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(lo) A short series, mainly females of particularly strongly 

 marked P. napi, from Kilkenny, brought by Mr. Montgomery, 

 for comparison with the other P. napi. These were of the 

 spring brood, bred from ova laid by the summer brood, and 

 showed the species in perhaps its darkest form for this brood. 



Mr. Montgomery exhibited a series of Lencophasia sinapis, 

 consisting of bred and captured specimens, of both broods, 

 from Berkshire, Cornwall, Devonshire, Worcestershire, and 

 the New Forest, showing a certain amount of seasonal and 

 geographical variation. 



Mr. Hickman exhibited an extremely dark aberration of 

 Arctia caia, and contributed the following note : 



" On August ist, 1903, at Wye, in Kent, I found a pair of 

 A rdia caia. They were sitting on bramble by the side of a ditch, 

 and the female subsequently deposited about one hundred 

 ova. Larvse from these hatched six days later. They fed on 

 bramble for about six weeks, then a number of them died. The 

 others continued feeding and growing, but very slowly, through 

 thewinter,and began to pupate in April, 1904, the moths com- 

 mencing to emerge on June 4th, 1904. The result was forty 

 specimens, fourteen of which were crippled, with nothing ex- 

 ceptional about the markings, but of a good size. The food- 

 plants were bramble, dock, and cabbage. The second brood 

 from pairing of the above was from about 300 ova. At the 

 beginning of July a number of larvae from these hatched and 

 fed up very quickly (others are feeding now [November 24th] 

 after hybernating two months), pupated by August 20th, and 

 the moths emerged in September and October, There were 

 seventy specimens, including six aberrations, twenty deformed, 

 and eight aberrations, also crippled. I have now a lot of ova 

 quite green in colour from the second brood. The food of 

 the second brood of larvae was principally cabbage, with small 

 quantities of bramble and dock at times." 



Mr. Crow exhibited a remarkable rosy form of Calymnia 

 trapezina from Hayes, and a specimen of Pyrameis atalanta 

 showing xanthic spots ; the latter reared from a larva taken 

 at Elmer's End. 



Mr. Stonell exhibited a gynandrous specimen oi Eriogaster 

 lauestris, the wings and antennae on the right side male 

 and those on the left side female, and there was a tuft on the 

 right-hand side at the anal extremity of the abdomen. 



Mr. E. C. Joy exhibited a bred series of Parargc egeria, 

 reared from ova laid by a female taken in Devonshire, June, 

 1903. They emerged in August of the same 3'ear. He also 

 showed two series obtained from a pairing induced in cap- 



