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trimacida, Esp., dark females and a specimen with an 

 unusually light band ; Cymatophora duplaris, L., very dark 

 uniform specimens; Acronyda alni, L., dark suffused male; 

 A gratis segetiun, Schiff., one specimen bearing a close resem- 

 blance to A. lunigera, another specimen with only the 

 smallest trace of markings and uniformly pale; A. agathina, 

 Dup., ver}^ pale and ver}^ dark specimens; A. coHicea, Hb., 

 a unicolorous female; A. pnta, Hb., a smoky brown female ; 

 A. exclamationis, L., a specimen with the stigmata connected 

 and very sharply marked ; A. pyrophila, W. V., an extremely 

 pale specimen from Portland and an extremely dark one 

 from Aberdeen; A. lucernea, L., extreme dark and light 

 specimens; A. siibgothica, Haw., two specimens from old 

 collections, one of which was captured by the late Mr. 

 Raddon ; Xoctua siibrosea, St., a very large male ; N. augur, 

 Fb., a unicolorous pale var. from Derbyshire. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited a photograph of a Bird-Cherry 

 tree {Prnnns padus, L.) covered with the webs of Hypono- 

 meuta evonymellus, L. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited specimens of Hydrcecia 

 micacea, Esp., from co. Westmeath, Ireland, which were 

 darker than the usual English form, one of them being 

 similar in colour to H. petasitis, Dbl., an example of which 

 was shown for comparison, but was easily distinguishable 

 from that species by the straighter costa and narrower fore- 

 wings. He also exhibited a variety of Agrotis saucia, Hb., 

 from the same locality ; this specimen was of small size, the 

 colour of the primaries purplish grey, the transverse mark- 

 ings and stigmata outlined in black, and the secondaries of 

 the usual pearly grey. 



Mr. Hy. Tunaley exhibited Lyccena corydon, Fb., in 

 which the black border of hind-wings extended within the 

 marginal series of spots, and a specimen in which the black 

 border was entirely absent from all the wings ; both varieties 

 from Freshwater. Also specimens of L. hellargus, Rott., and 

 L. corydon, in which the hind-wings were angular rather than 

 round. Another interesting exhibit was an example of the 

 dipteron Asihis crahroniformis, L., with a specimen of L. 

 icarus, Rott., impaled on its lancet ; this was taken at Fresh- 

 water m August, 1895. He contributed the following note : — 

 The angularity is due to a shortening of the wing from its 

 junction with the body, and a straightening of the hind- 

 margin. The angulated specimens were taken in an exposed, 

 high and windy district near the coast ; the rounded form 

 more inland, lower, and sheltered. I cannot conceive of 



