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wings, running to a point at the apex, occurring both in the 

 S and ? . Ab. pallidaria is an extremely pale yellow form 

 with the bands only just discernible, occurring in both sexes. 

 Ab. sordiata : the chocolate bands of this form are very deep 

 and rich in colour, and in some instances nearly cover the 

 whole of the wings, only a small portion of orange in o* 

 showing, and yellow in ? . One brood of this ab. produced 

 a good number of asymmetrical specimens with chocolate 

 band much wider on one side than on the other, some with 

 the bands greatly reduced and broken up. The plain orange 

 o* and yellow ? are very rich in colour, some ? s having a 

 tendency to orange - yellow ; some are extremely heavily 

 speckled with black freckles all over the wings. He introduced 

 another strain in 1904, the outcome of crossing a Monmouth 

 banded o* with an Essex $ . A ? from this brood was 

 crossed with his Kent and Essex strain, the results being 

 most curious. All the ? s were of a dirty brown coloration, 

 with bands of a darker shade, also dirty looking. The o*s 

 are dingy looking, the orange markings being very dull, 

 giving them an appearance of being washed out. (5) A long 

 series of Parargc cgcria, with many undersides showing 

 extreme variation in size, shape, and number of the eyespots. 



Mr. Percy Richards exhibited a large number of varieties 

 and aberrations of British Lepidoptera, of which the following 

 are some of the more notable : Dryas paphia ? intermediate 

 between the type form and var. valcsina ; a very grey-coloured 

 Limenitis sibylla ; a series of fine aberrations of Anthrocera 

 trifolii: (1) entirely suffused red; (2) salmon-pink confluent; 

 (3) pale straw-yellow ; (4) yellow hind wings on one side 

 only ; Uropteryx sambucata, streaked with grey on all wings, 

 freshly emerged; Rumia luteolata (cratcegata), with the reddish- 

 brown markings absent; AmpJiidasys bet idaria, forms inter- 

 mediate between the type and var. doubledayaria ; A braxas 

 grossulariata, an aberration with the ground-colour deep 

 yellow instead of white (see Fig., Barrett's "Brit. Lep."); 

 Hibemia leucophearia, a reddish-chocolate form (see Fig., 

 Barrett's " Brit. Lep.") ; Plusia ni, taken near Kingston ; 

 Thera variata, a black form from Kingston Hill ; Charczas 

 graminis, large, very red forms from Richmond Park; Boarmia 

 abietaria, forms from jet black to pale grey ; Gnophos obscuvata, 

 a reddish-brown form ; and, on behalf of Mr. Ernest Warne, 

 Mclanippc fluctuate! , a form pale grey all over; Grammesia 

 trigvammica itriliuea), a very dark suffused form ; and Bupalus 

 piniaria, with black markings on the grey outer border. 



Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited several drawers of Spanish 



