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DECEMBER i2(h, 1895. 

 T. W. Hall, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Searancke, L.R.C.P., of Mitcheldean, Gloucester, 

 was elected a country member. 



Mr. Barrett exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Brooks, of 

 Rotherham, a very long bred series of Boarinia repandata, 

 L., showing especially two forms, (i) the now fairly commpn 

 black form, (2) a number of interesting forms with ordinary 

 pale ground colour, but having all the dark markings much 

 intensified ; a series of grey Tephrosia biundidavia, Bork., the 

 only form occurring around Rotherham ; and a very large 

 number of Lepidoptera collected in the neighbourhood of 

 Lake Tanganyika, from November, 1892, to February, 1893. 

 Among them were the following new and only recently 

 described species, viz. : Pseudospiris paidifonnis, Butl., and 

 Sapcea trimeni, Butl. 



Mr. Mansbridge remarked that the B. repandata exhibited 

 were not so intensely black as those taken in several other 

 parts of Yorkshire, notably near Huddersfield. Of dark 

 forms of T. biundidaria he had known Mr. Hewitt take quite 

 thirty specimens in a day's collecting on the Plain of York. 

 Mr. Tunaley said that the dark form of this species was 

 common in the neighbourhood of Birmingham. Mr. Barrett 

 suggested that this form was especially a hill form, and 

 noted that both the Plain of York and the neighbourhood of 

 Birmingham were elevated. 



Mr. Carpenter exhibited the following species taken in his 

 own garden at Streatham at sallow bloom in 1895, viz. : — 

 Tceniocampa uiunda, Esp. ; T. gothica, L. ; S. stabilis, View. ; 

 T. incerta, Hufn. ; T. pulveridenta, Esp. ; T. gracilis, Fb. ; 

 and Pachnobia nibricosa, Fb. It was noticed that the red 

 form of T. gracilis was represented. Col. Partridge had 

 taken this form in North Ireland, Mr. Hall in the New 

 Forest, and Mr. McArthur near Dundee. 



Col. Partridge exhibited an almost pure white Cuctdlia 

 absinthii, L., which he had bred from Portland, and stated 

 that he had reared nearly 300 but had never seen another 

 variety. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited the following remarkable 

 varieties of Lepidoptera from the collection of Dr. Mason, 

 of Burton-on-Trent, viz. : — Ptilophora plumigera, Esp., an 

 unusually pale male and two very dark females ; Notodonta 



