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Utetheisa, U. pulchella, several localities : ab. candida, Natal; ab. lotria, 
Assam and New Zealand ; ab. thyter (?), Cyprus. U. ornatrix, warmer 
parts of America, and U. bella, sub-sp. venusta, Jamaica. 
Gattis iv Aspen.—Mr. Blair, galls of larve of Saperda populnea 
(Col.) in stems and twigs of aspen. 
Harty Caprores.—Mr. Barnett, reported for March 21st at 
Oxshott, B. parthenias (abundant), X. areola, 7’. crepuscularia, T. 
punctularia, T. carpinata, and G. rhamni, and at Ashtead, EH. 
polychloros. 
Tur Szason.—Reports showed general scarcity of spring larve ; 
larvee very small, larvee of A. catia in fair numbers, B. parthenias in 
swarms, H. lewcophaearia scarce, E. cardamines out, and EH. poly- 
chloros in various places. 
April 8th.—Nrw Mermeers.—Mr. 8. Gordon-Smith, of Boughton, 
Cheshire, was elected a member. 
Wanstgap Frars.—A resolution was passed strongly condemning 
the proposal to enclose portions of Wanstead Flats and of Epping 
Forest for permanent allotments. 
Exursition anp Discussion op D. truncata.— There was a special 
exhibition and discussion of Dysstroma (Cidaria) truncata ; Messrs. 
Bowman, Turner, Newman, Mera, Tonge, Williams, and others took 
part. Mr. Bowman dealt particularly with the race (new) with which 
he and Mr. Williams had met; Mr. Turner summed up the variation 
of the species and its differentation from D. citrata (tmmanata). 
GynanpromorpH oF H, mareinarta.—Mr. Newman, a specimen of 
the curious gynandromorph of Hybernia marginaria taken at Chaily, 
Sussex, and reported an oak at Bexley as partly in leaf on March 31st 
Aserrations or A. urticm, ntc.—Mr. Harding, the aberrations of 
Aglais urticae bred or captured by him during the last forty years, 
with a chrome-yellow banded P. atalanta and a chrome-yellow 
F. jacobaeae. 
A xantHic HK. titHonus.—Mr. Tatchell, a fine xanthic Epine- 
phele tithonus from Dorset, and a living larva in sitti of Trochilium 
crabroniformis in a willow stem. 
Psyeuip cases and D. torrrix (Cou.).—Mr. Bunnett, imagines 
and larval cases of the Psychid Taleporia tubulosa from Farnborough, 
and the beetle Dorytomus tortriw bred from poplar catkins. 
Puusia tarva2.—Dr. Robertson, larvee of Plusia iota. 
April 22nd.—Tenaris anp OpsrpHanes.—Mr. §. Edwards exhibited 
Tenaris honrathi from Java and T. selene from N. Guinea, Dynastor 
napoleon from §. America, and several species of Opsiphanes. 
Varieties oF British Hetrroceranw—Mr. Newman, the pale 
Cheltenham form of Gonodontis bidentata, unusually large Tephrosia 
luridata, curiously radiated forms of T. bistortata, and variod series of 
Hydriomenaimpluviata, H. furcata, ete. 
Rare Boox.—Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a copy of Mouffet’s “‘ Insectorum 
sive Minimorum Animalium, Pheatram,” 1634, and numerous species 
of the genus Plusia. 
Vartation 1x R. puraas in 1911.—Mr. B. 8. Williams, Rumicia 
phlaeas, heavily spotted, dusky, with pear-shaped spots, ab. kochi, with 
dark nervures, with wide borders, etc., all from Finchley, in 1911 
chiefly, a hot season. 
