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reddish-brown fore wings flecked with irregular green patches and 

 hind wings of usual green colour except at the anal angle, the other 

 of normal coloration with wings dappled with irregular and symmetrical 

 reddish patches. — Mr. A. H. Shepherd, Erannis leucophaaria var. 

 fuscata from Huddersfield, and var. marmorinaria from Richmond 

 Park. — Mr. C. W. Simmons, Synopsis abruptaria from Holloway, 

 including many very dark examples, and an extraordinary herma- 

 phrodite, the right hand wings being those of an almost black male 

 and the left of typical light female. — Mr. A. W. Willsdon, T. opima 

 from Epping Forest district, including pale grey specimen with dark- 

 brown central fascia. — Mr. T. H. L. Grosvenor reported having found 

 a batch of Botnbyx rtibi ova on the wing of a dead jay in Ashdown 

 Forest. — S. J. Bell, Hon. Sec. 



Birmingham Entomological Society. — June 3rd, 1907. — Mr. 

 G. T. Bethune-Baker, President, in the chair. — Mr. E. C. Rossiter 

 again showed a long series of Tamiocampae bred from pupae dug near 

 Langley Green and Wyre Forest, to show how the species ran 

 into one another ; a large series of incerta, Hufn., at one end closely 

 resembled those of munda, Esp., and at the other end were with diffi- 

 culty separated from specimens of stabilis, View. ; stabilis, again, ran 

 into gracilis, F. ; and there were specimens on each boundary line 

 about which he found it difficult to decide. — Mr. H. Langley showed 

 dark specimens of Tephrosia luridata, Goeze, from Princethorpe, where 

 sixty per cent, of the specimens seen were dark ; curiously the first 

 to appear were the darkest. The darkest of all were taken on 

 April 20th, and none but dark ones were seen till late in May, when 

 the lighter ones began to appear. — Mr. C. J. Wainwright, insects in 

 amber. — Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, a cocoon of Saturnia pavonia, L., 

 with two distinct openings ; there was, however, only one pupa inside, 

 and it (the cocoon) was of normal size only. He also showed, on 

 behalf of Mr. G. H. Kenrick, a series of Spilosoma mendica, CI., var. 

 rustica, Hb., bred from a female captured in the South of Ireland 

 (they all came true to the parent form), also other bred insects. He 

 also showed a number of species of Spilosoma and Phragmatobia from 

 various European localities, for comparison with Mr. Kenrick's var. 

 rustica. — Mr. Chadwich, a visitor, showed various aberrations : 

 Semiothisa (Macaria) liturata, CI., a specimen from Oakley Wood, 

 apparently of the Delamere form, with dark hind marginal band and 

 general dark colour; a very fine dark Chrysophanus phloeas, L., from 

 near Claverdon, with broad hind marginal and apical band which 

 monopolised most of the dark colour, leaving only two spots on each 

 fore wing, on the hind wings only a narrowish submarginal band 

 of the ground colour was left ; the ground colour was a fine dark 

 coppery red, and the insect altogether was darker than Barrett's 

 darkest. Amongst other aberrations shown was a Spilosoma litbrici- 

 peda, L., with pinkish border to the wings. — Colbean J. Wainwright, 

 Hon. Sec. 



