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elected members. — Mr, South, on behalf of Mr. Fowler, of Eingwood, 

 exhibited varieties of tlie female of Lithosia deplana : (1) grey in colour, 

 with yellow costa extending to tlie fringe = var. ochreata ; (2) with 

 fore wings almost as yellow as L. sororcida, and the hind wings only 

 slightly tinged with grey ; they were from the New Forest. Mr. Tutt 

 pointed out that variation in the Lithosiids took one of two directions, 

 either a general darkening or an intensification of the yellow. — Mr. 

 Dennis reported that on October 9th all stages of Cijanirh argiolus 

 were to be found at Earl's Colne, Essex. — Mr. Turner, a number of 

 examples of llydriomena furcata {^Hijpsipctes sordidata) illustrative of 

 local forms, and remarked upon the inconvenience caused by the 

 continual change of the specific names. — Mr. B. W. Adkin, some 

 remarkable forms of Pachygastria [Bombyx) trifolii, bred from larvae 

 taken on the Scilly Islands. One female was conspicuously light in 

 colour, and the wedge-shaped markings of the fore wings of several 

 males were much enlarged. — Mr. Lucas showed a number of lantern- 

 sUdes illustrating (1) choice spots in the New Forest; (2) protective 

 resemblance in insects ; (3) various botanical characters of interest ; 

 and (4) some of the idiosyncrasies of collecting. 



November 13th. — The President in the chair. — Mr. Colthrup ex- 

 hibited a bred series of Lymantria monacha, originating from the New 

 Forest, and exhibiting considerable black suffusion. — Mr. R. Adkin had 

 had a number of larvte from the same source, but the few imagines he 

 bred were quite normal. — Messrs. Harrison and Main, long bred series 

 of Aylais (Vanessa) urtica from Eastbourne, Delamere Forest, and 

 Argyllshire, and contributed notes on the characters of the several 

 races. Those from the last-named locality were generally darker. — 

 Mr. R. Adkin, a series of Lyccena corydon from Eastbourne, taken 

 between Sept. 18th and Sept. 25th, and called attention to the fre- 

 quency of blue scaling in the females. He also showed melanic forms 

 of Acrunycta vienyanthidis from Selby, Yorkshire. — Mr. H. J. Turner, 

 (1) a bred series of HypsUophus martjinellns from Banstead Downs, 

 he also reported it from the Roman Road, Mickleham ; (2) a long and 

 very varied series of Fcedisca corticana, taken on a wet day in July in 

 Epping Forest ; he referred to the exceedingly perfect protective re- 

 semblance exhibited by the species, as well as to the great range of 

 variation ; (3) a female Pechyporjon barbalis, set to show the secondary 

 sexual characters existing in the extreme development of tufts of hairs 

 on the fore legs ; and (4) two varieties of Polyoinmatus teams from 

 Banstead, one, a small male, with all the basal spots of the under side 

 missing, the marginal markings very faint or suppressed, and only a 

 few of the submarginal ocelli remaining ; the second, a female, with 

 much-enlarged ocelli on the submargin. — Mr. Kaye, a fine female 

 variety of Fidonia (Uomaria, having the ground colour very light and 

 much increased in area at the expense of the dark bands; and a series 

 of Tiliacea aiirayo, bred from ova laid by the only female he had ever 

 captured, at Worcester Park, Surrey. — Mr. H. Moore read a paper 

 entitled "A Visit to the Forest of Arques (Dieppe)," and showed a 

 number of species of insects of various orders in illustration. Perhaps 

 the most interesting were a series of dark, small, and thinly scaled 

 Ccenonympha arcania, no doubt indicative of the fact that here the 

 species was near the limit of its area of distribution. — Dr. Chapman 



