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of the organization had been useful in preserving paths and open 

 spaces in the districts with which many of the members were 

 familiar, and urging as many members as could to support the 

 work of the Society by subscribing to its funds. 



SEPTEMBER Uth, 1910. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a photograph of several specimens of 

 Lithosia deplana [helveola) sent him by Mr. Cockayne, one being 

 very dark in coloration, and asked if any such melanic examples 

 had previously been recorded. Several members had met with the 

 form, and said that in some seasons it seemed to predominate, while in 

 others it was not observed. Mr. Turner also called attention to a 

 form he was exhibiting in which the hind marginal area of the 

 hindwings was much darker than the discal and basal areas. 



Mr. Grosvenor exhibited an extensive series of Pier is napi taken 

 and bred in 1911, from Surrey, Sussex, Westmorland, Herts, 

 Aberdeen and Fermanagh. (See table, p. 53.) 



Mr. West, of Greenwich, exhibited two species of Hemiptera 

 recently taken by him at Milton, near Gravesend : — Teratocoris 

 antennatits, on rushes, and Nahis lineatiis. He also exhibited the 

 Orthoptera Stenobothrus elegant and IHatyclei.t roeselii from the same 

 locality. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs exhibited long varied series of the Corsican 

 forms of three species of Satyrids that are found in Britain, viz., 

 Sati/KKS seinele var. aristaiis, Pararge uiegiera var. tigelius and 

 Epinephele jiiiiina var. hispulla. The general brightness of colour 

 of these southern specimens was very noticeable. They were all 

 taken by himself during a holiday spent in Corsica from late June 

 to early August. 



Mr. Kaye exhibited a specimen of a rare species of SpIdngidcB, 

 Xylophanes aijlaor taken by himself in the early part of the year in 

 South Brazil. It was a near relative of the well known North 

 American Sphingid, A', tersa. He also exhibited the young larvae 

 of Bmiiicia phhma and of Pliisia bractea. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited empty and occupied galls of Amiricus 

 ostreiis from oak, a few still showing traces of their original brilliant 

 colouring. These galls have been very abundant this year, in 

 places carpeting the roads on which they had fallen. 



Mr. E. Step, on behalf of Mr. Dennisj exhibited the Slipper 

 Limpet, Crepidida foniicata, an American mollusc, which has the 



