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scales only representing them on the underside. Two 

 other female specimens approached this form very closely. 

 The rest of the female specimens were not unusually well 

 marked for the locality. The upper sides of the males were 

 about the average, but one male had a complete, very delicate, 

 black margin to the fore-wings. The undersides of this sex 

 were about the average in depth of colour, with a tendency 

 to be lightly marked. The undersides of the females were 

 from average to extremely lightly marked. One specimen 

 was the most lightly marked specimen bred at any time, or 

 even captured, of either emergence. 



Mr. Harrison reported that, by assembling with a female 

 Amphidaiys betnlaria at Woodford, he had obtained no fewer 

 than twenty-one males, of which fourteen were the v. double- 

 day aria form. 



JUNE 22rd, 1 910. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited a specimen of Algeria culiciformis, 

 taken at rest on an alder stump in the New Forest, in May ; 

 also specimens of the rare Coleopteron, Anthaxia nitidtda, 

 taken in June in the same locality. 



Mr. Newman exhibited a very long bred series of Ema- 

 Uirga atoinaria, from ova laid by a melanic female crossed 

 with a typical male, which showed a large proportion of 

 specimens of the melanic form, the major number being 

 females. He stated that the larvae are very easy to rear, and 

 feed readily on knotgrass, but must be provided with plenty 

 of heather to hibernate amongst. In one case 103 larvaj 

 produced 103 imagines. 



Mr. West (jGreenwich) exhibited a number of species 

 captured by him during the Field Meeting at Ranmore 

 Common on June i8th, including Cryptocephalus coryli, C. 

 niorcei, Heptaulacus villosus, Polydrusiis niicans, Cionus thapsus, 

 etc., among the Coleoptera ; and developed and undeveloped 

 forms of Stiroma affinis, S. albomarginata (developed forms 

 rare), Philcenns exdamationis, Dcltocephalns abdoininalis, 

 Liburnia (DelpJiacinus) mesomela, etc., among the Hemiptera. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited series of Endromis versicolor 

 and Biston hirtaria, reared during the spring of the present 

 year, from ova received from Aviemore in igo8, thus having 

 remained over a second year in pupae. With regard to the 

 E. versicolor, he said that some three dozen pupated in the 

 summer of igoS, and from these seven males and five females 

 emerged in the spring of 1909; while of the seventeen speci- 



