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of the ab. obsoleta type, but having the ground colour of the under- 

 side white striated with grey and without the usual spots on the 

 border. Several specimens were ab. striata, and several were 

 asymmetrical as regards size and markings. Long series of 

 Celastrina argioliis, including specimens of four broods captured 

 during the present year, among them several very dwarf forms, 

 extra large females, and a slate-coloured male from Worthing. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited various species of Syntomidfe that he 

 had taken on flowers in South Brazil, and remarked on the large 

 number of species that occurred in tropical South America, 

 forming at times quite the feature of the collecting. Nearly all the 

 specimens exhibited were taken in the early morning, and it was 

 found that as soon as the sun began to gain power the Syntomidae 

 very largely disappeared. The species exhibited included Xapata 

 euryane, Napata splendicia, Napata castra, Trichura dixanthia, 

 Trichura grandis, Cyanopepla jncunda, Coreitra atavia, Mallndcta 

 san<iuipimcta, Mesolasia paula, Mesolasia inelanohasis, Callojiepla 

 inachia, Cyanopepla orbona, Chrysostola variegata, Argyra-ides 

 sanguinea, Argyra;ides ophion, Pheia Juemapera, Tipnlodes iwa, Sanita 

 vielanifera, Cosmosoma :vanthistin, Agyrta dii.v, Euagra oznrca and 

 many others. 



Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited European Diurni including 

 unusually fine selected series of Kuchlo'e euphenoides, from the 

 Riviera and the South of Spain ; Zegris enjtheuie var. meridionalis 

 from Granada ; Leptosia sinapis from many localities ; Lejitima 

 duponcheli from Digne; Tliah polyxena, bred, from Buda-Pest, with 

 ab. ochracea, and var. cassandra from the South of France ; Thais 

 ruDiina and ab. cantencri from Andalusia ; var. niedesicanU' from 

 Southern France, and ab. Iwnoratii from Digne ; Polygonia c-album 

 from many localities, all the specimens being ab. Jnitchinsoni : 

 I'nlygonia egea, bred and captured, from the Riviera; and Arasclmia 

 levana with var. prorsa, and intermediate specimens obtained by 

 subjecting pupae, which would normally produce var. prorata, to cold. 



Mr. G. E. Frisby exhibited nearly all the British species of the 

 genera Andrena and Cilissa. 



Mr. Carpenter reminded the members that some years ago the 

 late Mr. Winkley took a specimen of C. nxpta at Streatham 

 precisely like that of Mr. Smith's ; and Mr. Scorer reported another 

 similar example from North London. 



Mr. Scobell remarked how necessary it was scientifically to make 

 dissections of all those specimens which were supposed to be 

 gynandromorphous, as Mr. Edwards' specimen had been. Mr. 



