70 



suggestions had been made, but there was an absence of 

 authenticated facts. 



Mr. Rayward exhibited living females of Hybemia rupi- 

 capraria taken at Wallington on February 8th, and several 

 members had also found the species fairly common. 



Mr. Crow exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Hickman, the brood 

 of Arctia caia and its varieties referred to at the Exhibition 

 of Varieties in November. Several of the specimens were 

 very dark, smoky, with scarcely any white or lighter markings, 

 and yet the usually dark marking obscurely showed through 

 on both fore- and hind-wings. If any light markings were 

 present they were towards the base of the wings. One or 

 two of the varieties were much crippled and with asym- 

 metrical markings. The rest of the brood were practically 

 normal in markings, and there were no intermediates. 



Mr. Kaye exhibited a few specimens of the two forms of 

 Heliconius pasithoe, Cram, and stated that it was an isolated 

 species and confined in its distribution to the banks and 

 creeks of the Demerara River. From the River Essequibo 

 to the north, and the Berbice River to the south, it has 

 never been recorded. The species occurs in local abundance 

 in its haunts. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of Cupido minima, taken 

 last year at Eastbourne, in which the males showed an 

 unusual amount of blue coloration. Mr. Main said that a 

 series he obtained from Folkestone were very varied in the 

 amount of blue shown in the same sex. 



Mr. South exhibited a very long series of Tachyptilia popu- 

 lella, all taken on August 20th, 1904, at rest on birch trunks 

 at Oxshott. They were very varied in markings and most 

 difficult to see at rest from their protective resemblance to 

 the bark of the birch. The series showed two general types, 

 (1) having the dark and light markings pronounced and 

 somewhat strongly contrasted, and (2) having a generally 

 dark appearance. In all examples the submarginal line was 

 very well defined. 



Mr. South also exhibited a hybrid between Anthrocera 

 (Zygoma) filipendultz ( ? ) and A. trifolii (<? ), and contributed 

 the following note : "The specimen of A nthrocera exhibited 

 was reared from eggs deposited by a female A . filipendulce that 

 had paired with a male A . trifolii. The parents, also exhibited, 

 were one of the four cross-pairs to which reference was made 

 at a meeting of the Society held on October 22nd, 1903 

 (see also " Entom.," xxxvii, 15). Although all the eggs 

 hatched and the larvae, over 100 in number, appeared at first 



