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Mr. Tutt was unable to separate the various broods, and 

 stated that for this reason much of the scientific interest that 

 would otherwise attach to the exhibit was lost. Its chief 

 interest seemed to be its demonstration of the fact that the 

 extreme aberrations of this species could be produced by in- 

 breeding from comparatively normal forms, a fact of all the 

 more importance considering how much uncertainty there had 

 been as to the real origin of the race which was first sent out 

 from Yorkshire and is now to be seen in many collections of 

 British insects. 



He also exhibited for Mr. Eaynor an aberration of Epine- 

 phele tithonus, taken at Hazeleigh in August 1898, in which 

 the bright fulvous areas were pale yellow in colour ; and a 

 somewhat strange aberration of Noctua rubi which showed 

 considerable difference from the normal form in the arrange- 

 ment of the transverse lines of the forewings. 

 , Mr. Tutt then exhibited a number of closely allied forms 

 of Anthrocera, received from M. Oberthiir of Rennes, and 

 comprising among others the following : — A. medicaginis, Dup., 

 and A. medicaginis, Bdv., from the Alpes Maritimes (Nice), 

 May 1897, A. charon, Dup., from Lai'che, Aug. 1896, and 

 A. charon, Bdv., taken at Vernet-les- Bains in 1895. The first 

 two of these, as probably also the fourth, Mr. Tutt referred 

 to medicaginis, Bdv. (Mon. des Zyg.), considering them to be 

 possibly forms of Anthrocera lonicerce ; while the specimens 

 of A. charon, Dup., were almost indistinguishable from typical 

 A. lonicerce. Having shown also some examples of A. seriziati 

 from Collo, and one, with very dark hind wings, from Bona, 

 he said he had no hesitation in referring these to Anthrocera 

 palustris, as an extreme southern form. He called attention also 

 to the fact that the A. trifolii, found flying in the dry upland 

 meadows in Algeria, was quite indistinguishable from those 

 found in the meadows of Kent, whilst the marsh A. palustris 

 {seriziati), although greatly modified in the intensity of its 

 coloration in Algeria, carried the same f acies as the A . palustris 

 from Kent and the Isle of Wight. He was inclined to think 

 that A. 2icilustris was specialised to Lotus uUginosus as a food- 

 plant. Examples of Anthrocera hippocrepidis from Lardy and 

 Digne, and the six-spotted A. charon oi Boisduval's " Mon. des 



