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Mr. Lucas exhibited a large number of lantern slides which 

 he had recently made, comprising — 



1. A series illustrating some of the most beautiful spots 

 in the New Forest. 



2. Several showing protective resemblances in insects; and 



3. A series of botanical slides to illustrate various vegetative 

 phenomena. 



NOVEMBER i^fli, 1902. 



Mr. F. NoAD Clark, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Colthrup exhibited a bred series of Lymantvia monacha 

 originating from the New Forest. The forms were mainl}- 

 characterised by being very suffused with black, and the 

 white marking massed towards the base of the fore-wings. 



Mr. R. Adkin stated that he had had a number of larvae 

 from the same source, but that the few imagines that he 

 obtained were quite normal. 



Messrs. Harrison and Main exhibited long series of 

 imagines of Aglais {]uincssa) urticce, reared in 1902. In his 

 remarks on the specimens, which were from Eastbourne, 

 Delamere Forest in Cheshire, and Argyleshire, he stated 

 that the Eastbourne and Argyleshire specimens were bred 

 from single colonies ; the two rows of Cheshire specimens 

 from two separate colonies. 



The Scottish insects are, on the whole, darker, both upper 

 and under surfaces. The two Cheshire colonies are very 

 distinct, one colony having orange or yellow in place of the 

 usual red colour. 



In the Scottish insects and in one colony of the Cheshire, 

 some of the specimens approach the banded form, but there 

 is no sign of this tendency in the other Cheshire or in the 

 Eastbourne insects. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of Lycccna corydon 

 taken at Eastbourne between September i8th and 25th last. 

 He called attention to the late date at which the specimens 

 were taken and to the frequency of blue scaling in the 

 females, also to one of them being minus the two basal spots 

 on the underside of the fore-\\ings. He also exhibited very 

 dark specimens of Acronycta menyanthidis, from Selby, York- 

 shire. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited — (i) A long-bred series of 

 HypsilopJius margincUus, from Banstead Downs. It was a 

 local insect attached to the juniper, but abundant where it 



