( a) 
The collection contained about 4509 species, including 
35 Longicornia, about 20 Otiorrhynchus (the most charac- 
teristic beetles in the places visited), and many interesting 
Carabidex, Elateride, ete. 
He also exhibited about 85 species of Coleoptera from 
Cintra, Portugal, collected by Col. Yerbury, during the early 
spring of 1896, the most interesting of these being Carabus 
lusitanicus, 1°, 
Also, on behalf of Mr. W. H. Harwood, two specimens of 
the rare Zeugophora flavicollis, Marsh., from Colchester. 
Mr. Tutt exhibited for Mr. H. B. Prince some Lepidoptera 
from the Cheshire coast, and read the following notes :— 
‘‘These insects were captured on the Wallasey sandhills. 
Nyssia zonaria.—The examples are uniform at first sight, and 
yet, when carefully examined, exhibit considerable variation. 
In some specimens the darker portions of the wings are but 
faintly developed, and the specimens have a very pallid and 
unicolorous appearance. At the opposite extreme the trans- 
verse basal line is continued up to the costa, and the space 
between this and the next transverse line 1s filled in with dark 
grey shading, forming a more or less distinct band. In other 
specimens the basal transverse line is almost or quite obsolete, 
and leaves the whole area from the discoidal lunule to the 
base of the wing with only the two darker longitudinal 
neurational markings. On the hindwings there is an equal 
range of variation, the palest specimen having scarcely any 
trace of the three transverse bars which are very distinctly 
marked in the darkest specimens. The apterous females 
show no marked variation. Triphena orbona (comes).—A 
moderately variable series with nothing approaching the 
range of variation found among the Scotch specimens. The 
colour aberrations appear to cover the usual range reached in 
our southern and midland English counties. Noctua 
wanthographa.—Among these we get the usual range of 
yariation, extending from the pale grey ab. cohwsa, H.-5., 
to a form approaching the ab. obscura, Tutt, without reaching 
the range to which the Scotch specimens often attain. 
Triphena pronuba.—This series comprises some of the more 
usual forms but, taken as a whole, it tends to the darker 
