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at St. Moritz, Engadine. On the upper side the usual black mark- 

 ings are symmetrically run together and extended in area to form 

 an irregular transverse black banding across all four wings, the sub- 

 marginal orange lunules barely and most indefinitely defined, the 

 black veining, wherever it is at all apparent, widely emphasized, 

 and the usually wide band of orange inside the lunules only marked 

 by small unconnected remnants. On the underside the forewings 

 with the black spots run together to form a very irregular transverse 

 band, no remnants of black lunules on the hind margin, no trace of 

 silver at the apex of wing ; on the underside of the lower wing the 

 basal spots are united radially into three large silver blotches, the 

 middle transverse row of silver spots are completely suppressed, the 

 silver lunules of the outer margin are more or less extended basally 

 into streaks, and only a slight indication of black scaling to the 

 outer edge of these silver spots. 



Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited a large selection of specimens 

 bred from Irish parents, including series of Pieris napi, with very 

 dark and yellow flushed examples, P. rapw, Polyonimatus icarus 

 with brilliant blue females, Dryas paphia, Melitma aurinia, Hip- 

 parchia sew^^e with many very pale examples, etc.; four specimens 

 of Nenria reticulata (saponarm) bred from Cork larvae, in which 

 the usual dull ochreous ground colour is replaced with a lovely pink 

 suffusion ; a series of Diantlicccia luteago var. barrettii, bred from 

 Cork and Devon larvae and dug pupae; a very beautiful varied 

 series of Pachnobia hyperborea [alpina), bred from dug pupfe at 

 Eannoch ; series of Ayriades coridon females from Herts, including 

 the var. semuynyrapha, intermediates and other extreme forms ; a 

 bred series of the yellow var, rossica of Callimorpha dominula from 

 Kent ; a series of bred Strymon prnni from Huntingdon ; wild col- 

 lected cocoons with living pupae of Pharetra euphorbice {myriccB) 

 and Dicranura bicnspis, showing the wonderful protective resem- 

 blance to the environment; eight out of the ten specimens of Gastro- 

 pacha ilicifolia bred from ova laid by the female captured at Cannock 

 Chase last year, with preserved larvae of the species ; bred series of 

 Agrotis ashworthii, A. agathina, A. limiyera, Ptychopoda [Acidalia) 

 contiguaria, and Boarniia repandata from Wales; a bred series, second 

 brood, of Eiipithecia innotata from Durham ; series of Gnophos 

 myrtillata (obfuscaria) and Anarta cordigera from Braemar and 

 Eannoch respectively; a series of Heliotkis peltigera, showing the 

 difi"erent facies of the spring (June), probably immigrant, specimens 

 and those bred and captured in autumn (September) ; and the two 



