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Hoy during the past summer, but there are many insects in 

 the collection which, though less striking at first sight, are 

 of very considerable interest when carefully compared with 

 specimens from other localities. The C. imtnitata exhibited 

 come under this category. Compared with those from the 

 other localities they are somewhat inferior in size, some of 

 them being no larger than C. designata ; the ground-colour 

 of the wings is variable sexually, that of the males closely 

 matching the grey of the Paisley series, while the females 

 in this respect are nearer to the brownish shade of the 

 Shetland form. The numerous fine striae, which are hardly 

 discernible in the two last-mentioned series, are strongly 

 produced (more particularly in the females), and in this 

 respect they bear a superficial likeness to C. designata. They 

 are, however, at once separable from that species by the 

 shape of the outer margin of the central fascia, which is 

 undoubtedly that of C. munitata.'' 



Mr. Hall said that the specimens exhibited were un- 

 doubtedly very confusing. Mr. Barrett said that the two 

 species could always be distinguished by the shape of the 

 costa, and remarked that the Hoy specimens of C munitata 

 somewhat resembled those from Iceland, where its habit 

 was to fly by day. Mr. Tutt said that he had found that 

 many species, whose habit here was to fly at dusk or dark, 

 flew during the day in Alpine regions. This particular 

 species he had found 6000 feet above the sea in the Tyrol. 

 Mr. Carrington had seen the same species flying between 

 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on the Scotch mountains. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited a very long bred series of Ocneria 

 dispar, L., with the female parent, from Bordeaux. The 

 larvae had been fed on hawthorn, and although well supplied 

 with food, the imagines had all come out small in size. Mr. 

 Carrington said that he had found the larva on hawthorn in 

 the Riviera, but that apple and plum were its usual food. 



Mr. Carrington exhibited four more or less xanthic speci- 

 mens of Epinephele ianira, L., taken in the same field at 

 Leigh, Essex, in i8go-gi. One specimen was very pretty, 

 being considerably mottled with white on all the wings. He 

 also exhibited typical and lemon-coloured varieties of Hesperia 

 lineola, L., from Shoeburyness. 



Mr. Clark exhibited a number of large and well-developed 

 micro-photographs of various entomological objects. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited specimens of Noctua /estiva, 

 Fb., from Carlisle, including a specimen of the moorland 

 form formerly sent out by the Aberdeen collectors as N, 



