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Society by Mrs. Freeman, of Tavistock, Devon. It was the 

 collection of her late husband, Mr. F. F. Freeman, a Fellow 

 of the Entomological Society, and contains much of the 

 material collected by our member the late Mr. F. C. Lemann, 

 F.E.S. 



This collection is the only modern one of European 

 butterflies available for reference in London. Even at South 

 Kensington (British Museum) there is no collection of Euro- 

 pean species, apart from that representing the butterflies of 

 the world. To the rapidly increasing band of students of the 

 Palaearctic butterflies this collection will be of immense value. 



Mr. Sperring exhibited a specimen of Pararge niegcBva 

 taken at Street, in Somerset, in August, igo8, in which the 

 whole of the usually fulvous area was of a pale straw-colour. 

 He also showed five specimens of Ccenonympha pamphilus 

 from Porchester, showing five distinct shades of colour, from 

 very pale, almost straw-colour, to a very dark dull brown 

 (not red-brown). They were all taken on the same day. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a specimen of Opsiphanes cyme 

 from Brazil. 



Mr. Robert. Adkin exhibited a series of Odontopera bidentata 

 of Yorkshire origin, with regard to which he said that, in 

 the spring of 1907 he received ova from a pairing between a 

 black male and a black female of a brood that was wholly 

 black ; from these he reared a brood in 1908, which also was 

 wholly black. It appeared from this that a black strain had 

 been established from which all traces of light-coloured 

 moths had been eliminated, it having bred true for two years 

 at least in succession. Ova were obtained from the 1908 

 black moths, but instead of the brood reared in the present 

 year from them being all black, nearly 25 per cent, of them 

 were of the ordinary pale form. There was also some 

 variation in the individuals, some of the black specimens 

 showing no trace of the pale transverse line on the fore- 

 wings, while in others it was present, and in one of them it 

 was represented by a series of almost white dots ; in one of 

 the light specimens its place was taken by a row of small, 

 white longitudinal dashes, giving the insect a rayed appear- 

 ance. The series contained in addition a specimen of the 

 black form in which the scales of a considerable portion of 

 the wings were minus pigment. 



Mr. B. Adkin exhibited a short series of very curious small 

 specimens of Cidaria sufftmiata, received from N. Devon, 

 showing much superficial resemblance to Cidaria silaceata, 

 and contributed the following note : 



