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Mr. H. Moore exhibited a gynandromorphous example of 

 Papilio clearchus, and contributed the following note : 



" There is a group of South American butterflies, compris- 

 ing a number of forms or closely allied species, commonly 

 known as the cleotas-phceton series. The specimen exhibited 

 may prove of somewhat unusual interest. It is a gynandro- 

 morph — right side male, left side female — ^judging by the size 

 and shape of the wings. Compared with specimens in the 

 National Collection (which, by the way, is incomplete), it is 

 near P. clearchus (Felder), but both pairs of wings are 

 sufficiently distinct not to be identified with any form 

 represented there, and, so far as I can judge, do not agree 

 with those of any of the forms recently described by Dr. Karl 

 Jordan in Seitz's ' Butterflies of the World.' " 



MARCH nth, 1909. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited a cabinet drawer of the 

 Society's type collection of Coleoptera, the second he had 

 recently rearranged, remounting all the specimens. 



Mr. South exhibited a short series of Acidalia degeneraria 

 from Torquay, and contributed the following note : 



" Mr. J. Walker, of Torquay, has sent me two specimens 

 from a series of this species which he reared last September 

 from ova deposited by a female taken in his district. He 

 writes : ' These are not nearly so dark as the Portland form' ; 

 he adds that he has taken A. degeneraria in one spot near 

 Torquay each season during the past three years. Further, 

 I understand that although he has searched other likely 

 places in the district, he only finds the species in the one 

 in which he first met with it. 



" From eggs laid in July, larvae hatch in about seven days, 

 and if kept in a warm room will attain full growth and 

 pupate by the beginning of September ; moths emerge a 

 fortnight later. A few larvae, however, refuse to feed up, and 

 these usually die during the winter. 



" The two Dorset specimens put in for comparison were 

 reared in September, 1904, from Portland parents." 



Mr. Kaye exhibited a number of series of Cosmotriche 

 potatoria from various localities. The series included pale 

 males of the female coloration from Cambs. and Norfolk; 

 some exceedingly dark males from Pembrokeshire, the 

 females from the same locality also being rather dark ; from 

 Exeter were some very large dark females of a somewhat 



