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bred from pai'ents taken in Delaniere Forest. He said that 

 the proportion in breeding was as follows : — grey form, 25 % ; 

 var. rohsoni, 51 % ; and var. thompsoni, 24 %, 



VOSGES, AND AIJERHANT BlUTISH BUTTERFLIES. Mr. A. E. 



GiBBS brought for exhibition a case containing (a) a series of 

 JEveres argiades, taken this year at various altitudes in tlie 

 Vosges region, showing a fine large form ; {b) Lycxna hellaryas, 

 a 9 from South Devon, with the wings on the left side, especi- 

 ally the secondary, splashed and streaked with male colora- 

 tions ; (c) Lyceena icarus, S , also taken in South Devon, 

 measuring only 19 mm. in expanse; and {d) an example 

 of Chrysophanus phktas, approaching on the right side 

 ab. schviidtii ; the ground colour of the primary being 

 silvery-white, with the exception of a broad streak of 

 copper colour extending from the base of the wing, where 

 it is widest to the transvei'se row of black spots : hind-wings 

 slightly caudated ; taken at Harpenden, Herts, by a school- 

 boy, August 11th, 1906. 



Forms of Erebia and LvciENA from Germany, — JNIr, E. M. 

 Dadd exhibited specimens of Erebia Ugea from various German 

 localities, amongst others from Neundorf in the Glazer Ge- 

 berge, where a small series of E. euryale was also obtained. 

 This latter species is said to differ from E. Ugea in being 

 smaller, in having no white pupils to the black spot.s, and 

 further in showing scarcely any white on the under sides of 

 the hind-wings. Although all specimens taken had four spots 

 on the fore-wings, it is said to sometimes have three. Also a 

 short series of the forms ocellaris, and extrema collected by 

 Mr, Esselbach at San Martino di Carozza among typical var. 

 adyte. 



The forms oceZZaris and eicf?"ema are referred to in Staudinger's 

 catalogue, as also the new work by Seitz, to euryale ; the form 

 adyte to Ugea. Both these forms have only three spots on the 

 fore-wings, only one single female out of over one hundred 

 specimens of adyte in the exhibitor's collection having a faint 

 indication of the fourth spot. With i-egard to the examples 

 shown of adyte taken at Zermatt and Pontresina, among the 

 Pontresina adyte was a single specimen which might be 

 placed amongst the ocellaris without the slightest hesitation ; 



