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the " British Miscellany," the numbers of which were pub- 

 lished between 1804 and 1807. Other entomological publi- 

 cations which appeared during the following twenty years or 

 so record the capture of a few specimens — viz., the original 

 one, bred from a pupa dug in Battersea Fields, one from 

 South Wales, and others from Richmond Park and near 

 Bristol. The specimen now exhibited stood for many years 

 in the collection of the late Mr. Edwin Shepherd as one of 

 those taken at Richmond Park ; it then descended to the 

 late Dr. P. B. Mason, from whose collection it came into 

 Mr. Adkin's possession. The South Wales specimen is now 

 in the Hope Museum, Oxford, and there is yet another in 

 the Entomological Club Collection. 



Mr. T. W. Hall exhibited three dark forms of Crymodcs 

 exults, from Rannoch, and a powdered light form from the 

 Shetland Isles, for comparison. 



Mr. Bellamy again exhibited white eggs of the hedge- 

 sparrow. No one was aware of any previous record of this 

 aberration, and no mention was made of such in Dr. Butler's 

 " British Birds." Mr. Dobson said that he had on one 

 occasion observed this species remove its young from the 

 nest, when discovered, to a place of safety. 



APRIL 12th, 1906. 



Mr. L. W. Newman, of Bexley, was elected a member. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited specimens oiMelanippe fluctuata 

 captured at Wantage in June last, together with a series 

 bred from them in the following August. The captured 

 specimens were large, strongly marked examples, but their 

 progeny were undersized, very ordinary-looking individuals. 

 He suggested that the great difference in size, which was 

 more than would be accounted for by the parents being of 

 the spring and the offspring of the summer broods, was 

 probably due to the larvae reared in confinement being fed 

 upon garden Nasturtium, a pabulum having little substance, 

 whereas the wild larvae would have the opportunity of 

 selecting more substantial and nourishing food. 



Mr. Adkin also exhibited three specimens of Crambus 

 trisicllus from the late Mr. C. G. Barrett's collection, namely, 

 one from Orkney, in which two transverse lines were dis- 

 tinctly visible on each of the fore wings, an almost albino 

 specimen from Pembroke, and a dark example from Perth- 



