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the forms were so similar in general appearance, it does not appear 

 an absolute certainty which they were. Hence the further confusion. 



The third specimen was a worn Luperina sp. ? about which there 

 was some doubt. It was taken in the same place as the last two 

 and was of a rough texture, dusty grey in colour, and was probably 

 a form of L. cespitis, but of a small obscurely marked race, which 

 is said to occur along the Lancashire and Sussex coasts. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited a specimen of the very beautiful Leaf- 

 moth Gloriana (Phyllodes) ornata, from India. 



Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited sticks of sallow containing larvae 

 of Trochilium bembeciforuie {crabronifuniiis), some of which were in 

 quite small dead twigs, while others were in large living stems. He 

 also showed sticks of sallow containing the larvae of the Musk-beetle, 

 Aromia moHcliata, feeding side by side with the larvae of T. benihe- 

 dforme, which they very much resemble in their methods of working 

 in the stems and also in their mode of pupation. In a glass topped 

 box he showed a living specimen of ^3^;ieria cnlicifnrniis, which he had 

 bred that day, after some sixteen days forcing. At the same time 

 he was forcing on larvae of Arctia caia and Calliniorpha doiiiinida, some 

 of which he exhibited and which were full fed. Restated that some 

 of the larvae of the former species had not responded to the forcing 

 at all and were still quite small. 



The President exhibited a varied series of Spilosoina Inbricipeda, 

 with many forms of the variety zatiwa. He briefly mentioned the 

 occurrence of the species in Britain, which had only been recorded 

 by Haworth and later by Dale, in 1837, from Saltfleet, Lines., till 

 1891, when Mr. J. Harrison bred a female. Having paired it with 

 a strongly marked northern male, he obtained a stock, from which 

 thousands were obtained by inbreeding. For the past ten years the 

 variety had apparently been lost sight of, and Mr. Kaye asked if 

 members knew of its recent occurrence. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited specimens of Agrotis nigricans of a very 

 dark form to compare with the black example Mr. Turner was 

 showing from St. Anne's-on-Sea. These specimens also came from 

 St. Anne's, but were not so dark as the later example. 



The remainder of the evening was devoted to the exhibition of 

 lantern slides. 



Mr. A. E. Tonge exhibited about a dozen slides, each containing 

 the life-history of a British Butterfly. 



Mr. Edwards showed a long series of slides illustrative of the 

 anatomy of the Lepidoptera. 



Mr. Main exhibited a number of slides illustrating the structure 



