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chccvidis, as also did Mr. Edwards. The former gentleman 

 met with C. movcei, and the Hemipteron, Corimelczna scara- 

 bceoides. 



JULY2$th, 1907. 



Mr. Newman exhibited a long series of Arctia villica, bred 

 from larvae collected in N. Kent this year, including a 

 number of forms with asymmetrical markings. Several 

 showed considerable decrease in the area of the lighter 

 colour ; in some the spots on the fore-wings were more or 

 less united ; others showed the same variation in the hind- 

 wing ; while in still others some of the spots on the hind- 

 wings were much diminished in size or altogether wanting. 

 He also exhibited a fine variety of Lasiocampa quercus, var. 

 calluiKZ, which was extremely dark and without a defined 

 band on the hind wings. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited specimens of a beetle, the larvae 

 of which were causing havoc in tobacco-leaf samples. The 

 species was identified by Mr. West as Anobium paniccum. 

 Various suggestions were made as to a remedy, but all would 

 more or less cause deterioration of the tobacco. 



Mr. Alfred Sich exhibited a specimen oiTortvix promibana, 

 beaten from a vine on a wall, near a bush of Euonymus 

 japonicus, in his garden at Chiswick, July 18th, 1907. He 

 also exhibited a fasciated specimen of foxglove. In the 

 lower parts of the flowering stem were deep grooves, and 

 the stem finally divided at the top into two spikes of flowers. 

 It was from his garden, Chiswick. 



Mr. R. South exhibited a short series of Abraxas sylvata 

 (ulmata) and contributed the following note : " A selection 

 of more or less interesting forms obtained in a morning's 

 collecting, in June, 1907, at Chalfont Road,- Bucks. With 

 the exception of this species, which was present in great 

 numbers, there was very little else in the way of Lepidoptera 

 to be found, so our attention was wholly given to A. sylvata, 

 In the course of our investigations we wandered to a part of 

 the wood we had not previously struck, and here we found 

 some specimens with smoky-tinged fore-wings, a form new 

 to me from this district. The hind-wings of these specimens 

 are normal, and in one example the right fore-wing is 

 much less smoky than the left fore-wing. I also secured 

 some very lightly-marked specimens, and a few examples 

 in which the markings were unusually heavy, but Mr. 

 Scollick, who was with me, picked up one with very 



