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variation in the relative amounts of the dark and light 

 area, the extremely light southern examples being very 

 noticeable. 



Messrs. A. Harrison and H. Main exhibited long series of 

 Boarmia repandata, and contributed the following notes : 



" Several series were bred this year. 



" (i) From ova deposited by a female taken near Hudders- 

 field. This series varies from a mottled-grey form to almost 

 black. There is ver}' little brown colour in any of these 

 specimens. The submarginal white line in all four wings is 

 distinct in the whole series. 



" (2) From Sligo parents ; all much paler than typical 

 English specimens. 



" (3) From the neighbourhood of Liverpool, bred from 

 selected melanic parents ; all that were bred were of the 

 form shown. The submarginal white line so perceptible in 

 the Huddersfield specimens has almost disappeared. 



" (4) From Delamere Forest ; bred from three larvae 

 collected in the spring. Two are of the dark greyish-brown 

 form characteristic of the locality, and the third is similar 

 to the more rhelanic of the Huddersfield series. This is the 

 only black specimen we have obtained from Delamere 

 Forest, though we have heard of others having been taken 

 there. 



" {5) From Merionethshire, North Wales ; bred from 

 V. conversaria, male ; type female. A considerable number 

 of the larvse were sent away to several friends, and we have 

 not yet heard from them what proportion of v. conversaria 

 and type they obtained ; from those we kept we bred about 

 50 per cent, of each form. 



" (6) From South Devon ; from selected parents, both 

 v. conversaria. The ground colour is very much darker than in 

 the North Wales series. Only a small number were bred, 

 viz. ten v. conversaria and four not v. conversaria, or yi'^ per 

 cent, and 28*5 per cent, respectively. 



"(7) From near Doncaster : from larvse collected in the 

 spring. These insects are somewhat similar to those from 

 Huddersfield." 



Mr. Hugh Main, on behalf of Mr. A. Gottmann, exhibited 

 a series of forms of various species of Vanessids, from near 

 the River Deneshkina, in the province of Yenesei, Siberia, in 

 the Arctic Circle, including Euvanessa antiopa, var. artemis, the 

 form with light margin much reduced and thickly powdered 

 with black, the blue spots enlarged and hastate in shape ; 

 and var. hygicea, the form with extremely broad, light border 



