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Donation. 

 Commander J. J. Walker announced that Mr. Charles D. 

 Douglas had presented to the Society a framed photograph of 

 his father, the late Mr. John William Douglas. A vote of 

 thanks to the donor was carried unanimously. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. H. Rowland-Brown exhibited a small collection of 

 Erebias taken this year in the Pyrenees, including Erebia 

 lefebvrei, with the varieties pyrenaza, Obth., from Mt. 

 Canigou, E. Pyrenees, and var. intermedia, Obth., from 

 Gavarnie. He also showed for comparison E. alecto, Hb., 

 var. nicholli, Obth., from Campiglio, which at one time was 

 supposed to be identical with lefebvrei, then considered the 

 Pyrenean form of E. melas. With them were also shown 

 specimens of E. gorgone from the Lac de Gaube, Cauterets, and 

 from Gavarnie, and E. gorge from the same localities. Mr. 

 Rowland-Brown remarked that whereas lefebvrei appeared 

 to be confined to the stony detritus just below the snow line, 

 where it flew with gorge, he only found gorgone on the 

 grass pastures at an altitude of about 6,000 feet ; and there 

 it occurred in the Vallee d'Estaubd in some numbers on 

 July 23rd. 



The Vice-President, who showed a diagram of the clasps 

 of lefebvrei and melas, said that in a previous year of the 

 Transactions he had published the results of his anatomic 

 examinations of the species, which showed that lefebvrei ap- 

 proached p'onoe and neoridas, while the clasps of melas and 

 nerine (diagram also exhibited) were practically identical. 

 He also drew attention to the remarkable superficial resem- 

 blance of the under-side of the $ gorgone to that of the $ 

 goante, a species not hitherto recorded from the Pyrenees. 



Mr. Rowland-Brown included in his exhibition short series 

 of Lycxna orbitidus from the Central Alps, L. orbitulus, var. 

 oberthuri, Stgr., L. pyrenaica, and L. pheretes from the Brenner 

 and Cortina districts. He said that with regard to the first 

 three butterflies his observations confirmed those made by 

 M. Eonclou in his " Catalogue Eaisonnee des Lepidopteres des 

 Pyrenees," the orbitulus, which he found on the Col de 



