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spring forms with most beautifully blue females, the summer 

 specimens uniformly brown. In conclusion, he was delighted 

 with the evening's exhibition, and realised that no hner 

 collection could have been got together in any part of 

 Europe than that in the hands of the various members of 

 the South London Society. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of Cdastrina argioliis 

 reared from larvas taken at Eastbourne in September last ; 

 one of the females had the black border much reduced, 

 hardly extending beyond the middle of the outer margin of 

 the fore- wings, and the row of marginal black spots usual on 

 the hind-wings was absent. 



Mr. Sich exhibited specimens of Prays ciirtiscllus including 

 V. rustica from Westerham, one of the few insects it was 

 possible to capture during the almost incessant storm on the 

 occasion of the Society's Field Meeting on July 2nd. 



Mr. Pickett exhibited a fine series of forms of Angcrona 

 prnnavia, bred this year, including a number of extreme 

 forms of the variety pickeUaria. They were a selection from 

 some 900 specimens bred, and the offspring of twelve years 

 of interbreeding and crossing from an original Raindeen 

 Wood male and a Chingford female. The males were par- 

 ticularly rich in the orange coloration, and some were very 

 heavily freckled. The females were a richly banded race, 

 with a strong tendency for the male coloration to predomi- 

 nate. A striking new form was bred this year, in which the 

 marginal band, so perfect in v. pickettaria, was divided into 

 two bands. The race was stronger than ever this year and 

 some of the largest specimens obtained were among them. 

 The exhibit was a selection from nearly a thousand bred 

 from the pairings of five female 1909 specimens. 



Mr. Step read the report of the delegates to the 1910 

 Annual Congress of the S.E. Union of Scientific Societies, 

 held at Guildford, June 8th to June nth. 



Report of Delegates to the Annual Congress of 

 THE South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. 



By E. Step, F.L.S. 

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The meeting of the South-Eastern Union at Guildford, 

 June 8th to nth, must be pronounced another success, in 

 spite of rather unfavourable weather. Members and dele- 

 gates gathered together in the Borough and County Halls 



