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Marshall, F.Z.S., and Mr. E. Shelford, M.A., F.L.S., 

 resigned. 



Exhibitions. 



Hungarian Butterflies. — Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited 

 series of the following butterflies collected by him at Budapest 

 and Herculesbad during the past summer : — Chrysojihanus 

 dispar, var. 7mtilus, C. alcijjhron, C. thersamon ; Pleheius ar- 

 gyrognomon, Polyommatus orion, gen. vern. oniata, Stgr. ; 

 Melitaea trivia ; Brenthis hecate ; and Pyrgus orhifer. 



Butterflies from Central Italy. — The Rev. G. Wheeler 

 exhibited three small cases of butterflies from Central Italy, 

 containing specimens ©f Melitaea x>ctrtlienie and M. phoebe, small 

 and with somewhat light ground-colour ; Hirsutina dolus, 

 Polyommatus meleager, with blue $ ; P. escheri, one $ being 

 much suffused Avith blue ; P. icarus, ab. celina, the ground- 

 colour being of deep " royal " blue ; Aricia astr-arche of extreme 

 calida form ; specimens of two broods of Plebeiios argus {aegon) 

 and the intervening brood of P. argyrognomon (argiis) ; a 5 

 Coenonympha pamphilus with a row of black spots on the upper- 

 side hind-wing ; four Melanargia galatea, one being ab. leuco- 

 melas two with obsolescent markings on the under-side, S '"^nd 

 $ , and the fourth unevenly marked, one side being almost 

 entirely, and the other only very partially suffused with black ; 

 and lastly five specimens of Agriades hybr. polonus, Zeller, 

 supposed to be hybrids between A. corydon and A. thetis 

 {bellargus), three of which were taken amongst the latter species 

 and two among the former, when A. thetis w-as quite over. 



Mr. J. W. TuTT stated that he had recently been engaged 

 in unravelling the history of Agriades hybr. jjolonus, ZelL, 

 as a Palaearctic insect. He noted that he had exhibited the 

 only British example yet kuown, at the meeting of the Eut. 

 Soc. London, held on April 11th, 1894, observing that he had 

 himself found it at Cuxton, Kent, where it flew in company 

 with A. thetis, and that it is undoubtedly a hybrid between 

 that species and A. coridon, the genitalia being similar and 

 the food plants identical. He further noted that a specimen 

 had been exhibited by Mr. Dadd at the meeting held on 

 October 21st, 1908. Zeller's original Posen example, now in 



