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Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited a box of Satyr idee from 

 various localities, among them being a nice series of the 

 sexually dimorphic species Hctcronyin[)ha iiicrope, including a 

 specimen largely suffused with black. 



Mr. Enock exhibited living male and female Myiuarida- just 

 bred bv him from Richmond Park. Among them were 

 examples of the very minute and beautiful battledore-wing fly 

 {My mar pulchellnni). 



AUGUST 2Sfh, 1910. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of Syrichtus malvcE, taken 

 near Eastbourne on May 22nd last. The morning of that 

 day, he said, was very fine and sunny, and the species was 

 flying freely ; but about noon the sky suddenly clouded over, 

 and the butterflies at once disappeared. On searching the 

 herbage, however, in the hope of finding some odd species 

 that might be resting upon it, he detected, after going over 

 the ground several times, a specimen of S. malvcc resting on 

 a flower-head of salad burnet. A more careful examination 

 revealed the fact that quite a number of them were so resting, 

 but their chequered wings, outspread and slightly bent down, 

 much in the position of those of an ordinary set specimen, 

 assimilated so closely with the flowers of the ribwort 

 {Plantago lanccolata), which was blossoming abundantly all 

 around the plants on which the insect was resting, as to 

 make its detection exceedingh' difficult. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited a series of Typhlocyha 

 crucnta, a species of Homoptera hitherto only taken at 

 Woking by the late Mr. Saunders, from sycamore. Mr. 

 West's specimens were obtained by him at Ranmore and 

 Box Hill in August. He also exhibited specimens of 

 Oncotyius viridiflavus, from Ranmore. 



Mr. Newman exhibited a specimen oi Odontopcrabidcntata, 

 intermediate in marking, the fore-wings dark with a light 

 central area of considerable size, while the hind-w-ings were 

 liglit with a wide dark marginal border; a female specimen 

 of BitJiys qucrah, in which the fore-wings were blotched with 

 adouis-hlue instead of the usual purplish-blue; two bred 

 specimens of Argynnis paphia var. valesina, somewhat inter- 

 mediate in tint ; a female specimen of Enchloc cardauiincs, 

 having a streak of bright yellow scaling on the disc of the 

 left fore-wing; and another specimen in which the greenish 

 marbling on the underside approached that of E. bdia, while 

 on the upper side there was an unusual amount of suffusion 



