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record 1911 season with other years, he was struck with the numbers 

 of tailed and suffused forms which he attributed to the heat — of one 

 hundred and twenty-three specimens taken in 1911, twenty-four had 

 pronounced tails, and most of those captured in August showed a 

 trace of tails, the September specimens being less remarkable. As 

 to suffusion, only one specimen slightly suli'used from September 

 captures, and twenty-three among the August, of which twenty are 

 ab. initia. — Mr. A. W. Mera, twenty-four specimens taken at Three 

 Bridges, Sussex, early in August, all of a somewhat dull colour ap- 

 proaching ab. initia. — Mr. V. E. Shaw, ab. obsoleta, from Darenth, ab. 

 radiata, Finchley, ab. eleiis, sujfiisa, and carideoyunctata, from Bexley. 

 — Mr. C. Nicholson, three larvae reared from ova of an ab. caruleoimnc- 

 tata, and mentioned how easily females were induced to oviposit, in 

 confinement, by placing them in a large glass cyhnder over growing 

 food-plant, covering top with mosquito netting. The showy stonecrop 

 Seclum specfahile he had found very attractive to B. plilcEcis, he noticing 

 on one occasion nine specimens on one plant in his garden at Hale End. 

 January 16th, 1912. — Mr. A. L. Mera was elected a member of 

 the Society. — Annual "Pocket-box" exhibition. — Mr. L. B. Prout, 

 specimens of a dark race of Eubolia hipunctaria from north Devon, 

 taken on a dark soil and approaching the Continental var. gachtaria, 

 Frr., also a female from Sandown, Isle of Wight, with the bands 

 edging the central area strongly darkened. Mr. G. H. Heath, a 

 specimen of Anosia erippus, var. archippus, found dead in the grass 

 at Sandown, Isle of Wight, on the night of September 13th, 1908 ; 

 Xylomiges conspicillaris var. melaleuca, bred from a pupa dug in 

 Worcestershire, September, 1897; Acidalia incanaria var. hischo- 

 ffaria, taken at Brockley, September, 23rd, 1911, the first recorded 

 specimen of this melanic form taken in this country. — Mr. Charles H. 

 Williams, A. grossulariata, abs., including varleyata, nigrosparsata, 

 and lacticolor. — Mr. V. E. Shaw drew attention to the fact that this 

 latter aberration should be known as ab. deleta, it having been 

 named so by Mr. Cockerell in 1889 (see ' Entomologist,' vol. xxii., p. 

 99). This is the first ab. figured in Edward Newman's ' British 

 Moths,' p. 99.- — Mr. A. J. Willsdon, a fine series of Tapinostola bondii 

 collected at Folkestone in the grass and in fine condition, equal to 

 bred specimens ; Melitcea aurinia from Ireland — two specimens of a 

 brick-red ground colour, the usual straw-coloured area being absent 

 on the upper sides, and on under sides the usual pale spots also 

 absent. — Dr. J. S. Sequeira, living stick insects, also Vanessa antiopa 

 taken in 1803, from Donovan's collection. — Mr. James Douglas, Nola 

 cucullatella, bred from Chingford, some showing a tendency to 

 melanism. — Mr. T. H. L. Grosvenor, Pieris napi from first brood, 

 showing following variation : (1) Male with female marking ; (2) 

 gynandromorph ; (3) male with entire absence of black markings ; 



(4) neural markings at base forming a green margin to secondaries ; 



(5) female with failure of black pigment, and a female specimen 

 from second brood with black discal spot in secondaries. P. rapoi, a 

 male absolutely white, female of yellow coloration, female with black 

 spots connected with black markings, and two females with black spots 

 only just discernible ; Argynnis cwphrosyne, a black banded female, 

 a female under side with pearl spots much enlarged, a male vv'ith 



