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3- Species struggling to settle in the Margate district. 

 Two specimens of E. lichenca and five specimens of Lencania 

 viiellina. A female of the latter species laid a dozen eggs, 

 but up to the present these have not hatched. Together 

 with Lencania albipuncta and Heliotlih armigera, all were 

 captured on the 21st and 22nd of September, igoo, at sugar. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited a series of Pa/)//?o ;7mc/mo«, from 

 Greece, light varieties ; India, large dark forms taken at an 

 altitude of gooo feet at Kulu ; Amur, small dark-veined 

 variet}' ; Japan, var. hippocyafcs, etc. 2. A series of 7^. xutlnis, 

 from China and Japan. 



Mr. A. Harrison exhibited long and varied series of A'fl?;//z/a 

 aiirago, Scopelosoma saiellitia, and Miselia oxyacanihcc with v. 

 capucina, all taken at sugar at Chingford in October this 

 year. 



Mr. Main exhibited two specimens ofCoIias editsava.r. helice, 

 bred from ova laid by a female helice taken at Hanwell. 

 They emerged in October. 



Mr. Mera exhibited several very dark varieties o{ Abraxas 

 grossulariata, bred and captured at Forest Gate, and also 

 from Aberdeen. He also exhibited a specimen of Cccno- 

 nympha paniphiliis, having the under surface of the left hind- 

 wing of the colour of the upper wing. 



Rev. J. E. Tarbat exhibited Lepidoptera : — (i) a ver}^ dark 

 specimen of the banded form of Hybernia defoliaria (bred). 

 (2) Staiiropiis fagi, female, bred August i8th, 1900, from 

 spring ova. 



Birds eggs : — (i) Blackbird {Tiirdiis mernla), two pale blue 

 varieties; (2) ChdL^nch. {Fr in gill a c celebs), five pale blue varieties 

 made up of two different clutches taken in two successive 

 years in same garden at Reading, second year's smaller 

 than first ; (3) Bullfinch fPyrrhula enropcEa),^\e white varieties 

 made up out of different clutches taken two successive years 

 in the same hedge at Weybridge. (4) Blackheaded gull 

 {Lams ridibnndits), four specimens of a pale blue variety, 

 three with more or less markings, and one without markings. 

 All from Scoulton Mere, Norfolk. 



Mr. R. Armstrong Adkin exhibited British land-shells, 

 viz. a series of Helix caperata taken near Otford, Kent, on 

 Sunday last, which showed much variation for one locality. 

 Also oi Helix virgata, from various localities, showing con- 

 siderable variation, some of a horn-colour, with ver}' faint 

 bands, from Greenwich Marshes, being especially remark- 

 able. 



Mr. S. W, Kemp exhibited a variety of Epinephele iamm, 



