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;at Lewishaiii and at Eastbourne. He then read a short paper on 

 the history and life-history of the species (p. 1). 



In the discussion which followed, Mr. Porritt mentioned that he 

 had taken T. pallescentella, with several other species of Tinea, from 

 old sheep's wool in the Huddersfield warehouses ; and Mr. Sich 

 said that he had several times taken the species at Chiswick, also 

 that it had sometimes occurred in circumstances that might lead 

 one to suppose that the larvfe had been granivorous. 



MARCH 21th, 1913. 



Mr. B. H. Smith presented two specimens of Phnjxus livornica 

 to the collections. 



Mr. Colthrup exhibited a further series of photographs taken by 

 himself of insects at rest, and of the eggs of shore birds in nature. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs exhibited a number of Nymphalids, especially 

 ■of the genera Argynnis and ^leliUra, taken by him in the Balkans 

 in the early summer of 1912, and communicated the following 

 notes : — 



"NYMPHALms FROM THE Balkans.— For my exhibit to-night I have 

 put together specimens of all the Argynnid species I took in the 

 Balkans last summer, and I am able to show you seventeen species, 

 .as well as several varieties and aberrations. Many of them are 

 perfectly familiar, the majority of the species bemg common 

 European insects, and several are found in the British Isles. 

 There is first of all the largest European " fritillary," Dri/as 

 imndora, the specimens I brought home being from Mostar, in the 

 Hercegovina, where it is apparently rather common. Its 

 congener, B. paphia, I saw in many places, but the only speci- 

 men I appear to have captured comes from Jablaniea, in the same 

 province, at which place I also found Anii/nni^ adippe not 

 uncommonly, there being among them a good proportion of var. 

 cleodoxa, in which the silver is absent from the underside of the 

 hindwings. A. aglaia was less common, and the same remark 

 applies to A. niobe var. en's, one specimen of the latter insect 

 taken at Mostar being, I think, unusually large. Issnn'a lathojiia 

 was a butterfly often met with ; I found plenty of them on the 

 hills around Cettinge. Brenthis euphrusi/ne I saw only in one place, 

 a solitary female occurring at Cettinge on June 9th, but the species 

 was evidently over at that date. An insect which I was pleased 

 to get was B. hecate, which appears to be rare. I only caught 

 two specimens, a male taken at Jajce, in Bosnia, on .July 4th, and 



