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margin of all the wings almost entirely torn away. A pale, dull, 

 banded specimen of EpJn/m linearia, taken in Epping Forest by 

 Mr. S. P. Betts, in June, 1908. In addition to its unusually pale 

 colour, the second tranversed line of all the wings was somewhat 

 broader than usual, and the space between it and the third line was 

 irrorated with purplish-brown. A specimen of Enwicia {Chri/so- 

 phanns) phhras, referable to var. eleiis, Fab., which was taken in 

 Surrey ; also an example of ab. schmidtii, captured by the Rev. W. 

 Claxton in Essex. Six of the more unusual forms of Sarmthripa 

 undidanuii (revai/ana) occurring in the New Forest, where the 

 species is highly polymorphic. An extensive series of LepUviramwa 

 literana, chiefly from the New Forest. As arranged, about 35 

 modifications in colour and markings were indicated. These include 

 the forms named — axperana, Schiflf., (cnii/aua, Hiibn., fquamulana, 

 Hiibn., irrorana, Hiibn., squaniana, Fab., tricolorana, Haw., fiilvo- 

 mixtana, Stph., romanana, Fab., and olirana, Rebel. The last 

 named variety seems to be the rarest of the named forms of L. 

 literana occurring in Britain ; the specimen shown, which w^as 

 taken in the New Forest this year, is the only one he bad seen. 



Mr. South, on behalf of the Rev. A. P. Waller, exhibited the 

 series of the Leucania, with L. favicolor and L. pallens, shown at 

 the last meeting. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited series of Abra.ras f/rosmdariata, 

 arranged to show various forms captured or reared from wild larvte 

 and forms " reared under domestication," i.e., obtained by breeding 

 for many generations from selected parents, together with more or 

 less typical forms for comparison, and called attention to the 

 infinite variety of the wild forms. 



He also exhibited a specimen of Zonosoma orbictdaria, reared 

 during the past summer from a New Forest larva, in which the 

 whole of the wings were of a rich red-brown, becoming almost 

 black at the margins, the only markings being a faint indication 

 of the sub-marginal white line on the fore-wings, and minute 

 white dots on the hind-wings. A form of Melanippe fluctnata, 

 captured near Colchester this year, in which the usual dark costal 

 patch was united with the basal patch by a narrow dark line along 

 the costa, and continued across the wing as a dark fascia, much 

 constricted beyond the middle and broadened out on the inner 

 miargin. Many of the usual transverse lines were absent. 



Mr. A. A. W. Buckstone exhibited, among other species, a 

 specimen of Brenthis selene with most of the transverse markings 

 absent from the base and disc of the wings. 



