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considered that specimens agreeing with Stephens' descrip- 

 tion were found in meadows where A . trifolii occurred with 

 A . filipendulce ov A. lonicerce, and in the Northwood locaHty 

 the two former species did occur together ; but so far as he 

 knew A. trifolii was absent from the waste land at Wester- 

 ham, where those individuals were taken ; moreover, the 

 specimens from that locality did not emerge until the end of 

 July, which would be considered an unusually late date for 

 A. hippocrepidis, which Stephens says is found in June. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye read a paper, " Collecting in Brazil," des- 

 criptive of a delightful trip he took with Mr. Dukiniield Jones 

 in the earlier part of the year. Mr. Jones exhibited a large 

 number of slides, many of them from photographs taken 

 during the journey, illustrative of Mr. Ka\e"s remarks (see 

 P- 54)- 



■JAXUARY riih, 191 1. 



The President referred to the great loss the science of 

 entomology had suffered by the death of Mr. J. W. Tutt, a 

 member of long standing, and President in iSg8. 



Mr. H. F. Phillips, of Forest Gate, was elected a member. 



Mr. A. E. Tonge exhibited a photograph of a small nest of 

 Vespa sylvestris, which he had found in a pig-sty ; also photo- 

 graphs of the ova {in sitil) of Plebeiits argus {cegon), Ruralis 

 betulcB, and Calaniia Uitosa, all wild laid, the first-named on 

 heath. 



Mr. W.J. Lucas exhibited ateratological specimen of Anosia 

 plcxippus, taken in September, igio, by Mr. S. F'. Irwin, in 

 the grounds of the Toronto Exhibition. The right fore-wing 

 was shorter and narrower than in normal specimens, the 

 outer margin being somewhat more concave. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited representative specimens of 

 several broods reared from a wild female of the black form 

 (ab. nigra) of Boannia geuunaria ; and communicated the 

 following explanatory note : " The original stock from which 

 the whole of the broods were reared was received as larvee 

 in the spring of igo8, their female parent being a wild moth 

 taken during the previous summer in the Kentish locality, 

 but the male parent was not known (' Proceedings ' igo8, p. 

 84). The moths reared from them consisted of exactly 40 per 

 cent, of the ordinary pale, and 60 per cent, of the black 

 form. Pairings were obtained between selected moths of the 

 black form of this brood, and a considerable number of 

 ova were deposited, so that, after hibernation, some sixty 

 odd larvae remained, and these produced in the summer of 



