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brood are much smaller and resemble those of Poh/nnunatus icarus, 

 being in size at least less like those of P. c!:tchen than those of P. 

 icarus are. 



MARCH 26«7i, 1914. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited the large coleopteron Archnn 

 centaunis, found dead in a garden at Blackheath. It was a native 

 of West Africa, and there seemed no information as to how it got 

 into the garden. 



He also exhibited the following butterflies from Burmah : — 

 Abi$ara neajJiron, Mijcalesis lepcha, and J7. nicotia, with the beauti- 

 ful chalcosiids, Chalcosia veiwm and C. zetica from the same 

 country. 



Mr. A. E. Tonge exhibited a long series of Colias erhixa of both 

 sexes, including four of the female var. Iielice, taken in the Reigate 

 district in the years 1877-8, when the species was so exceptionally 

 abundant over a large area of the British Islands, by Mr. Edwin 

 Ashby of Redhill. They had been lent by the Holmesdale Natural 

 History Society, in whose collection they were. There was very 

 little variation in the series. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited a short series of C. edtisa from 

 various localities in England, including female var. Iielice from 

 Dawlish, and bred specimens intermediate in general coloration 

 between the typical form and the var. helice. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs exhibited Colias ednaa from England, Vosges 

 Mts., Pyrenees, Alpes Maritimes, Corsica, Central Spain (with var. 

 pyrenaica), Central Italy, Sicily, Montenegro, Herzegovina, Bosnia 

 and Algeria ; Culias /iddii, from Central Asia; C. aurora, from the 

 Altai Mts. ; 6\ aurorina var. hddreichli, from Greece ; and C. 

 ronianovi, from Turkestan. He also showed the American species 

 C. eurytheme s,en. hiem. keewaydin, and Lesbia pyrrhothea. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a large number of examples of C. edusa 

 from the British Isles, many of them from the West of England, 

 and including numerous specimens of coloration intermediate 

 between the type and var. helice. 



Mr. Joy exhibited a large number of bred specimens of Colias 

 edusa, all large in size and including females with very small or 

 no blotches in the marginal bands of the forewings. 



Mr. Dunster exhibited specimens of Colias edusa, taken during 

 the past three years along the South Coast of England. 



Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited a series of 55 Coliab edusa and 



