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1. The number, presence or absence, and development of the eye- 



spots. 



2. The development and depth of colour of the rust-red areas on 



the fore- and hindwings. 



B. The general character of the ground colour and mottling of 

 the bands of the hindwings on the under-surface. 



My series of captures of 1913 seemed, on the whole, to be larger 

 insects than any of those series which I previously possessed, a 

 large specimen among the latter being only exceptional," 



Mr. W. West (Greenwich) exhibited three 'drawers from the 

 Society's collection of British Lepidoptera, comprising Pyrales and 

 Tortrices to show the additions made through the kindness of Mr. 

 Dawson. 



Mr. J. Platt-Barrett exhibited a series of Coccyx strobilella bred 

 from cones of spruce picked up at W. Wickham some weeks ago, 

 and also a cone showing the pupa case. He reported having seen 

 Celastrina an/ioliis on April 1st in a tram-car in S.E. London. 



APRIL 23rd, 1914. 

 A Special Exhibition of Orders other than Lepidoptera. 



Mr. C. W. Colthrup exhibited a large collection of British land 

 shells collected by him, mainly in Surrey, Kent, and Sussex. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited the following large and con- 

 spicuous species of exotic coleoptera : — Golofa porteri, Columbia ; 

 Saijra buquettii, S. America ; S. splendido, Burmah ; *S'. femorata, 

 Burmah ; S. riniosipennu, Burmah ; Chrijsochroa vittata, Burmah ; 

 Enchroiiia ffiyantea, S. America; Laiiiprina aiirata, Australia; 

 Cassida sexpiiatulata, Brazil; Fhitininti nnbilis, Brazil; Stentocera 

 orientalis, Burmah ; Chrysodema auiofoceata, Burmah ; Traclnjderes. 

 succinctns, S. America; Cldorida festiva, S. America; and Pur- 

 puricennes sarujninolentia^, S. America (?). He also showed many 

 species of exotic hymenoptera. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited a collection of Swiss coleoptera, in- 

 cluding more than forty species of Longicornia, also Mycetina 

 cruciata, Eros aurora, ['yropteritti a/finis, Kiiiiis Jiirtiis (a pair), and 

 many species of Phytophaga. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs exhibited insects received from British 

 Honduras with the collections of butterflies and moths which had 

 been sent him from that colony. There were included two large 



