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wings rounded, and those having a sinuated margin. Most of 

 the northern forms belong to the former group, but one notched- 

 winged species, which I am showing — PJiyciodes texana — extends 

 as far north as Texas. I also exhibit some specimens belonging 

 to the peculiar group in which the wings are of an almost 

 unicolorous fulvous tint, viz., Phyciodes fraijilis, from South 

 America, and its Central American representative, which has the 

 sub-specific name of (jtiatamalina. 



Mr. B. S. Ciirwen exhibited short series of most of the European 

 species of the genus MelihEa. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited the following species of the 

 genus Phi/ciodes : P. aniazonica, P. thyinetns, P. lelex, P. texana, 

 and P. lansdorfii ; also Coatlantuna narva and C. jmcile from South 

 and Central America. 



Mr. J. Piatt Barrett exhibited series of Melitaa athalia and 

 M. didyiiia from Sicily. 



Mr. Newman remarked that in breeding il/. anrinia, from 

 Carlisle, he had as many as 90% of his larvae produce ichneumons, 

 and quite 70 or 80% from Irish larvae had done so. 



Mr. Eowland-Brown's experience in breeding M. anrinia agreed 

 with Mr. Newman's, and he had found the larvae of M. didyma also 

 extensively ichneumoned. He called attention to the -fact that 

 many specimens of Melitaa from the Isere district of the French 

 Alps, were very light in colour, while in the Samoussy district 

 East of Paris very dark suffused forms were more prevalent. 



FEBRUARY 2eth, 1914. 



The feature of the evening was a special Exhibition of Lantern 

 Slides. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited four photographs of mistletoe on 

 Scots pine, taken at Bourg d'Oisans, in the Dauphiny Alps, and 

 communicated the following notes : — " Mistletoe grows especially 

 on apple; this is markedly the case in England, as in Herefordshire, 

 where it is very abundant and supports the beautiful tortrix, 

 Ditula iruodiana, Bair., and the hemipteron, Anthocoris visci, Dug., 

 neither found elsewhere. In the plains of France, as may be well 

 seen in travelling to Paris, it is most abundant on poplar, as also 

 in our South-eastern counties. Doubtless, because these (apple 

 and poplar) are, in each case, the most abundant of the trees 

 it affects. In the lower Alpine regions, and elsewhere, it is most 



