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Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. F. P. Pascoe exhibited Ledra anrita, L., captured on an oak at 

 Wimbledon ; Nobis brevipennis, Hahn, from Darenth Wood, off oak, and 

 Arceopus pulchellus, Curtis, captured on Scirptts lacustris, at Sheerness. 



Mr. E. P. Collett, who was present as a visitor, remarked that he had 

 captured a single specimen of L. anrita at Hollington Wood, near Hastings. 



Mr. T. Wood exhibited a specimen of Malthodes, sp. ? which he had 

 taken at Dulwich this year. Dr. Power considered it to be a new species, 

 allied to M. atomus, Thorns., but much larger. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby, on behalf of M. Alfred Wailly who was present 

 as a visitor, exhibited a large box containing numerous bred specimens 

 of various silk-producing Bombycidce, &c, viz.: — Samia Cecropia, Linu., 

 S. Qloveri, Strick., and a hybrid between these two species, S. Promethea, 

 Dru., Telea Polyphemus, Cram., and Hyperchiria Io, Fabr., all North 

 American species. Also a specimen of Darapsa Myron, Cram., with its 

 pupa-case, which was found in M. Wailly 's garden at Tudor Villa, Nor- 

 biton, and whose presence there could not be accounted for; specimens of 

 a species of Hemaris which Mr. Kirby considered to belong to H. diffinis, 

 Harr., several specimens of Apatura Clyton, Boisd., with their pupa-cases, 

 reared on five small trees of Celtis orientalis grown in one pot; five speci- 

 mens of Attacus Cynthia, Dru., reared most successfully on the lilac and 

 laburnum trees in M. Wailly 's garden; a long series of varieties of the 

 Indian Antheraa Paphia, Cram. (Attacus Mylitta, Dru.,), varying in colour 

 from bright golden yellow to the darkest brown or grey ; a pair of the giant 

 Himalayan race of Attacus Atlas, Linn., measuring over ten inches in 

 expanse of wings, and a male of the small Ceylon race. One extraordinary 

 specimen of a Samia was very notable ; on this Mr. Kirby read the following 

 note : — 



Abnormal specimen of the genus Samia. 



" This remarkable specimen, which has puzzled every entomologist who 

 has seen it, was bred by M. Alfred Wailly from a cocoon received from 

 some part of North America. It may be a hybrid between S. Cecropia 

 and some other species ; but if so it is so different from all the other 

 known species that it is difficult to guess with what it could have been 

 crossed. It is equally difficult to imagine that it is a new species. The 

 specimen is a female, and equals the largest specimens of S. Cecropia in 

 size, measuring fully 6f inches in expanse ; and the wings are more 

 rounded and less oblique than in Cecropia. The body resembles that of 

 Cecropia, except that the abdomen is banded with yellowish grey and black. 

 The base of the fore wings is brown, thickly scaled with white towards the 

 costa ; below this is a brick-red blotch, longer and narrower than in 



