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according to the weather or the sport. In this way I have 

 become acquainted with many pleasant spots, and also 

 found what roads to avoid. My bag has not always been 

 heavy with rarities, but several species local in England, or 

 what one would like to take there, may generally be found 

 in plenty on an average summer day. Among the common 

 species one often meets with nice varieties or perhaps local 

 races which are always welcome to compare with our 

 insular forms, or those from other geological formations. I 

 don't know that I can say I met with what I expected 

 during my ramble on July 21st last on the Wimereux- 

 Marquise road and round to Ambleteuse, but I took a nice 

 variety of Vanessa (Aglais) urticce in which the two discal 

 spots on the fore-wings are only faintly represented, and 

 some Melanargia galatca in which the black markings are not 

 so heavy as those of our south coast. Anthvocera trifolii was 

 in abundance, amongst which were a few with the spots 

 confluent. A. filipendulce was only just coming out. 



" Insects, as a whole, were not numerous, and with regard 

 to the butterflies not a single blue was seen. Neither did I 

 meet with either Colias edusa, C. hyalc, or Papilio machaon. 

 Upon other occasions I have seen C. hyalc almost as common 

 as cabbage whites, and three or four P. machaon around me 

 at a time." 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a specimen of Lycarna eumedon, 

 from Gavarnie. It is an aberration, apparently an extreme 

 form of Oberthur's sub-radiata. In this specimen the radiat- 

 ing black lines are nearly obsolete and the marginal orange 

 spots well-developed, so that the specimen has considerable 

 resemblance (underside) to Ltzosopis roboris. 



Also a specimen of L. argus {agon) in which the spots of 

 the underside of the hind wing are well marked, making 

 almost a ring around the discal spot. This species, in his 

 experience, varies in these spots less frequently than some 

 others do, so that a slight aberration like this is perhaps 

 worth noting. 



Mr. Rayward exhibited living larvae of Cucullia lychnitis, 

 two examples bred from ova which he had found on the food 

 plant, and one captured at large. He remarked upon the 

 generally lighter colour and markings of larvae obtained from 

 ova compared with larvae taken wild. In those exhibited the 

 difference appeared to be somewhat extreme, much of the 

 black coloration being suppressed and the ground-colour also 

 being very considerably paler. He suggested that this was 

 caused by absence of exposure to sun, air, rain, etc. He 



