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OCTOBER 2.2nd, 1903. 



The President in the Chair. 



Mr. C. W. Simmonds, of Tufnell Park, N., and Mr. J. 

 Ovenden, of Frindsbury, Rochester, were elected members. 



Mr. South exhibited very interesting series of Zygcvna 

 trifolii and A. filipcndulce from various locahties, together 

 with varieties, and some supposed hybrids, and read the 

 following notes on the exhibit. 



" At the end of July and the beginning of August this 

 year I made one or two entomological excursions to Wey- 

 bridge and the district around. Although captures of 

 insects on these occasions were not very numerous, the 

 journeys were not wholly devoid of interesting result. A 

 weakness for overhauling specimens of any species subject 

 to aberration induced me to pay a visit to a spot near the 

 canal where Zygcena trifolii is fairly abundant in some 

 seasons. This year, however, it was not common in its old 

 haunt, and I only saw about a dozen there altogether Oddly 

 enough, two of these were varieties worth taking, and a 

 third had a small extra dot between spots 3 and 5. A 

 few days later, in company with Mr. Scollick, I went 

 down to the same ground, but there were then no trifolii 

 to be seen there, so we determined to hunt up the new 

 home of the species, and after considerable roaming about 

 we succeeded in doing this. 



" However, before we came upon trifolii we struck a colony 

 oi Z. filipcndulce, and on examining the specimens, which, as 

 the day was rather gloomy, were resting on the grass and 

 other herbage around, we found several examples agreeing 

 exactly with the form of the species I had previously 

 obtained at Northwood, Middlesex, in May and June, and 

 which were referred to var. hippocrepidis, Steph. (" Entom." 

 XXX, p. 181). We also found what was still more important, 

 four mixed pairs of trifolii X filipcndidcc ; in all cases the 

 male belonged to Z. trifolii. I took two of these pairs, and 

 afterwards gave one of them to Mr. F. B. Carr, who informs 

 me that the female deposited ova, from which he now has 

 larvae feeding. The female of my pair also laid a good batch 

 of eggs and the larvae subsequently hatched. Unfortunately 

 I lost the majority through being unable to give them the 

 necessary attention. At the present moment I have only 

 three alive, but these seem to be doing well on a plant of 



