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the abundance of butterflies in Macedonia, the latter ob- 

 serving also that North Macedonia and Albania were among 

 the least known of European localities for Lepidoptera. 



Local forms of Agrias claudia. — Mr. G. Talbot ex- 

 hibited on behalf of Mr. J. J. Joicey a series of Agrias claudia, 

 Schulz, showing its distribution and local forms. These in- 

 clude the forms sahlkei, Hour., claudia, Schulz, and amazonica, 

 Stgr,, all from St. Jean de Maroni, French Guiana. A. claudia 

 is the Surinam race, and amazonica an Amazon race, which 

 are thus shown to occur in French Guiana as aberrations, 

 the form sahlkei representing the Guiana race. 



A transitional series may be shown to connect the various 

 races. 



The distribution of claudia follows the coast, river-valleys 

 and foot-hills. It ranges from Dutch Guiana in the north to 

 South Brazil in the south. It extends eastwards to Ecuador, 

 Peru and BoUvia. 



Some British Rhopalocera. — Dr. E. A. Cockayne ex- 

 hibited : — 



(1) A series of Pararge egeria, bred Nov. and Dec. 1916 

 and Jan. 1917 from ova laid by several females taken in 

 August, at Limber, N. Lincolnshire. They showed consider- 

 able variation. Most of them had very large yellow spots. 

 One female had a great extension of the yellow colour and 

 thin scaling over the central portions of all four wings. One 

 underside aberration was very dark with a deep brown band 

 on the hind-wing. 



(2) An aberration of Polygoma c-alhum taken by Lord 

 Garrick in Sept. 1916 in Montgomeryshire, the hind-wings 

 being nearly black and the fore-wings with costal spots 

 united into a crescent. 



(3) A Gynandromorph of Polyommatus icarus, a dark 

 female except for stripe and blue scales, with androconia 

 from the base to the termen of the left fore-wing; taken at 

 Royston, Aug. 1916. 



(4) A Gynandromorph of P. icarus with a stripe of bright 

 blue scales on the right fore-wing ; no androconia ; taken at 

 Folkestone, June 1915. 



(6) A female Agriades coridon with one hind-wing marked 



