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bronze colour, instead of the typical silvery white with a few 

 bronze markings near the apex. Clevckella is the commoner 

 of the two species of Lyonctia indigenous to Great Britain. 

 The larva is found in leaves of hawthorn, apple, cherry, etc., 

 as well as birch. Staudinger gives three other species as 

 natives of the Palaearctic area, all from Europe ; and Meyrick 

 notes that the genus is represented in Australia. Dyar 

 mentions six other species from different parts of the United 

 States. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited a variety of Liuiuas chrysippus, form 

 ■alcippns, from Northern Nigeria, in which the minute white 

 dot at the end of the cell in the fore-wings is duplicated and 

 much enlarged; also the ab. alcippina (Auriv.) of Acrcea 

 encedon, L., from the same locality. 



Mr. H. Main exhibited the larva of the European ant-lion 

 {Myrmelcon foruiicarius), the nearly full-grown larva of the 

 glow-worm {Lampyris noctiluca) feeding upon snails, and the 

 newly hatched larvae of the same coleopteron. 



Dr. Hodgson exhibited a specimen of Callophrys rtibi, with 

 xanthic areas on all the wings ; another example with the 

 underside of a strong bluish-green shade ; a female specimen 

 of Naneobins lucina, in which the yellow area was much 

 increased with a corresponding decrease of the black 

 markings ; another example, a male in which the reverse 

 variation (decrease of the yellow and increase of the black) 

 was most marked ; another specimen in which one of the 

 yellow median bands on the underside of the hind-wings was 

 replaced by black ; and two specimens o^ Anthrocera trifolii, 

 one a black form, the only one obtained this \"ear, and the 

 other a bred specimen with extreme red suffusion of wings. 



Mr. Rayvvard exhibited a spray of Erica cinerca with ova 

 of Plcbeius ayo^tcs {oegon) laid in nature. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a selection of butterflies taken 

 by him in S.E. Brazil, in the early part of this year (igio). 

 He intimated that these were a fair sample of what one met 

 with on a trip to this part of Brazil. The species selected 

 were purposely not specially rare insects. They included 

 six species of Morplio. M. anaxibia was over in Parana by 

 early March ; M. menelaiis, fresh at Santos in early April ; 

 M. hercules, very abundant locally near Sao Paulo in late 

 February and early March ; M. latrtes, abundant throughout 

 the autumn, i. e. February and March into April ; M. cega, met 

 with rather sparingly in the State of Sao Paulo, but abun- 

 dantly in Parana in late March ; and M. cytheris, in abundance 

 in the latter part of March in various parts of Parana. Papilio 



