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the collections. I would suggest that this and any future 

 addition should be known as ' The Tugwell Herbarium.' 



" Yours sincerely, 



"C. A. Briggs." 



A unanimous vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Briggs 

 for this handsome addition to the Society's extensive 

 collections. 



FEBRUARY i^th, 1896. 



R. South, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. Tolhurst, J.P., Beckenham, Kent ; Mr. E. Mont- 

 gomery, Eahng, W. ; and Mr. A. Montgomery, Ealing, 

 W., were elected members. 



Mr. McArthur exhibited a long series of Triphana comes 

 {orbona, Fb.), bred from larvae collected, or from ova obtained 

 from moths taken, in the island of Hoy, Orkney. All the 

 specimens were intensified forms of the curtisii variety, the 

 colour of the fore-wings being almost black, but the hind 

 wings showed only slight suffusion. It was mentioned that 

 this was the only form of the species taken in Orkney. 



Mr. McArthur also exhibited a number of extinct, and 

 rare species of Lepidoptera from the Fry collection, in- 

 cluding several male and female specimens of Chrysophanus 

 dispar ; a. psiiv o^ Lasiocampa ilicifolia from Cannock Chase; 

 three specimens of A braxas grossulariata, two of which were 

 almost complete white and black-banded forms, the black on 

 a part of the margins being rayed, the third specimen had a 

 yellow tinged ground colour ; the two specimens of Notodonta 

 bicolor, said to have been taken at Killarney ; the original 

 British specimen of Nyssia lapponaria ; two specimens of 

 Synia muscidosa, captured at Brighton ; the specimen of 

 Hadena peregrina, captured by Miss Meek at Lewes ; three 

 specimens of Caradrina anibigua, taken at Brighton by Mr. 

 Vine ; a specimen of Xylina lambda, var. zinckenii ; three 

 specimens of Ophiodes lunaris, one of which was a very 

 distinctly banded variety ; the original specimen of Catocala 

 electa, taken by Mr. Vine at Brighton, only one other 

 example of this species is recorded as British ; a series of 

 the rare EupcBcilia gilvicomana, and a specimen of Catocala 

 fraxini. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited the specimen of Cuctdlia gnaphalii 

 bred by the late Mr. W. H. Tugwell from a Tilgate larva. 



Mr. Sturt exhibited the specimens of Sphinx convolvuli 



