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mere Forest this year. They showed a considerable amount 

 of variation, and there was one particularly pale specimen. 



(7) Series of Hipparchia {Satvrns) semele from Cornwall 

 and from Eastbourne. The specimens from the chalk at 

 Eastbourne had the undersides of all the wings much lighter 

 than the Cornish specimens. 



(8) A series of M elanargia galatea from Cornwall. 



Dr. John H. Spitzby exhibited and discussed the variation 

 of (i) series of Edmund Reitter's group of Carabi multi- 

 setosi (setai in groups on labial palpi) ; interesting because 

 this group is placed about the middle of the groups into 

 which Reitter divides the genus Carabus. Platycarabus 

 creutzeri, from Austria ; Platycarabus depressus, from Austrian 

 Alps; Chcetocarabus intricatiis, Jurs. iind Austria.; Chcztocara- 

 bus adonis, Greece ; Mesocarabns catcnnlatus. Jura, France, 

 England and Scotland ; Mesocarabns genei, Corsica ; Mcgo- 

 donULs violaceus, Lake of Lucerne, England (Leicester and 

 Kent) ; Megodontus v. purpurascens, France and Austria. 



(2) Series of varieties of Cctonia aurata and Potosia cuprea. 

 Cetonia aurata v. piligera, Switzerland ; v. Incidula, Monte 

 Bre, Lugano ; v. pisana, Monte Bre, Lugano ; v. valesiaca, 

 France ; v. hispanica, Malaga ; Potosia cuprea v. cuprea, 

 Lugano ; v. obscura, Lugano ; v. metallica, Lugano ; v. trans- 



fuga, Italy. 



(3) Potosia ajjinis v. mirifica, Syria ; Cetonischnia ceruginosa, 

 Lugano ; and C. speciosa \. jonsselini, Syria. 



Dr. Sequiera exhibited a box of most interesting and 

 remarkable varieties of Lepidoptera, including Vanessa io, 

 uniformly suffused with slate-blue ; Catocala nupta, with 

 smoky-black margins ; Polygonia c- album, an underside with- 

 out any trace of the usually conspicuous white " comma " 

 mark ; Hemcrophila abruptaria, strongly marked melanic 

 forms from the New Forest ; N emeophila russula, female with 

 wholly black hind wings ; Colias edusa, with pale scales 

 uniformly strewn over the black portions, making the mnrginal 

 bands very light; and Anthrocera {Zygcena) filipendula, with 

 very pale salmon markings. 



Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited specimens of (i) Labidnra 

 viparia, which had the last two seasons been found somewhat 

 commonly near Bournemouth. They were extremely pale, 

 resembling the sand, but get dark in drying. He said that 

 the lightest specimen had not faded much. 



(2) A pupa oi Lucanns cervus, and stated that it was found 

 in a kind of cocoon, but the appendages were free, as in the 

 specimen at present. 



