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Mr. Tutt also remarked at length on the interesting 

 variation of this species. 



JANUARY gth, 1908. 



Mr. Sich exhibited a specimen of Plodia inter punctella, 

 captured in the Society's rooms, and which he was placing 

 in the Society's collection. 



Mr. Gadge exhibited two specimens of Malacosoma neustria, 

 bred from larvae obtained at Chingford ; in one there was 

 not even a rudiment of the right hind-wing and in the other 

 only a rudimentary fore-wing, the left. 



Dr. Hodgson exhibited numerous examples of Lyccena 

 (Aricia) agestis (astrarche) including var. salmacis, var. 

 salmacis ab. obsoleta, male, nearly ab. alpina, male, and a form 

 with yellow spots, all from Witherslack; var. artaxerxes from 

 Kincardineshire and Aberdeenshire ; and ab. allous from 

 Reigate and Sussex. 



Mr. Grosvenor exhibited the same species, and contributed 

 the following note : 



"The var. artaxerxes are from Aberdeen, three being of the 

 form qiiadripuncta, the others the usual form ; in the females 

 two show a considerable amount of orange, nearly as much 

 so as in typical southern females ; in some of the males this 

 colour is nearly absent. 



"L. agestis (astrarche) from Reigate, first brood, all well 

 marked with orange with the exception of one male, with a 

 large decrease in the orange markings, being very close to 

 the ab. allous. 



"Also a few from Westmorland, all of which are of the 

 ab. allous, with the exception of one male, which I take is 

 referable to a form described in Mr. Tutt's ' British Butter- 

 flies,' and of which he says : " Var. alpina, Stdgr., a small 

 Alpine form of which the males are completely dark on the 

 upper side of the wings." This specimen, so far as I can 

 find out, is the first example taken in England. I may say 

 that a strong lens fails to show a single orange scale. 



" In the undersides there are one var. artaxerxes with a 

 decrease in the number of spots, of ab. allous two well- 

 marked, and two of the ab. obsoleta; in the malformed 

 specimen the spots are almost entirely absent." 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited series of Tortrix pronubana ; 

 T . podana ; T. hep ar ana ; T. rosana ; T.forsterana and Batodes 

 augustiorana reared from larva? taken on Euonymus japonicus 



