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pare with the small ab. urticoides, F. d. W., two English- 

 examples of which were also shown. With regard to the 

 latter, he remarked that Pictet stated that such aberration 

 of V. urticce resulted when larvae were fed on the flowers 

 instead of the leaves of nettle. The specimens now exhibited 

 had been reared, with others not quite so small, from larvae 

 fed on leaves of hop. 



He also showed a series of Dichrorampha flavidorsana, 

 Knaggs, and read the following note : 



" Although described as a distinct species by Dr. Knaggs, 

 in 1867, it was not until 1898 that flavidorsana was generally 

 accepted as specifically distinct from D. petiverella, L. It is 

 the alpinana of ' Stainton's Manual' (vol. ii, p. 214), but not 

 of Treitschke (D. alpinana of the latter author is the species 

 we have known as politana) , and was also named qucestionana 

 by Zeller in 1878. 



" In 1881 I found the species pretty common on the North 

 Devon coast, but I was then almost alone in regarding it as 

 flavidorsana, Knaggs, while accepting it also as alpinana of 

 the ' Manual.' 



" In 1903 I was very pleased to see a specimen in my 

 garden at Upper Tooting. It was resting on a bush of 

 southernwood (Artemisia abrotannm). The following year 

 two were taken in the garden, one on the southernwood and 

 one flying over a patch of tansy. In 1905 about half a dozen 

 were obtained chiefly from among tansy, and in 1906 there 

 have been quite a number about the tansy, and a few were 

 seen on or near the southernwood. The specimens taken 

 previous to 1906 were not larger than those taken in North 

 Devon, but the examples captured during the latter year were 

 very much larger on the average." 



Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited some dragonflies obtained in 

 Epping Forest during the year 1906, by Messrs. F. W. and 

 H. Campion, of Walthamstow, and said that, although those 

 collectors have had a long experience of the Odonata of their 

 district, they had never in former years met with the three 

 species now exhibited, viz., (1) a male of Sympetrum vnlgatum, 

 the fourth well-authenticated British specimen, and the only 

 one yet taken north of the Thames. The present capture 

 was made on September 4th, and the determination of the 

 species was confirmed by Mr. K. J. Morton, of Edinburgh ; 

 (2) a series of 5. flaveolwn, including a female, obtained 

 between August 8th and September 2nd. This is the first 

 occurrence of the species in the British Isles since 1900, and 

 it is worthy of note that the last British female recorded was 



