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with the southern examples. The Cheshire specimens were 

 intermediate. Mr. Fremlin reported some examples he had 

 bred as having the two discal spots duplicated, and referred 

 to the statement that pupae which had fallen to the ground 

 always produced chocolate-coloured, imagines as only being 

 partially true. Other members also considered this latter as 

 the more correct statement. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited a short series of the same 

 species from Lapland, some Co. Kilkenny specimens, a very 

 dwarf form, a dark form from Keswick, and a very light 

 specimen with the black areas somewhat restricted, the two 

 discal spots only indicated by one or two scattered scales, 

 the submarginal band of the hind wing very light and some- 

 what wider than usual, and with an extremely light under- 

 side. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a large number of examples of A. 

 urticce, showing minor points of variation covered by British 

 examples. 



Various members then mentioned the observations they 

 had made this season. Mr. Harrison had been to Cheshire, 

 where he had found Lepidoptera exceedingly scarce. Larvae 

 were scarcer and smaller than he had ever before seen them 

 at the corresponding date. Each night there had been a 

 sharp frost, and the wind was, in the main, N.-W. Of 

 Brephos partlicnias he only saw four examples, and on one 

 evening only were the sallows productive. Mr. Bellamy 

 said that the weather had been very cold in the New Forest, 

 and that insects were extremely scarce in any stage. Mr. 

 Kaye said that larvae were very scarce both at Oxshott and 

 Wimbledon. Mr. Sich said that in March he had found 

 Eriocrania unimaculclla and E. semipurpurella, both very 

 common, not, as usual, flying in the sunshine, but sitting 

 on the twigs of birch, from which it was easy to dislodge 

 them into an umbrella. Mr. Edwards reported that A lends 

 pictaria was common still in Epping Forest. Messrs. Ashby 

 and West (of Greenwich) reported that Coleoptera were very 

 scarce ; searching among dead leaves, generally so productive 

 at this time of the year, was useless, the ground below them 

 even being devoid of moisture. 



MAY 10th, 1906. 



A considerable number of British species of Pyralidcc were 

 added to the Society's collections by Mr. R. Adkin. 



