(hiv) 
the Rev. W. Claxton, all of aberrant forms, and including 
Anchocelis pistacina, ab. serina, Esp., and ab. venosa, Haw.; Noctua 
wanthoyrapha of the dark greyish-fuscous type form and its 
ab. cohasa, Herr.-Schiiff; Hadena protea of the yellowish- 
green type form ; Agrotis exclamationis, ab. picea, Haw., 
AXylophasia hepatica, ab. characterea, Hiib., Misclia oxyacanthe, 
ab. capucina, Mill., and a fine mottled Hadena thalassina. He 
remarked that the interest of these aberrations consisted 
chiefly in their being taken so near London, where the usual 
forms of these species ran in other directions. 
He also exhibited for Mr. J. Merrin : 
1. A diminutive specimen of Lycena arion, taken on the 
Cotswold Hills in the middle of June after a dry spring, 
which probably led to the starving of the food-plant. 
2. A specimen of Aylais urtice with a silvery costal spot 
on the underside of the forewings. It was bred among a 
number of others which showed no tendency to vary in the 
same direction. 
3. Melitwa aurinia, taken in a swampy meadow near 
Gloucester during the last five or six years. The undersides 
showed considerable variation, some being of an uniform tint, 
z.e., Without any creamy markings, others with the creamy 
basal spots reduced to a minimum, others in which they 
occupied the whole space and united with the central creamy 
band, leaving the fulvous only as small spots. One specimen 
had the underside of the hindwings with a wide creamy 
transverse band extending from the centre to the hind margin, 
the basal half being fulvous. 
4, Anexample of Syrichthus malva, ab. taras, taken near 
Gloucester. 
Mr. Kirxanpy exhibited a complete series of species of the 
genus Notonecta, L., specimens of the larva and imago of the 
very rare Pedinocoris macronyx, Mayr., from Arizona, and 
specimens of Antipalocoris marshalli, Scott, from Ceylon, 
previously recorded from Corsica alone; also both sexes of 
Metrocoris stali (Dohrn) from Ceylon, the male of which was 
noticeable as having the anterior femora incrassated, and of 
Diaprepocoris brachycephala, Kirk., from Australasia, a con- 
necting link between the Corixine and Micronectine. 
