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Mr. Dobson exhibited a ver}/ light specimen of Amphipyra 

 pyrainidea, taken in his garden this year. He stated that, 

 ahhough he had sugared persistently in the same place for 

 thirty-eight years, he had never before taken the species at 

 Maiden. For comparison he showed an ordinary New- 

 Forest form which was distinctly suffused with mahogany 

 colour. 



On behalf of his son, he exhibited (i) a bred specimen of 

 PygcBva ciirtida, which was deep in colour, with a light- 

 coloured example taken on a lamp at Maiden ; (2) a series 

 of large and rich examples of Spilosoma ftdiginosa, bred, with 

 a small one captured in the New Forest on June 8th. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited a book on fungi containing 

 nearly forty plates. It was published in 1759 in Italy. 

 The author, Battara, was one of the pioneers in the study of 

 fungi, and a genus is named after him. 



Dr. Chapman read a paper on an excursion to Spain last 

 summer. He detailed his route, some travelling experiences, 

 and some of the features of the collecting grounds visited. 

 He exhibited a number of the specimens taken, calling 

 attention speciall}- to the Erebia evias and E. stygne, taken, 

 flying together, and resembling one another very closely in 

 size, colour, and in the E. evias losing the apical eye, and 

 so approaching in marking to E. stygne; differing in these 

 respects from the better-known alpine form of the species, 

 which seldom or never fly together, and differ considerably 

 in size, colour, and markings. Some E. evias very much 

 approached E. zapateri, a species in an adjacent region, but 

 with which E. evias cannot occur, as E. zapateri is a month 

 or more later in emergence, even should they occur on the 

 same ground, which is not improbable. A group of homseo- 

 chromatic butterflies from Guetbary were also remarked 

 on, viz. Satyrus dry as, Cccnonympha cedipus and Heteropterns 

 morpheus, all very dark in colour, flying lazily together in 

 small swamps, and wholly unmixed with the butterflies of 

 various other colorations, abundant both in species and 

 specimens, in the country around. Especial attention was 

 called to a new form of Heterogynis {H. canalensis) to 

 Pyraiista alborividalis, new to Western Europe, and to a 

 new Psychid, Pyropsyche nwncaunella (" Ent. Record," xv, 

 p. 324). 



The Society is indebted to Dr. Chapman for copies of the 

 plate illustrating the life-history and structural details of 

 Pyropsyche vwncaiinella. 



