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upon as very rare, but which had recently been found to be 

 locally common at Oxford, by Mr. Hamm. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited specimens of Plebeius argus 

 ( = cegon) from Galicia, N.-W. Spain, large, pale beneath, 

 allied to vars. hypochiona and bcjarcnsis, but differ in many 

 specimens, having (in the <$) a red arched line bordering the 

 black spots (or some of them) of the border of the hind wing ; 

 one ? , an unusually small one for this var., has a blue border 

 to the red spots of the hind wing, but without any blue on 

 the discs. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of Acronycta leporina, 

 reared from Abbot's Wood larvae. They showed some 

 variation in the intensity of the black markings and in the 

 density of the black suffusion of the wings, but in this latter 

 respect none so much suffused as ab. bradyporina (" Steph. 

 Illustrations," vol. iii, PI. XXVI, fig. 3). 



Mr. Step exhibited a fine specimen of the fungus, Poly- 

 porns gigantcns, and a photograph of the mass from which the 

 specimen was taken. It was found at Ashtead. He also 

 showed a number of photographs of fungi taken during the 

 Fungus Foray of the Society on October 6th, together with 

 one of the very rare Amanita strobiliformis, found at Ashtead. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a long series of Hcmcrophila 

 (Synopsia) abruptaria, bred from a pairing of a dark <$ with a 

 dark ? , these coming from a pairing of dark S and dark ? , 

 thus : 



Dark 6 x dark ? 



Dark <$ dark ? 



The result of the pairing was twenty- nine dark 6s, twenty 

 dark ?s, and two normal cTs. The dark forms were by no 

 means uniform, several showing a considerable tendency to 

 be intermediate. About eleven out of the brood of fifty-two 

 were well up to the average size of the typical form. All 

 had, however, been treated alike in a large sleeve on a 

 growing lilac tree, and there had been a plentiful supply of 

 food, showing that the dwarfing of the greater number of the 

 specimens was not due to starvation. Pairings taken again 

 gave hardly any eggs and the resultant larvae died. 



Portions of two other broods were also shown. 



(1) A pairing of dark <$ dark ? , from light c? dark ? , thus : 



