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Epinephcle jurtina, Hb. {ianiva) : Series of males and 

 females, chiefly from the London district, showing aberra- 

 tion — {a) in ocellated spot ; (b) in amount of fulvous colour; 

 {c) in tint of the fulvous colour in the female. 



Luperi)ia guencci, var. baxteri. (Type.) Lancashire coast, 

 1909. 



Malacosoina ncustria, L. : A female specimen, reared July 

 22nd, 1909, from a solitary larva taken off a birch, at Oxshott. 

 The general colour is pale brown, but the central band is 

 only represented by a rather narrow bar, extending from the 

 costa to the median nervure ; this bar is dark brown, tapered 

 towards its extremity, and is edged with whitish. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye : A very remarkable series of the South 

 American butterfly, Hcliconiiis doris, including the forms 

 tecta, obsciira, aniathusia, cratonius, luminosus, adistomache, 

 viridaria, and an apparently unnamed form from British 

 Guiana, with a large amount of red at the base of the 

 fore-wing and with very narrow streaking to the hind-wing. 



It was mentioned that the species throughout its range was 

 primarily dimorphic, a red and a blue form always occurring 

 together. But in some localities, such as on the western 

 slope of the Andes, in Colombia, there occurred with the 

 usual red and blue forms recurrent aberrations of both, in 

 which the large yellow discoidal blotch was wanting. In 

 other parts of Colombia intermediate forms between the red 

 and blue occurred, combining the two colours. The extreme 

 form aniathusia was very rare, but had occurred in Central 

 Brazil, Ecuador, and Guiana. Chiriqui, in Panama, pro- 

 duced special forms of the blue phase of the species in 

 Imninosus and viridaria, in which the blue was altered to a 

 yellowish-green. The species ranged from Costa Rica to 

 Central Brazil, but was restricted vertically to about two 

 thousand feet. 



Mr. E. Step exhibited a series of seventy photographs of 

 fungi taken since the exhibition of 1908, chiefly from Ash- 

 tead and Oxshott, and including a small number of Myxo- 

 gastres. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited a series of under-sides of Mdanitis 

 leda (Linn.), and contributed the following note: 



" This is a very variable butterfly, of wide geographical 

 range, being found from Africa, through the Indian region, 

 to Australia. It has two well-marked seasonal forms (wet 

 and dry), and exhibits infinite variety in the markings of 

 the under-sides. Several of the local forms or races were 

 formerly considered distinct species. 



