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— Four Heodes {Chry soph anus) phlcEas, one dark and one light 

 (from Ashford, Kent, 1895), one with blue spots on hind wings; 

 four female Nyssia lapponaria, bred 1903, Perthshire ; six 

 Hypsipetes {Hydrioinena) e/w^a^a, moorland forms, Yorks., 1903; 

 one example of H. elutata with red bars on the fore-wings, 

 Ashford, Kent, 1903; four Spilosoma lubricepeda v. radiata, 

 black fringed, very dark, bred near Huddersfield, 1903; and 

 eight other dark specimens of the same form from the same 

 source. 



Mr. MacArthur exhibited three aberrant specimens of 

 Amorpha {Smerinthus) populi — (i) a very pale example ; (2) a 

 strongly reddish example ; (3) an unusually well-marked 

 male specimen ; and (41 a photograph of a remarkable 

 underside of Pieris rapes, in which the lower wing had two 

 large distinct black spots on the disc. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited specimens oi Argynnis aglaia, 

 taken near Brighton in July last, including a male example, 

 in which the dark marginal markings were extended inwards, 

 in the case of the fore-wings coalescing with the submarginal 

 spots, and in that of the hind wings enclosing them ; and 

 on the underside the silvery basal spots were elongated, and ■ 

 joined up with the second row, thus forming three broad silvery 

 stripes, extending from the base nearly to the centre of the 

 wing. One in which the submarginal black spots were 

 unusually large ; and three unusually richly coloured females. 

 Also a partially bleached female specimen of Epinephele 

 ianira from the same locality ; a male specimen of Cleora 

 glabraria in which a black patch extended from the base to 

 near the centre of the fore-wings, from the New Forest ; 

 strongly marked examples of Zonosoma linearia from Good- 

 wood ; and a specimen of Smerinthus ocellaius-popuU hybrid, 

 which emerged, July loth, 1903, from a larva reared in 

 1901, it having remained for two years all but one month 

 in pupa. 



Mr. Adkin also exhibited a long series of Boarmia repan- 

 data from various English, Scotch, and Irish localities, to 

 show the great local variation which occurs in that species. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a large number of specimens of 

 Heodes [Chrysophanns] phlceas, taken in various parts of 

 Western Europe, especially to illustrate the geographical 

 and seasonal variation of the species, rather than to show 

 the range of aberration to which it was subject. He made 

 particular reference to the size, and the influences which 

 control it ; to the form, particularly with regard to the tail 

 development ; and to the colour, its richness, increase or 



