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bred from parents taken in Delamere Forest. He said that 

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

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



VOSGES, AND ABERRANT BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. Mr. A. E. 



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

 Everes aryiades, taken this year at various altitudes in the 

 Vosges region, showing a fine lax"ge form ; (b) Lycsena bellargus, 

 a 5 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 Chrysophmius phleeas, approaching on the right side 

 ab. schmidtii ; 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 transverse row of black spots : hind-wings 

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

 boy, August 11th, 1906. 



Forms of Erebia and Lyc^na from Germany. — Mr. E. M. 

 Dadd exhibited specimens of Erebia ligea from various German 

 localities, amongst others from Nevindorf in the Glazer Ge- 

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

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

 smaller, in having no white pupils to the black spots, 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 ocellaris und. extrema are referred to in Staudinger's 

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

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

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

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

 indication of the fourth spot. With regard to the examples 

 shown of adyte taken at Zermatt and Pontresina, among the 

 Pontresina adi/te was a single specimen which might be 

 placed amongst the ocellaris without the slightest hesitation ; 



