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liave beeli favourable to the development of Sawfliet! generally. 

 Out of doors, in their natural habitats, it has seemed to me 

 that all through last year both larvae and imagines of sawflies- 

 were very much less abundant than usual. I often walked. 

 many miles without finding a single specimen on plants which' 

 usually produce them in quantities. 



It would interest me to know whether Fellows who have^ 

 been rearing larvae of the same or other Orders have had any 

 experiences at all similar to my own. 



Aberrations of British Lepidoptera. — Mr. H. J. Turner 

 exhibited on behalf of Mr. Thos. Greer, of Stewartstown, Co. 

 Tyrone, the following series of aberrations of British Lepidoptera. 

 EucJdoe cardamines. (1) (^ ab. marginata. (2) o' With the 

 orange blotch streaked with black scaling. (3) (^ Small form. 

 (4) (^ Large form. (5) ? ab. radiata. (6) $ With slight orange 

 streaks on the R. fore-wing above and below. 

 Melitaea aurinia. $ Dull obscure form. 

 Pararge megera. (1) S With apical ocellus reduced to a* 

 small dot. (2) S With ocellus of fore-wing apex duplicated, 

 and with the four fascia of the costa reduced to two. 



Polyommatus icarus. (1) Gynandromorph : R. side ?,, 

 L. side cJ. (2) cJ With faint red marginal markings on hind- 

 wings above, ab. icariaus below. (3) $ With marginal red. 

 spots extended and band-like. 



All the specimens were from Co. Tyrone. 

 Mr. AsHBY exhibited some butterflies from Piedmont aaid 

 said that he considered the Val di Bartelemi, close to Nhs, to> 

 be one of the best collecting-grounds in Northern Italy. 



Mr. J. H. DuRRANT, on behalf of Dr. Gahan, exhibited some- 

 living examples of the Cassid beetle, Aspidomorpha sanctae- 

 crucis, from India ; the causes of the brilliant metallic colora- 

 tion of this beetle were discussed by Mr. Arrow and by Mr. 

 WiLLOUGHBY Ellis, and Dr. Neave commented on the habits 

 of similar si^ecies in Africa. 



Paper. 

 The following paper was read : 



" Two new British species of Hydroptila" by Martin E. 

 Mosely. 



