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rarest of the British Agabi, and quite attached to moun- 

 tainous districts. 



Mr. Fred Knock exhibited (^ and ? specimens of the 

 dragon-fly Ovtlidrum cancellatuui, captured in cop. at Wisley 

 Lake, JiTly 20th, " after four or tive hours of the wettest 

 work I have ever known. For between four and five hours 

 Mr. Kemp and I were dashing through the shallows, where 

 cancellatitui was flying up and down some twenty or thirty feet 

 from the edge. Both of us had our long boots on, which 

 enabled us to get out twenty feet, but with this advantage can- 

 cellatum was far beyond our reach, and during all the time 

 not one of the half-dozen seen settled more than once, and 

 then on a bush well out in the water. At last we each saw a 

 pair in cop., after which we sneaked, ran, splashed, and 

 dashed. Once I got within striking distance, and did strike 

 the branch of a tree, but saw the pair go onward and 

 upward together, and I saw them come down together, sail 

 away almost beyond my sight, but I splashed along, and 

 once more saw them pitch at the extreme edge of some 

 rushes, just beyond the depth of my boot tops. I drew 

 near, nearer, set my teeth, took a final measurement, and 

 struck ; then yelled to Mr. Kemp, ' Got them both.' When 

 safely bottled I noticed that the abdomen of the female was 

 equally of the same lovely blue colour as that of the male, 

 and that both had been in the wars a long time." 



SEPTEMBER 12th, 1901. 



Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. South exhibited two buff specimens of Amphidasys 

 betularia, which had been for years in his collection, and 

 also a buff example of var. doubledayaria, which he had 

 received from a correspondent. He remarked that the 

 antennae in the former were normal, and in the latter were 

 bufi^. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a much suffused black variety of 

 2.nArgynnis, sp., which in shape agreed with A. aglaia, but in 

 markings on the underside agreed with A. adippe to a large 

 extent. It was taken in N. Spain, and was somewhat the 

 worse for wear. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited for Mr. H. E. Annett a variety of 

 ApJiantopns {Epinephele) hyperanthus, which approached var. 

 arete, the usual eye-spots on the under surface very much 



