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at Fareham, Hants, which, although extremely aberrant, was 

 considered to be Apainea liitiilenta. 



Mr. Colthrup exhibited a short series of Agriopis aprilina, 

 including one in which the white of the fore-wing was replaced 

 by green, the fringe dark grey instead of white, and the hind- 

 wing grey-black, without any trace of white ; a very pale 

 specimen of Miselia oxyacanthcE ; and a variety of Scopelosoma 

 satellitia, in which the upper wings were very dark grey and 

 the reniform white. All were taken this autumn in the New 

 Forest. 



Mr. C. T. Pickett exhibited his fine series of Angerona 

 prunaria, the picked results of eleven years' interbreeding, 

 containing representatives of the various strains and aberra- 

 tions, with several new forms. The series comprised : Males, 

 approaching the yellow coloration of the females ; females, 

 approaching the orange coloration of the males ; males, 

 plain orange, not freckled ; females, plain yellow, not 

 freckled ; males and females, of the ab. picketiaria ; males 

 and females, of the ab. pallidaria ; females, almost uni- 

 colorous chocolate ; females, unusually large, with putty- 

 coloured bands: females, with deep rich chocolate bands and 

 rich orange-yellow central bands ; males, with deep rich 

 chocolate bands and orange central bands ; females, orange- 

 yellow, very heavily freckled ; males, deep orange, very 

 heavily freckled; male, of a rich sienna brown, with brownish 

 orange central band ; female, of a rich lemon yellow, per- 

 fectly plain ; females, of banded type, with the bands broken 

 up, forming striations on the fore-wings. 



He also exhibited a large number of Picris napi, the 

 results of three years' interbreeding, starting from a Fife 

 female given him by Mr. Harrison. The series included : 



First brood : Some heavil}' marked females, many ap- 

 proaching the dark Irish forms, with under-sides of rich 

 green veins on a yellow ground. 



Second brood, by way of contrast, were extremely lightly 

 veined ; in two or three specimens the veins were almost 

 obsolete, but the ground colour was of a rich yellow. 



From Dawlish, a long series of captured examples, second 

 brood, very large females, with nervures of hind-wings black, 

 all the under-sides being of palest yellow, with green veins 

 almost absent. 



From Worthing, a series of second-brood specimens bred 

 from a female nearer the typical form, including specimens 

 with under-sides faintly veined, on whitish yellow ground. 

 In the case were series of very large creamy females of Pieris 



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