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"chocolate tips " to the fore-wings, show clearly their cross 

 parentage. 



Mr. R. Adkin also exhibited a specimen of Vanessa iirticce 

 in which the central, costal, and inner marginal spots were 

 connected by a dark shade, giving the insect a very fasciated 

 appearance. 



Mr. Joseph H. Carpenter exhibited four specimens of 

 Apatura iris bred from larvce taken in the New Forest and 

 hybernated. 



Also, on behalf of Mr. F. A. Oldaker, Parsonage House, 

 Dorking: — (i) Gyn^indronsPolyounnatns {Lycana) icarus; male 

 left side, female right ; taken on June 14th, 1902. (2) Aber- 

 ration of P. (L.) icarits, male underside; marginal spots very 

 faint, and on each wing in place of the usual number of black 

 spots there is a single spot, the rest of the wings being plain 

 ashy grey. Taken on June 7th, 1902. Both were captured 

 on Ranmore Common. 



He further exhibited a male P. (L.) icarus which was un- 

 usually small, being about the normal size of Cupido {LyccBua) 

 minima. Also an aberration of Vanessa antiopa reared from 

 German larvae. On upper wings there was an entire absence 

 of the blue spots, and on the lower wings only one small blue 

 spot was present. 



Mr. Scollick exhibited a variety of Aglais urticce, having 

 the ground colour of wings resembling that of Eiigonia 

 (Vanessa) polychloros. Bred at Merton. 



Mr. Carpenter suggested that the ground colour was exactly 

 the same as that of some specimens he had bred from pupae 

 which had fallen from their suspension and had rested on 

 the earth. It was afterwards found that the imago exhibited 

 had emerged from a fallen pupa. August, 1902. 



Mr. Scollick also showed a curious aberration of Plnsia 

 chrysitis which he had reared in June, 1902, from a larva 

 taken at Ely. The usual area of burnished markings on the 

 left fore-wing was much restricted ; and although the scales 

 were dark there was an absence of lustre. 



Mr. E. J. Hare exhibited a specimen, taken at Marlborough, 

 of Strenia (OpistJiograptis) clathrata, in which nearly the whole 

 of the lighter markings of the type form were obliterated ; 

 also an aberration of Ephippiphora obscurana {gallicolana) 

 having the dorsal blotch suffused with fuscous. 



Mr. J. A. Clark exhibited an almost white aberration of 

 Agrotis siijfusa taken in South Devon September 13th, 1902; 

 also two h3^brids from a crossing between Smcrinthus occllatiis 

 {S) and Amorpha popiili ( ? ), bred August 29th, 1902. 



