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lowing. Mr. B. W. Adkin, Leucania vitellina, Hb., and L. extranea from the Scilly 

 Isles. Mr. Auld, a specimen of Vanessa Atalanta, L., having an orange band on 

 one hind-wing, and red on the other. Mr. Briggs, a bright blue female Lycmna 

 hellargus, Eott. Mr. Dennis exhibited examples of a partial third brood of Pararge 

 Megcera, L. Mr. Turner showed three specimens of the Scotch form of Arctia 

 menthastri, Esp. Mr. Adye, a specimen of Deilephila livornica, Esp., captured at 

 Christchurch, May 2oth, 1893. Mr. McArthur, a second brood of Boarmia repand- 

 ala, L., from the south of Ireland. Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited specimens of the 

 Tsetse fly, Glossina morsitans, received from Dr. Percy Rendall, in the Transvaal ; 

 also a specimen of a Depressaria, taken by him more than thirty years ago, near 

 Lewes, probably D. aurantiella, Tutt. Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of 

 Cymatophora or, Fb.,bred from larvae found feeding between united leaves of aspen, 

 in Sutherlandshire, together with representatives of the South English, Shetland, 

 and Rannoch forms for comparison. Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited a number of species 

 of rare Diptera, taken at Oxshott and Dulwich, including, amongst others, Helomyza 

 pallida, Fb., Soiomyza dubia, Mg., &c. Mr. C. Oldham exhibited Xanthia circel- 

 laris, Hufn., X. gilvago, Esp., Anchocelis lunosa. Haw., A. litura, &c., from Essex, 

 Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk. — H. Williams, Hon. Sec. 



October 2UTi, 1893.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited a second brood of Argynnis Paphia from eggs of var. 

 Vahzina, only one of the four specimens being the var. Mr. Tutt remarked that 

 he had bred second broods of A. Paphia and Vanessa urticcB. Mr. South, conti- 

 nental specimens of Lyccena bellargus, with its var. Ceronus, a female blue like 

 the male, with the fulvous spots on the upper-side ; L. Corydon and its var. syn- 

 grapha, a female, blue like the male, with the fulvous spots, and a specimen with 

 the fringes perfectly white ; also large and dark specimens of L. Arion. Mr. Weir 

 remarked that many years' expei-ience of the Blues at Lewes had produced but very 

 little variation. Mr. S. Stevens, Tinea simplicella. Mr. Hamm, long series of the 

 two broods o{ Zieucophasia sinapi.i, well illustrating both seasonal and sexual dimor- 

 phism ; Colias Edusa, with several var. Helice, among which was a female with only 

 the faintest trace of a spot in the black border; long series of Melitcpa Aurinia, 

 bred from Hampshire, with captured specimens from Swansea for comparison, also a 

 remarkable scalelesa aberration ; some of the Hants specimens were comparable to 

 var. hibernica ; a specimen of Polyommatus Phlceas, with fewer spots on the pri- 

 maries than Members had noticed before ; bleached vars. of both Epinephele Janira 

 and E. Tithonus ; a var. of Smerinthus tilice ; a most remarkable var. of Epinephele 

 hyperanthus, having only one wing normal ; a case containing long and varied series 

 of all the genus Xanthia, that of X. gilvago from Reading being especially noticeable ; 

 some fine Dasycampa rubiginea and Cosmia paleacea ; vrith many other species. 

 Mr. Carpenter, bred series of Triphcena comes from Aberdeen, and of Aplecta prasrna 

 from Essex. Mr. Enock, a very dark female of the dark April brood of Lyccena 

 Argiolus, taken at Torquay by Master John Enock. Mr. P. Bright, a gynandrous 

 specimen of Argynnis Paphia, the left side male, the right female ; a very dark 

 specimen of Ematurga atojnaria, and another with three normal wings, while the 

 right inferior was uniformly dark ; a very dark female Stilbia anomala ; and a 

 varied series of Emydia cribrum, some being banded. Mr. Adkin, the following 



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