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'Cumberland and the South. His larvte usually spent the winter, 

 in individual nests among moss. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited four bred specimens and a preserved 

 larva of JMellinia ( Xantlda ) ocdlaris, received for the Society's 

 Cabinet from Mr. H. Worsley-Wood, who says : — " It is but a 

 trifling return for three very pleasant evenings spent as a guest 

 in their rooms during the past twelve months." 



Mr. Curwen exhibited a series of Erehia ceto near the form ab. 

 obscura, from the Simplon Pass. They were mainly from Berisal 

 and the Laquinthal, quite a contrast to the brilliantly yellow- 

 marked form taken at Macugnagna, but not so dark as the Miirren 

 vbacura form. 



Mr. Carr exhibited (for Rev. F. M. B. Carr) a collection of 

 lepidoptera made in Stafl'ordshire and Mid-Wales during the past 

 year, including some nicely marked Acidalia )iianiinepunctata, 

 some with dark suffusion, and a beautifully banded form of 

 Melanippe tristata, in which the outer-marginal and basal areas 

 were very dark. 



Report of the Annual Conference of Delegates of 



Corresponding Societies to the British Association 



held on September 11th and 16th, 1913. 



The Eighty-third Annual Meeting of the " British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science," was held in Birmingham from 

 Wednesday, September 10th, to Wednesday, September 17th, 1913, 

 and the usual " Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies" 

 was held on the afternoons of Thursday 11th and Tuesday IGth, in 

 the Library of the Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical 

 Society, which had been placed at the disposal of the Delegates by 

 the courtesy of the Council of that Society. It was attended by 

 your delegate, Mr. Robert Adkin, who reports : — 



The Conference was opened by the reading of the Report of the 

 Committee. 



The Chairman, Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., then delivered 

 an address, his subject being the " Utility of Selection." It was a 

 .most interesting and instructive dissertation, and is commended to 



