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of the genitalia, and to regard the specimen as a form of A. 

 jilipendulce ; and seeing that it was the female parent that 

 was supposed to be A. achillecB we can only suppose that 

 Mr. Renton must have been mistaken in its identity. In 

 this connection I may mention that he subsequently sent me 

 two other specimens he had captured, which resembled the 

 supposed hybrid fairly closely. He considered these could 

 not be A . JilipendulcB on account of certain details of appear- 

 ance, which he pointed out. I have carefully examined these 

 specimens, and have not the slightest doubt that they are 

 nothing more than a form of A . iilipenciulcB ; and in this 

 opinion I am confirmed by others to whom I have shown 

 them. It is, therefore, quite conceivable that a possibly 

 worn individual of this form was the female that he found 

 paired, and that he was thus led into the error of supposing 

 it to be a cross-pairing that he had witnessed. It is also 

 obvious that, this being the case, the two specimens bred in 

 confinement, which were sold at Stevens' rooms on October 

 27th, igo8, as hybrid A. achillecc x filipendn/ce, are probably 

 but forms of the latter species ; perhaps, whoever now has 

 these specimens in his possession, may feel sufficiently 

 interested to have their genitalia examined, and the question 

 of their identity thus finally set at rest." 



Mr, Hy. J. Turner exhibited a large number of Diptera, 

 Hynienoptera, IchneiwwnidcB, and a few Colcoptera just received 

 from Waroona, W. Australia, and one of the two boxes in 

 which they, with many specimens of Lepidoptera, 138 in all, 

 had been packed, to show the ingenious method of mani- 

 pulating a discarded cigar box for entomological purposes, 



Mr. A. Sperring exhibited four specimens of Amphydasis 

 strataria (all females). These four specimens differ very 

 widely from the type, especially specimen No. i, and were 

 bred from a wild male and a bred female from Chislehurst, 

 Of some thirty larvae only five perfect specimens resulted — 

 one male and four females, none of which could be con- 

 sidered as typical. There were also many cripples. He 

 noted that in the specimens exhibited the bands are, in all 

 cases, very dark, ranging from black to deep brown, instead 

 of pale mauve or lilac, as is usual. Specimen No, i exhibits 

 the widest divergence from type specimens. Specimen No, 

 4 is the lightest of the whole number bred, either perfect or 

 crippled, practically the whole of the latter being equivalent 

 to specimens Nos. i and 2, 



Mr, A. Sich read a paper entitled the " Legs of Lepi- 

 dopterous Larvae " (p. 15), 



