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females with the same, only on the hind-winos ; females 

 with on!}' a trace of these patches; females from Sligo, 

 large, brilliantly blue, suffused with unusually large orange 

 patches; an extremely small male, measuring only 23 mm. ; 

 a few undersides showing — (i) degrees of the union of the 

 inner marginal blotches on the fore-wing; (2) suppression 

 of all eye-spots on the hind-wings ; (3) enlargement and 

 elongation of the submarginal ocellations on the fore-wings, 

 etc. 



Mr. Hemming's specimens included a male, with its colour 

 approaching that oi Agriadesthctis {bcllargiis) ; a female, with 

 strong marginal striation on the under-side ; a dw^arf male 

 with crescents and spots on the underside of the fore-wings 

 much displaced, taken on June 22nd, 1910, in Sussex; one 

 male with a well-developed series of marginal black spots 

 on the lower wings ; and on behalf of Mr. A. Hemming a 

 striking female aberration, taken near Redhill, on September 

 15th, 1909, in which all the submedian spots on the under- 

 side of the fore-wings are closely clustered around the 

 discoidal, except that the lowest spot is confluent wnth the 

 lower basal spot, while on the imderside of the hind-wings 

 the spots are partially obsolete, but those that remain, two 

 submedian and one basal, are also clustered around the 

 discoidal. 



Mr. B. W. Adkin exhibited a selection of specimens from 

 Scotland, the Hebrides, Ireland, the Isles of Scilly, North 

 Cornwall, Devon, Kent, Sussex, and the Isle of Wight. 

 Among them a hylas blue male from the Hebrides, of very 

 large size, and a tin}- dwarf female from the Isle of Wight 

 were perhaps the most noticeable. The specimens from 

 the Isles of Scilly were selected from a large number, and 

 Mr. Adkin spoke of the race as of rather small size, the 

 males very ordinary, and the females rather pale blue, with 

 orange markings well developed. 



Mr. E. C. Joy exhibited a drawer of specimens arranged 

 as spring and summer emergences, and stated that the 

 former were, on the average decidedly larger and finer than 

 the latter. 



Mr. C. P. Pickett exhibited a long series containing males, 

 varying from steel blue to adonis-like blue ; undersides, an 

 absolute var. obsoleta, and several forms near striata ; females, 

 from the dingy type to a long series of blue forms varying 

 from violet to a Morpho-Wke blue ; one blue female with a 

 distinctly marked marginal black band ; and a series from 

 North Wales much larger than our south of England forms. 



