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Epincphelc lycaon, with three large black spots on the fore- 

 wings instead of the usual two, etc. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited the following Diptera, taken this 

 year in the neighbourhood of Lake Chad, Northern Nigeria : 

 — A short series of a tsetse-fly, probably Glossina palpalis 

 (Rob. Desv.), the species credited with infecting man with 

 the "Sleeping sickness" ; Tabanus africanns (Gray), a gad- 

 fly widely distributed over Africa, south of the Sahara, but 

 only recently discovered so far North-west. 



The remainder of the evening was devoted to the exhibi- 

 tion of lantern slides by Messrs. Dennis, West (Ashtead) 

 Tonge, and Main. 



NOVEMBER 26 fh, 1908. 



Mr. Adlard, of Bartholomew Close, E.C., was elected a 

 member. 



This evening was the Annual Exhibition of Varieties. 



Mr. South exhibited, and made some remarks upon, series 

 of Cirrhcedia (Conistra) vaccinii, and of C. liquid, which he 

 had received from the Continent, chiefly from German}'. 



" In Britain specimens of C. ligula are always somewhat 

 smaller than the majority of the examples of C. vaccinii, but 

 in Germany there seems to be little difference, as a rule, 

 between the two species in the matter of size ; although a 

 few specimens of C. ligula, especially those of the typical 

 form, are rather larger than the general run of C. vaccinii. 



" It will be seen that the specimens labelled C. vaccinii are 

 reddish-chestnut in colour, and some of them approach ab. 

 rufa, Tutt, in general character. Among the eight specimens 

 labelled ab. mixta, Staudinger, are three that appear referable 

 to ab. variegata, Tutt ; three others seem to agree with the 

 description of ab. ochvca, Tutt ; one specimen is intermediate 

 between these sub-varieties, and another has the discal area 

 sprinkled with brownish. 



" Five examples are labelled ab. spadicea, Hiibner, but 

 only one of these can, correctly, be referred to that form ; in 

 two other brightly-coloured examples, one inclining to 

 ochreous and one to reddish, the central shade is absent, the 

 first and second lines are conspicuously edged with black, 

 and the costa has an interrupted black edging. 



" The two specimens from Central Russia were sent as 

 forms of C. vaccinii, but were not furnished with names. 

 One of these I make out to be ab. signata, Klemensiewiez, 



