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dark variety of Mclitoea atJialia. The last three were from 

 Spain. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a beautiful series of Ambulyx 

 rostralis, with the light form considered by some as a distinct 

 species, and named A. ganascus. Both occur in the same 

 localities. Whether the form ganascus alwa3^s occurs there 

 is no record to show. A. rostralis is found fairly commonly, 

 but never abundantly, in Central America, in the West 

 Indies, where it is rare, and in tropical South America. The 

 series exhibited comprises specimens from Rio Janeiro, 

 Merida, Venezuela, and Jalapa, Mexico, and shows a certain 

 amount of variation. There are three (2 S and i ? ) 

 specimens of an allied species, A. donysa from Mexico. A 

 peculiarity with these species of Ambulyx with red hind 

 wings is that on the underside the colouring is reversed, the 

 fore-wing having the red and the hind wing wholly wanting 

 it ; the black bands are even reproduced on the red of the 

 fore-wing in rostralis. 



Messrs. Harrison and Main exhibited, among other species, 

 varied series of Triplucna comes from the New Forest, Dela- 

 mere Forest, Epping Forest, Wallasey sand-hills, and the 

 Isle of Lewis ; also of Agroiis triiici and A. cnrsoria from the 

 Isle of Lewis and Wallasey. 



Supplementing Mr. Harrison's exhibit, Mr. R. Adkin 

 exhibited the following from the Isle of Lewis^ viz. Triphcrna 

 coDies, including ordinary forms, the variety curtisii, and one 

 example having a broad, dark central fascia on the upper 

 wings ; the red colour of the var. curtisii he thought hardly 

 so bright as in examples from Forres and some other of the 

 Scottish mainland localities ; Xylophasia monoglypha, all of 

 the blackish-brown form ; Noctua xanthographa, chiefly dark 

 forms having a purplish blush ; a long series of Boarmia 

 rcpandata, var. sodorcnsiuui ; a very strongly marked example 

 of Larcntia didymata, and one of Corcmia fcrrngata that 

 varied in an opposite direction, the general tone of colour 

 being unusually dull. 



Mr, Adkin also exhibited the specimen of Pieris daplidice 

 that he took at Eastbourne on August igth last, and 

 examples of C alias liyale and C. ednsa taken at the same 

 time and place. 



Mr. H. M. Montgomery exhibited — 



I. Pieris napi, L., var. bryonies, [a) Twenty-eight males 

 and twenty-six females, bred from a specimen taken at 

 Myringen, Switzerland, by Mr. A. Harrison, July gth, igoo. 

 The egg stage lasted four days ; the larval stage lasted four- 



