breeding out the first brood, and on July ist I had two of 

 the females captured in April still alive and laying, and their 

 children out and doing the same, so that the two broods (the 

 hibernated females and the summer brood) were both on the 

 wing on the same day. I can also say, that not a day has 

 passed between June 20th and November ist without one 

 or more specimens emerging from the pupae in my cages. 

 The last specimen to emerge was on November 22nd ; and I 

 think one could net P. c-album in the wild on any day 

 between March and November providing, of course, that the 

 weather was warm and sunny. 



" To go back to the first 80 eggs : when the larvae 

 hatched, and had fed a week or so, the nettle leaves were 

 picked off and placed in a sleeve on a fine young elm ; the 

 larvae fed up very well on this change of diet, and the first 

 65 specimens to emerge were all the var. hutchinsoni. No. 66 

 was a dark upper side — all the rest (some 800 or so) were 

 also all of the dark upper side form. 



" Now I think this clearly proves that it is only the first 

 few eggs laid which produce the var. hutchinsoni. I placed 

 in my cage twelve females and twelve males of the var., and 

 by 5 p.m. there were twelve pairs in cop. Two or three days 

 later, when the dark upper sides began to emerge freelv, I 

 placed three of each sex in the same cage, but they would 

 not even " make love " to each other, nor would the females 

 allow the males of the var. hutchinsoni (still alive in the cage) 

 to have anything to do with them, though the latter were 

 only too ready to pair. They behaved exactly like the 1905 

 specimens, and soon started going into corners ; and to-day 

 I have three of them comfortably hibernating, though the 

 other three have " gone home " from some unknown cause. 



" The last specimen to emerge from the summer brood was 

 on August 24th, and the first of the autumn brood on 

 August 1 8th, so that they overlapped well, and I have had 

 c-album in all stages at the same time during the greater part 

 of the summer. 



" I have now given you three separate years' experience, 

 and each year has proved to me that the two facts I stated 

 are correct." 



Mr. Newman also exhibited a considerable number of 

 paintings of sundry varieties bred and captured by him during 

 1908, including a fine series of Dry as paphia, var. bred from 

 New Forest ova; and of Chrysophanus (Hcodcs) phlccas, vars. 

 captured at Bexley, etc. In addition he showed a specimen 

 on setting board of Abraxas grossulariata, in which the whole 



