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Mrs. Hemmino[ exhibited a gynandromorphous example of 

 Celustrina argiolits, taken by her in Surrey, on May loth, 

 1910. The left side was female and the right side male. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a number of species of Safyridcr of 

 the genera Taygetis and Melauiiis. The former, which is 

 confined to the American continent, show noticeable varia- 

 tion in the undersides. Melanitis is found in the Indian, 

 Mala3'an, Australian, and African regions. The extreme 

 variation shown by the undersides of the widely distributed 

 and common Melanitis leda was very remarkable. 



A correction. — Mr. R. Adkin again exhibited the specimen 

 of a Boarmia referred to, in his '' Stray Notes on the \'aria- 

 tion and Distribution of Boarmia repandata in Britain," as a 

 unicolorous smoky-black specimen sent from Delamere, and 

 probably referable to B. gemmaria (" Proceedings," 1909, 

 p. 3) : together with short series of melanic forms of B. 

 repandata from Lancashire and Yorkshire, and of B. gem- 

 maria from Kent for comparison, and read the following 

 note : 



" The specimen referred to in my notes as coming from 

 Delamere, I now hear from my friend and fellow member, Mr. 

 Mansbridge, to whose kindness I am indebted for it, really 

 came from Knowslev, Lancashire, and not from Delamere as 

 stated; it is a captured specimen and not in very good con- 

 dition, and, therefore, difficult to dift'erentiate. Mr. Mans- 

 bridge, on reading my notes, expressed his opinion that I 

 was wrong in regarding it as a form of B. gemmaria, and 

 he had not the slightest doubt that it should be referred 

 to B. repandata ; and, with a view to convincing me, he very 

 kindly sent me the series of specimens bred from Knowsley 

 parents now exhibited. They are by far the darkest speci- 

 mens I have seen of any Boarmia, yet, being in perfect 

 condition, it is not difficult to trace in them the usual 

 markings of B. repandata ; moreover, as Mr. Mansbridge 

 points out, the pectinations of the male antennae are propor- 

 tionately much shorter in that species than in B. gemmaria, 

 a character which certainly holds good in this case. 1 think, 

 therefore, we must accept the Knowsley series as a very 

 remarkable form of B. repandata, and as the specimen in 

 question is undoubtedly one of the same race, that also must 

 be regarded as a form of B. repandata, not of B. gemmaria as 

 originally stated." 



Butterflies attacked by birds. — Mr. Robert Adkin mentioned 

 that his son had reported to him that on May 20th, while walk- 

 ing on the road towards Beachy Head at Eastbourne, a small 



