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i. e. area of wings dark brown, with a paler band. The 

 Oxshott specimens were very large and brightly coloured, 

 the band traversing the fore-wings being almost black. 



(2) Anthrocera purpuralis {uiinos), taken in Perth. These 

 were considered to be more distinctly marked than is usual in 

 this species. 



(3) A variety of Abraxas orrossulariata, believed to be 

 peculiar to Perth. It was a small, rather dark, prettily-marked 

 form, of which a great many individuals have the markings 

 asymmetrical on the fore-wings. There is also a form, believed 

 to be peculiar to Hawick ; unfortunately, he did not possess 

 a specimen to exhibit. This form is very large and pale, 

 the usual spots on the fore-wings being replaced by thin 

 black dashes. Hind wings pure white, sometimes slightly 

 spotted. 



(4) A number of specimens of Epinephcle ianira, taken at 

 Lyndhurst, each having one or more wings more or less 

 bleached. This phase of aberration was rather common at 

 Lyndhurst in 1902, and was very conspicuous, the pale 

 mark giving them a strange appearance when flying. 



(5) Epinephele tithonns, taken at Lyndhurst, having the dark 

 band of the right hind wing replaced with fawn colour. 



(6) Melanippe sociata, a specimen taken at Wimbledon, 

 having the median band greatly reduced ; within a few yards 

 of this specimen, on the same fence, a similar var. of M. 

 flnduata was taken. 



Mr. Rayward exhibited ova of Pachnobia rubricosa and 

 of Saturnia pavonia, from females taken at Wimbledon and 

 in the New Forest respectively. He also showed the larva 

 of Noctua baja and an ichneumon, bred from a larva of 

 Pericallia syringaria (Brockenhurst), together with the pupa- 

 case, showing the silken thread, three inches or so long, by 

 which it hangs suspended from a leaf or twig of the plant 

 on which the host has fed. 



Mr. Dennis exhibited a photograph of a fine plant of 

 Petasites officinalis from the Lea Valley. Mr. Turner remarked 

 that Mr. South and he had met with a very large quantity ot 

 this plant in full bloom on May 5th, 1903, adjoining the canal 

 beyond Rickmansworth. 



Mr. Tonge exhibited an album of another set of photo- 

 graphs of ova recently taken by him. They were all magnified 

 20 diameters : (i) T. polyxena var. cassnndra, received from 

 Dr. Chapman; (2) C. argioliis, received from Dr. Chapman; 

 {3) D. pudibunda, received from Mr. L. W Newman ; (4) S. 

 carpini, received from Mr. L. W. Newman ; (5) N. cliaonia^ 



