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being more or less melanic, Mr. A. Harrison. Nonagria sparganii. — 

 Bred in August, 1905, from pup^ taken in east Kent, some miles from 

 the old south-east Kent locality, Mr. L. B, Prout. Aglais urtic^e. — 

 An aberration with hindwings entirely black, and the marginal bands 

 on the forewings much wider than usual, captured at Bexley, August, 

 1905, Mr. V. E. Shaw. Acronicta leporina. — A melanic example, the 

 forewings entirely black, the hindwings darker than in the type, bred 

 from south Essex, 1905. Also a gynandromorphous specimen of 

 Agrotis puta, by Mr. A. J. Willsdon. January 16t/i, 1906. — Exhibits. 

 — Arctia villica var. konewkai. — A J , together with its progeny, from 

 Sicily, April, 1905, by Dr. Chapman. Hybrid Nyssia zonaria x lappo- 

 NARiA. — A 5 , one of 17 bred this winter, no <? having appeared, Mr. 

 A. W. Mera. Epunda lichenea.- — Larva bred from ova laid by a ? 

 taken at Torquay ; although in the same stadium they varied from 

 light to dark green and brown, Mr. V. E. Shaw. February Gth, 1906. 

 — Preserved larvae. — Lasiocampa quercus, with the varieties callunacy 

 iicula, spartii, mericlionalis. Also, of the mongrels spartii x meridionalii, 

 spartii x callunae, callunae x ineridionalis, sicula x (spartii x meridionalis), 

 Mr. A. Bacot. Miscellaneous lepidoptera. — Two hundred species,, 

 including Aporia crataegi, Eremobia ochroleuca, Phlogophora twpyrea,. 

 and Cucullia absinthii, Eev. C. R. N. Burrows. Amphidasys betularia. 

 — Progeny from one brood, those fed on sallow being brown, those on 

 birch, green, Mr. A. W. Mera. February 20th, 1906. Exhibits : 

 Nonagria neurica from Mucking, Cambridge, East Kent, and ab. hessii 

 from Eainham, by the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows. Nonagria neurica, 

 Hb., N. DissoLUTA, Tr., and var. arundineta, Schmidt, received from 

 Herr Pungeler, of Aachen. Also, specimens of N. neurica from various 

 English localities, with the ova, larvse and pupae, Mr. H. M. Edelsten. 

 Leucania brevilinea, including a large specimen closely resembling 

 var. bilinea, Mr. Capel Hanbury. Zonosoma pendularia from Reading, 

 bred, series showing a strong central pink band, also var. subroseata 

 from Staffordshire, Mr. W. J. Kaye. Oporabia dilutata from the New 

 Forest, the pale form commonly distributed over England ; from 

 Epping, generally darker, and with little or no trace of the band on 

 forewings ; and from Delamere Forest, still darker, but with the band 

 distinctly marked, Mr. A. W. Harrison. The identity of the British 

 Nonagria neurica. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten read a paper on this subject 

 in which he showed that Hiibner figured two different species under 

 this name, and contended that the insect at present known to us as 

 neurica is really the var. arundineta, Schmidt, of Nonagria dissoluta, 

 Tr. { = neurica, Hiibner, figs. 659-661 nee fig. QQl = hessii, Bdv.), 

 and that the form known as ab. hessii is the type ioxva = Nonagria 

 dissoluta, Treitschke. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 February 8th, 1906. — Exhibits. — Cidaria sagittata. — Preserved 

 larvae showing their close protective resemblance to the flowers of 

 Thalictrum, and noted their proneness to the attacks of ichneumons, Mr. 

 Kaye. Ova of butterflies. — Microphotographs of nearly every British 

 species were shown by means of the lantern, Mr. Tonge. February 

 22nd, 1906. — Exhibits. — Trephosia bistortata. — First brood captured 

 in the New Forest ; second brood, bred ; also a doubtful Drepana bred 

 from oak, which seems to partake of the characters of both D. binaria 

 and D. cultraria, both by Mr. Goulton. 



