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Ordinary Meeting. 



Messrs. Alfred Holding, of Stoke Newington, N., W. 

 Rodgers, of Camberwell, S.E., and W. H. Knight, of 

 Peckham, S.E., were elected members. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner, on behalf of Mr. A. Murray, of St. 

 Anne's-on--Sea, exhibited a series of forms of Liiperina gneneci 

 taken by Mr. Murray at the above place, and communicated 

 the following note: "The series includes quite fresh and 

 worn examples of typical L. giiencci, and of the so-called 

 var. baxteri, and, in addition, several specimens of two other 

 forms much more markedly distinct from this type than is 

 var. baxteri. Indeed, these latter are so close that the differ- 

 ence has been expressed as being ' merely due to the pale 

 grey ground-colour having, in the course of time, assumed a 

 somewhat ochreous tinge,' which view cannot be upheld, as 

 a comparison of the perfectly fresh and the worn examples 

 in the box clearly demonstrates. In L. gncncci of the type 

 form the fore-wings are 'pale testaceous' in ground, with 

 little contrast between the markings and the ground-colour, 

 which contrast in the worn specimen is seen to be consider- 

 ably less. There is a distinct ' ochreous tinge ' in some 

 lights in the type form, which can only be faintly perceived 

 in the worn example of var. baxteri, and is not at all apparent 

 in the quite fresh specimen of this form. I would also dis- 

 tinguish var. baxteri by the greater contrast between the 

 ground colour and the depth of colour of the markings. 

 Turning to the first of the two new forms sent to me by- 

 Mr. Murray, I note that, in depth of colour both of ground 

 and markings, it is typical L. giieneei, with this very marked 

 difference, that the submarginal area between the dark 

 marginal lunules and the submarginal line is much paler 

 than any other portion of the wing, throwing out these dark 

 lunules very conspicuousl}'. In the worn specimen this 

 feature is even more apparent than in the perfectly fresh 

 example. This form appears to be quite as much worth a 

 distinctive name as does that called var. baxteri, and I have 

 designated it ab. iniirrayi from its captor. In var. baxteri I note 

 that this submarginal area, instead of being lighter, is, on the 

 contrary, distinguishably darker than the general wing colour. 



" The other three specimens in the box are undoubtedl}' 

 L. gueneei in all their characters except colour. So dark are 

 they that we must term them melanic. All the markings 

 are much intensified ; the ground-colour is very dark grey, 

 with faint flushes of a ferruginous tinge. The contrast 



