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exhibitors goes, seems to produce only dark forms, some being almost 

 black. Aberration of Melanippe fluctuata. — -A specimen taken in 

 Woodford, Epping Forest, having the central band much reduced and 

 the ground colour somewhat brown. Aberration of Aceonicta 

 iiEPORiNA. — A specimen from Delamere Forest, with black thorax and 

 abdomen, and the forewings suffused with smoky-black coloration ; 

 another Delamere and a Lancashire specimen varying in the same 

 direction, but with the black coloration less pronounced. Arctia 

 viLLicA var. konewkai. — Dr. T. A. Chapman bred specimens of this 

 variety from Sicily, in which the spots of the forewings run together 

 to form a fascia ; he alpo showed larvse of the same, these had black 

 heads instead of the red of the type. Anthrocera ? hippocrepidis 

 (sTEPHENsi) AND A. TRiFOLii. — Mr. A, L. Eaywood, examples of an 

 insect with the sixth spot almost absent on upper-, and faint 

 on underside, taken near Bude, July 9th, 1905, on the slope of a grassy 

 furze-covered hill, flying in company with insects supposed to be A. 

 tilipendulae. The examples exhibited were taken in a few minutes, and 

 no doubt more could have been taken as they were flying freely. The 

 area within which they occurred, however, appeared to be a restricted 

 one. No A. trifolii were taken nearer than about a mile away, within 

 which distance the species is abundant in two places, one in a westerly 

 and the other in a southeasterly direction. In these trifolii grounds 

 no hippocrepidis (or tilipendulae) were taken. Cabera pusaria ab. 

 ROTUNDARiA. — Mr. G. B. Browne, a bred series of this form, the 

 larvffi, it is believed, coming from Horsley or Oxshott. Lithostege 

 GRisEATA. — Also a series of this species taken June 19th, 1905, at 

 Tuddenham. Melanic Craniophora ligustri. — Also a rusty- brownish 

 example of this species taken at Lee. Dragonflies in the Norfolk 

 Broads. — Mr. Dobson, the following species taken in the summer in 

 the Norfolk Broads, viz. — Libelliila fulva, L. qnadrimacidata, Orthetrum 

 cancellatum, JEsclina isosceles, Bracliytron pratense, and Cordidia aenea. 

 Aberration of Cupido minima. — Mr. Joy, a specimen of Cupido minima, 

 in which the submarginal spots on the underside of the hindwings 

 were elongated into partial rays. Aglais URTiciE bred on hop. — Mr. 

 South showed a series of Aglais urticae bred from larvae fed on hop ; 

 they were unusually small. Aberrational forms of Triphjena comes. 

 — Mr. Bacot, a very extensive series representing several generations of 

 Triphaena comes, originating from parents bred from larvae collected 

 in Aberdeenshire, and by Messrs. Bacot, Prout, Gardner, Newman, 

 Eaynor, Harrison, and Hamlyn. The results were — First gen., ^ 

 melanic X ? red = 21 melanic, 32 red. Second gen., 3" X 2 both 

 melanic = 212 melanic, 71 red; 3- X 2 both red = 285 red. Third 

 gen., (? X 2 both melanic =68 melanic, 5 red; <? melanic x ? red 

 = 17 melanic ; J" X ? both red = 26 red. 



®^URRENT NOTES. 



Mr. Verrall records the capture by Colonel Yerbury of Dolichopus 

 ar(jyrotarsis,Wsdsh, at Nethy Bridge, on June 19th, 1905, and Porjjhyrops 

 (/ravipes, Wlk., at Nairn and Nethy Bridge, from May 30th to June 

 16th, 1905, both additions to the British list. 



The officers and council of the South London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society for 1906 are as follows.— President : R. 



