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Noctna aiifinr : two forms bred from wild larvae ; one June, 1914, 

 and the other June, 1913, the latter having a very " agrotid " 

 appearance. 



T)i/ih(/)ia cones : a " washed-out " looking specimen bred from 

 Wicken Fen larva 1913 ; and a specimen bred in 1913 from a 

 Wimbledon larva without the black band on hindwmgs, but with 

 the usual blackish suffusion at the base and apex of these wings 

 present. 



Melliiiia circellaris (fernKiinea): a rich red form and a pale slatey 

 form ; also a variety with ground colour light orange and all 

 transverse lines a dull black ; the nervures towards the outer margin 

 are also marked with black, giving the insect a streaky appearance. 

 The black lower portion of the reniform mark is not so distinct as 

 in the typical specimens. All from Box Hill, 1914. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited two boxes of butterflies of the 

 genus Painlio from the Indian and Austro-Malayan Kegions in- 

 cluding /'. hector, P. theseiis, P. iliphiliis, P. antipJius, P. aristolochue, 

 P. jioli/ilaiiion, P. polytes and its allied forms, P. nicanor, P. 

 poli/doriifi, and P. alphenor. 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited a typical male and a totally melanic 

 female of Biston hirtaria, bred from dug pupst;, Finchley, 1914. 

 Mr. Prout has identified the form as v&v. /ton aria, Haw., of which 

 only two other specimens are known, one taken in Silesia and the 

 other is in the National Collection, the latter being brown instead 

 of black. 



Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited the lepidoptera taken by him 

 during a two months' stay in Russia in the early summer of 1914, 

 of which an account has been given in the Kntoniolofiist, p. 233 ct 

 feq. (1914). 

 I. Species that do not occur further west than Russia : 



Scolitajitides pylaon, Glaucopsyche ctdestina. Satyr us antlie, 

 and Hesperia tessellnm. 

 II. Species that are only rare in districts further west than Eastern 

 Russia : 



Colias erate, Polycunmatus eroides, Neptis hicilla, Erebia afer, 

 Hesperia cribrellum, Cccnonympha leander, and Pararge 

 clymene. 

 III. Species that occur in Central Europe and which present different 

 forms in Russia : — 



Anthocharis helia, Euchlo'e cardamines var, volyensis, Sheld., 

 Zeyris euplieme, Callophrys rubi var. scJiamyl, Sheld., Polyom- 



