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shire, and read notes on the larval habits. They fed mainly on 

 lichen and lettuce. — Mr. Newman, a cm-ious specimen of " blue," 

 which it was suggested might be a natural hybrid between A.coridon 

 and P. icarus or .4. thetis and P. icarus, and also a male Pohjgonia 

 c-alhum with yellow ground, of which ten others had been reared. — 

 Mr. Sich, Limenitis popuU, taken by Mr. E. Sich in Austria. — Mr. 

 Moore, Perrhyhis injrrha from Callao, Peru. — Mr. Turner, a terato- 

 logical specimen of Danais limniace with a long indentation in the 

 dwarfed left fore wing. — Mr. Buxton, a box of teratological speci- 

 mens, including a number of species with the left hind wing dwarfed 

 or missing. — Mr. Barnett, a series of Acidalia rusticata from Erith. — 

 Mr. E. Adkin read the Eeport of the Conference of Delegates of the 

 Corresponding Societies of the British Association. The remainder 

 of the evening was devoted to the exhibition of lantern slides by 

 Messrs. Lucas, Dennis, West, Tonge, and Main. 



November 2Uh, 1910.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — The Annual Exhibition of Varieties. — ^Mr. Piatt Barrett 

 exhibited a very long series of Melanargia i^herusa fi'om Sicily to 

 illustrate the variation of the species, and also of M. galathea to 

 show various Sicilian local forms. — -Mr. Sich, some of the more local 

 species of the genus Tinea, including T. fulvimitreUa, T. jjicarella, 

 T. confusella, &c. — Mr. R. Adkin, a series of Eastbourne PolyommatiLS 

 icarus, contrasting the spring and autumn females, showing strong 

 development of the red markings, and including a fine under side 

 aberration. He also showed a short series of hybrid Nyssia zonaria 

 and Biston hirtaria, males and females. — Mr. Tonge, some extremely 

 dark smoky CosmotricJie potatoria bred from Deal larvae, a Brenthis 

 euphrosyne with pale chocolate brown ground, from Polegate, several 

 Agrotis exclaviationis in which a large black blotch replaced the 

 usual discal markings, and some excellent enlarged photographs of 

 eggs of lepidoptera.- — ^Dr. T. A. Chapman, a long series of Pararge 

 egeria to show the great range of variation in Western and South 

 Western Europe. — Messrs. A. Harrison and H. Main, several series 

 of mainly bred Boarmia repandata to show the local variation in the 

 North, South, and West of England and the West of Ireland. — Mr. 

 Main, on behalf of Mr. Gottmann, various forms of Vanessa io, 

 Euvanessa antiopa, and Aglais itrticce in the province of Yenesei, 

 Siberia, extremely like the forms so frequently produced of late in 

 temperature experiments, and of which Mr. W. Schmassmann ex- 

 hibited a considerable number for comparison. — Mr. W. J. Lucas, 

 the English trap-door spider, Atypits affinis, and several of its silken 

 tubes, with a Pterostychus madidus discovered in one of them, and a 

 small collection of butterflies taken by Patrol-leader S. F. Irwin, on 

 his visit to Canada with Sir F. Baden Powell, including E. antiopa, 

 Anosia plexippus, &c. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten, a line bred series of 

 Diauthoicia litteago var. barrettii from Devon, Tapinostola extrema 

 bred from Northampton, and a specimen of Leucania l-alhum. — Dr. 

 Hodgson, groups of varieties of British Rhopalocera and Anthrocerids 

 to show somewhat extreme divergence of variation in each of several 

 species, and also to show convergence of species in their variation. — 

 Mr. A. E. Gibbs, the various Palsearctic forms of Papilio machaon, 

 including a fine large britannicus, an aitrantiaca, and spring and 



