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tivity from specimens of the above brood : (i) 80 per cent, 

 hybernated as pupae, and emerged early in the following 

 May; (2) 20 per cent, hybernated as half-fed larvae, emerging 

 the following June. 



Mr. Chittenden exhibited the following forms and aberra- 

 tions : Spilosoma Inbricipeda, var. radiata, very black, from 

 Huddersfield larvae, with black cilia in the fringes ; Phi^alia 

 pedaria (pilosaria), blackish, from Yorkshire; y^yssia hispidaria, 

 blackish, from Epping Forest; Boarmia irpandata, very dark, 

 from York; Acidalia inornata, very dark, from Ashford, Kent; 

 Hybernia marginaria, melanic forms and var. fnscata, from 

 Perth ; Larentia midtistrigaria, a very dark melanic form ; 

 Hypsipeies ruberata, bred from Aberdeen larvae ; Cyiiiatophora 

 dtiplaris, black, from Market Drayton ; Pharetra menyanthidis, 

 very dark, from Yorkshire; Xylophasia nwnoglypha, black, 

 from Ireland ; Caradrina nwrpheiis, very dark, from Ashford, 

 Kent; Agrotis segetimi, black, from Ashford, Kent; A. excla- 

 mationis, black, from Ashford, Kent ; .-1. corticca, black, from 

 Ashford, Kent ; Nocttui xanthographa, from Durham, black, 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited (i) a specimen of Saturnia 

 pavonia, in which the wings and body were undoubtedly those 

 of the female, but the antennae were distinctly male. It was 

 reared by Mr. H. Mc Arthur from a larvae collected in the 

 Isle of Lewis in igoi, and had remained in pupae from that 

 time until May of the present year ; (2) an example of 

 Syrichthm malva: taken at Brighton in May last, in which 

 the prevailing colour was very much blacker than is usual 

 in this species ; (3) and a very fresh specimen of Sphinx 

 convolvtdi that was taken at rest on a fence high up on the 

 downs at Eastbourne on September i8th last. 



Mr. R. Armstrong Adkin exhibited a long and greatly 

 varied series of the Mollusc Helix virgata from Eastbourne. 



Mr. Harris exhibited a very interesting series of Heniero- 

 phila abruptaria bred from a pairing obtained in captivity 

 between a male captured at Ilford on May 26th, 1904, and 

 a female taken at Clapton on May 25th, 1904. The series 

 showed a considerable number of the more or less extreme 

 melanic forms originally reported from Hackney. 



Mr. Goulton exhibited a series of Eiibolia cervinaria from 

 Purley and Littlehampton ; Hypsipeies elntata from Ranmore, 

 showing extreme dark forms ; Boavmia repandata from Ran- 

 more and Banstead, including several light vars. ; Oporabia 

 dilutata from Ranmore ; and Psendotcvpna pntinata [cyiisaria) 

 from Bookham. He stated that with regard to P. pruinata 

 four larvae were left in the cage with some dead Genista, and 



