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(2) Centra bifida bred ab ovo from a female taken at 

 Reigate, July 12th, 1907. 



(3) A long series of Agrotis cursoria ; sixty specimens taken 

 near Lowestoft, Suffolk, August 15th — 30th, 1908, including 

 most of the recognised varieties, except those with red 

 ground. 



(4) A long series of Hydrcecia nictitans ; forty-nine speci- 

 mens from the same locality, showing great variation. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited series of Rhodophcea suavclla 

 and R. marmorea, together with branches of blackthorn 

 showing the larval webs, and some cocoons of the first- 

 named species. The web having the denser tubular structure 

 he believed was that of R. marmorea, and that this species 

 pupated in the web. The webs, where the tubular structure 

 was of a less well-defined nature, he thought, were those of 

 R. suavclla, which species left the web to pupate, and formed 

 its cocoon of rubbish on the surface of the earth. The larva; 

 were collected near Eastbourne from very stunted and 

 unhealthy-looking blackthorn bushes in June ; and the moths 

 appeared— .R. marmorea in the last week in July, and 

 R. suavclla in the second and third weeks in August. 



He also exhibited a specimen of Pcronea permutana reared 

 from larvae taken in Rosa spinosissima near Beachy Head. 

 He said that Barrett in "The Natural History of the British 

 Lepidoptera " gives "near Beachy Head" as one of the 

 localities for this species, he believed on the authority of a 

 single example bred by Mr. South some years ago. Since 

 that time both Mr. South and himself had made many 

 attempts to again find the species, but although they had 

 frequently found workings that suggested its presence they 

 had not been successful in getting the insect. In June last 

 several small larvae were taken in the rose, some of which 

 produced P. varicgana, but of others that lingered on through 

 July, and of which the majority died, one produced the 

 specimen now exhibited. Both this and Mr. South's speci- 

 men appeared to be somewhat paler than the usual Wallasey 

 form. He also exhibited unusually light and dark forms of 

 Tortrix hcparana from Eastbourne and Lewisham. 



Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited a very fine example of 

 Abraxas grossulariata, ab. varleyata, female, bred from ova 

 October 22nd, 1908, as a second brood. In 1907 ova were 

 obtained from a female varleyata paired with a typical male, 

 and the whole brood produced the most ordinary typical 

 form, with no trace of varleyata. These were paired, and 

 owing to abnormal weather about twenty-five larvae fed up 



