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quake, of which he and his son were two of the few 

 survivors. 



OCTOBER 2-]th, 1 910. 



Mr, H. Moore exhibited several teratological specimens, 

 including Arctia caia, in which all the wings were shortened, 

 giving the appearance of comparative broadness, with a large 

 concavity in the hind margin of the hind-wings ; Papilio 

 clearclms, with aberrant markings of the right fore-wing ; 

 Delias deione, with left fore-wing imperfectly developed in 

 size; Hypolimnas, sp., ? with a small right hind-wing; and 

 Prioncris thcstylis, with the right fore-wing dwarfed. 



Mr. Sich exhibited an EupitJiecia sp. in which the right 

 fore-wing was imperfect ; and a dwarfed specimen of Colias 

 ednsa, in which the fore-wings had a strong concavity in the 

 hind margin. 



Mr. R. South exhibited series of (i) Covcinia unidcniaria, 

 Haworth. Thirty-four specimens reared from eggs laid by 

 a purplish-red banded female (also shown) captured at Tilgate, 

 Sussex, on May 27th, 1910. /\bout fifty ova were deposited 

 between date of capture and the 29th of the month, when 

 the specimen, being still in excellent condition, was killed 

 and set. Larvai commenced to hatch out on June 5th, and 

 to pupate June 28th. All had gone down on July 12th. 

 Three males appeared on July 19th, and all the imagines, 

 thirty-four in number, were out before the end of that 

 month. Sixteen specimens (seven males and nine females) 

 have the purplish-red band of the female parent ; seventeen 

 (six males and eleven females) are black-banded as in typical 

 iinidentaria, and one female has the band purplish-black. 



(2) Acidalia aversata, reared from ova deposited by a 

 female ab. spoliata, taken at Wallington, Surrey, in August, 

 1909. Owing to losses from various causes during and after 

 hibernation, only sixteen larvae were seen alive at the beginning 

 of April. Between May 17th and June 7th, 1910, fourteen 

 moths appeared in the breeding-cage ; twelve of these 

 were shown, the others were crippled. Nine of the specimens 

 were of the typical banded form, and only five of the plain 

 female parent form. Curiously, the first specimen to emerge 

 (May 19th) is ochreous in ground colour, and the band is 

 purplish-brown ; all the others, both banded and plain, are 

 of the typical bone or whitey-brown ground colour. A pair of 

 the banded form emerged on June 7th, and the female laid a 

 nice batch of eggs (about eighty). 



