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Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited long and varied series of 

 numerous species, including Nodua /estiva, var. tliulci, Stand., 

 all from the Shetlands, and stated that a portion of the last- 

 named series was bred in the south of England, from ova 

 laid by the wild captured form, pointing out that these 

 were of quite a different form of light red. He also showed 

 a curious specimen of a Leucania, taken b}^ Mr. H. Winser at 

 Cranleigh, which had been named in turn favicolor, pallens, 

 and straminea. This latter specimen is a yellow aberration 

 with all the appearance oi favicolor, and has not the veins so 

 prominent as in pallens, but has the smooth appearance 

 o{ favicolor. Both Mr. Burrows and Mr. Pierce have exa- 

 mined the genitalia, but cannot give a definite answer as to 

 which species it is, beyond saying it is certainly not stra- 

 minea. 



Mr. T. H. Grosvenor exhibited a very long series oiCoeno- 

 nympha tiphon (davns) from Westmoreland, Cumberland, and 

 Aberdeen, showing most of the forms usuall}' occurring. 

 The Cumberland forms are an intermediate group, although 

 certain specimens from Westmoreland and Scotland are 

 almost identical with them. 



Messrs. A. Harrison and H. Main exhibited series of 

 Boarnna gcnimaria, comprising a bred series from N. Corn- 

 wall in which the ground colour is unusually pale and yellow, 

 a bred series from Epping Forest of the usual London form 

 for comparison, and a few aberrations from various other 

 localities, including four melanic specimens from Dartford, 

 Kent. They also exhibited a long series of Meliicea atirinia 

 from N. Wales, for the most part bred in igog, showing a 

 considerable range of variation, from bright specimens 

 similar to the Irish form to dull brick-red examples like the 

 Kentish form. 



On behalf of Mr. J. March, Mr. Harrison exhibited an 

 aberration of Pararge megcera with large ocelli on the under- 

 side of the fore-wings and with the submarginal rov,- of 

 usually smaller ocelli on the under-side of the fore-wings 

 remarkably enlarged and emphasized. It was taken in igo8 

 at Bayham Abbey, Kent. 



Mrs. Hemming exhibited Polyommatns icaviis, female, with 

 basal and sub-median spots on the under-side of the fore-wings 

 broadly extended away from the discoidal spots ; P. icarus, 

 male, of the colour of typical Agriadcs thctis (bellargus) ; well 

 emphasized melanic aberrations of Argynnis adippc, Dryas 

 paphia, and Brcntliis cuplirosyne ; a male D. papJiia with 

 brownish under-side ; a Vanessa iu with the usual blue mark- 



