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and female, of the genus Oniithoptera, mainly from the 

 larger Malayan islands, and including O. miranda and 0. 

 andromache, two exceptionally rare species. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs exhibited a selected series of Argynnis 

 adippe, captured in the Vosges Mountains of Eastern France 

 between June 28th and August 3rd, 1908. This species, 

 together with its congeners, A. paphia, A. niobe, and A. 

 aglaia, were remarkably abundant on the grassy slopes of 

 the mountains, being sometimes met with in the greatest 

 profusion. They exhibited a great deal of variation and 

 brilliancy of colouring. In some cases the anti-marginal 

 band is remarkably bright and strongly developed, while the 

 ground colour differs very greatly. The var. clcodoxa was 

 occasionally taken. 



Mr. T. W. Hall exhibited a cabinet drawer containing 

 Amorpha populi and Smerinthus occllatus with hybrids ocellatus 

 x populi : Notodonta ziczac and N '. dromedarius with hybrids 

 ziczac x dromedarius; Sclcnia bilunaria {lunaria) and S. tetra- 

 lunaria (illustraria) with hybrids tetralunaria x bilunaria; and 

 Ennonios fuscantaria and E. erosaria (tiliaria) with one hybrid 

 erosaria x fuscantaria. Of this last hybrid only one other 

 specimen is known, and that is contained in the collection 

 of the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



Rev. E. Tarbat exhibited an underside of Melitcea aurinia, 

 with unusually small and lightly marked spots, from Kent ; 

 a Tceniocampa gothica in which the " Hebrew character " on 

 the fore-wings is reduced to two small spots, from Fareham ; 

 a Malacosoma neustria with a very broad band cf uniform 

 width across the upper wings, from Fareham ; and a box 

 containing specimens of forty-one species of moths, taken 

 when settled on a white wall, near a strong electric light in 

 the High Street, Fareham, and including Stauropus fagi, 

 Luperina cespitis, Nonagria typhcc, Triphcena jantliina, Epunda 

 nigra, Cirrhcedia xerampelina, Ennomos autumnaria, etc. 



Dr. Hodgson exhibited selected series of Plebeius argus 

 {agon), from Lancashire, E. Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, 1904 

 — '1908, the most notable being a female with several discal 

 spots on the upper side of each primary, with blue about the 

 underside of the right wing, and a male with two silver studs 

 confluent. 



Mr. E. Step exhibited " Fungi of 1908," a series of fifty 

 photos, taken chiefly at Ashtead and Oxshott, most of these 

 in their natural environment, and many of the natural size. 



Mr. \Y. West, of Greenwich, exhibited four cases contain- 

 ing his collection of the British species of Homoptera, in- 



