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Lepidoptera : — Stigmonota travulana, one specimen, with the 

 costa less spotted than usual ; Lozopera heatricella, six examples 

 together with the pupa-skins protruding from a stem of Fasti- 

 naca sativa ; Feronea cristana, two examples of a very fine 

 variety ; Cledeobia angustaUs, two deeply coloured examples ; 

 Crambus inquinatellus, var. ; Eudorea duhitalis var. inyratellct, 

 two examples; and EndotrichaJlammeaUs, four examples of a 

 dark variety. 



Ml'. McLachlan showed four examples of Deilephila lineata, 

 taken by Mr. E. W. Hainworth at Victor, Colorado, at an 

 elevation of 9000 ft., on July 23rd, 1899 ; also an ash-tAvig 

 which had been girdled by hornets, the observation of this 

 curious fact having been made by Mr. W. C. Boyd, of 

 Oheshvint, from whom he received the twig. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited specimens oi Erehia Jlavofasci- 

 ata taken at Campolungo at an elevation of 7000 ft. He 

 stated that the species occurred only in those places where 

 there was an outcrop of dolomitic strata belonging to the 

 crystalline schists, and was not met with elsewhere at that 

 elevation, nor was it to be found in association with the same 

 strata at lower levels. Some rare plants occur in the locality, 

 but he did not know whether any particular species of grass, 

 which might serve as the food-plant, was restricted to the 

 .same area. 



In further reference to this species. Dr. Chapman remarked 

 that the yellow fascia underneath seemed strange in an 

 Erehia, but it may be noted that in other species of the genus, 

 as for instance ceto or medusa, the yellow of the ocelli varies 

 so much, that in some specimens it would, with a little further 

 expansion, be converted into a similar fascia. Fsodos alpinaria 

 flies abundantly along with Erehia flavofasciata, and when the 

 latter species delays putting in an appearance, one is sometimes 

 deceived by a specimen of cdpinaria, or even by one of C. 

 arcania, with its pale straw-coloured band in the same position. 

 What the jjrecise use and signification of the black and yellow 

 colours seen in alpinaria and Jlavofasciata (and Catastia 

 auriciliella and some Ccenonymphas might be included) is not 

 very evident, but some relation probably subsists between 

 these species or between them and their common habitat. 



