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New Forest ; also series of Orthosia upsilon, Miselia oxyacaniha, Tanio- 

 campa instabilis, and T. opima, from Epping, the latter including very 

 dark specimens. — Mr. Prout stated that larvae of L. exigua, kept in a 

 warm room, had pupated twenty days after emergence from the egg. 



November 6th. — Dr. G. G. C. Hodgson exhibited Thera juniperata 

 from Surrey, and a long series of Lyccena agon from Witherslack and 

 Ashdown Forest, including an almost grey male, and several aberrant 

 under sides. — Mr. G. H. Heath, Heliothis peltigera, Sandown, Septem- 

 ber, 1906, and Hadeiia proteus, closely resembling Newman's third 

 figure, from same locality. — Mr. L. W. Newman, a long series of 

 Ghrysophanus (Polyommatus) phlceas, Bexley, September and October, 

 1906, including a golden-coloured specimen, several intermediates be- 

 tween this form and type, and examples of striated, brick-red, and 

 almost white under sides. — Mr. V. E. Shaw, Asthena blomeri from 

 Ohalfont Road, June, 1906. — The evening was devoted to the exhibi- 

 tion and exchange of members' duplicates. 



November 20th. — Messrs. L. A. E. Sabine and H. B. Whitehouse 

 were elected members of the Society. — Mr. S. J. Bell exhibited two 

 broods of Hemerophila abruptaria, bred from pupae received from Mr. E. 

 Harris. Brood A, from light female and dark male ex light female and 

 dark male, yielded 80 per cent, dark and 20 per cent, light ; brood B, 

 from dark female and male ex dark female and light male, yielded 

 96 per cent, dark and 4 per cent, light. Brood A consisted of 48 per- 

 cent, male and 52 per cent, female, but in brood B there were 66 per 

 cent, female and only 34 per cent. male. In over one hundred speci- 

 mens shown there was nothing approaching to an intermediate form. 

 — Rev. 0. R. N. Burrows, nine Kpunda lutulenta, the only examples of 

 the grey form found among some two hundred specimens taken at 

 Mucking. — Mr. J. A. Clark, Agrotis ashworthii, North Wales, August, 

 1906 ; and series of H. abruptaria, including a gynandromorphous 

 specimen. — Mr. G. R. Garland, on behalf of Mr. Pickett, long series 

 of bred H. abruptaria — first, second, and third broods of type, and dark 

 forms from Clapton, including a small slate-coloured male. — Mr. G. H. 

 Heath, Cerastis spadicea, Sandown, October, 1906, with pale submar- 

 ginal line strongly marked. — Mr. L. W. Newman, Zygcena minos from 

 North Wales and Oban, June, 1903 ; also a Zyyazna taken at Oban at 

 the same time, having six spots on fore wings, but with the fluffy body 

 characteristic of Z. minos. — Mr. L. B. Prout, aberrations of Aporophylla 

 austral is, Sandown, September, 1906, including strongly marked males 

 and female of rare ab. ingenua ; also six examples of Acidalia immorata, 

 bred as a partial second brood from Lewes ova. — Mr. V. E. Shaw, long 

 series of H. abruptaria from Holloway, Clapton, and Bexley. including 

 many dark specimens. — In the course of a discussion on II. abruptaria 

 it was made evident that the dark form had long been known in the 

 Clapton district, where Mr. E. Harris took the female from which 

 most of the dark specimens exhibited were descended, and that this 

 form was apparently gaining ground there. — S. G. Bell, Hon. Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — The usual 

 monthly meeting of this Society was held at the Royal Institution, 

 Liverpool, on November 19th, 1906, Mr. R. Wilding, Vice-President, 

 in the chair. — A paper was communicated by Mr. J. Collins, of Oxford, 



