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eggs which corresponded in every particular with the 

 sketches of Ganin. The Prestwichia was distinct in having 

 i2-jointed antennae and a petioled abdomen. He hoped ere 

 long to solve what was still a great mystery. 



/ULY 22>rd, 1896. 



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



Mr. W. West, of Streatham, exhibited specimens of 

 Catocala promissa and C. sponsa, which he had bred from 

 larvae taken during the Society's field meeting at Whitsun- 

 tide. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of a Hypsipetes that 

 he had bred from the same lot of larvae from Orkney as 

 those exhibited by Mr. McArthur on May 28th. He was 

 unable to say whether they were referable to H. trifasciata 

 {implnviata) or H. ruberata, but he thought the whole of them 

 more nearly approached the former than the latter species. 

 Also a specimen of Ccenonympha painphilits taken on the 

 occasion of the Society's field meeting at Byfleet on 

 June 20th, in which the row of ocellated spots on the 

 under-side of the hind wings was unusually strongly 

 developed. 



Mr. Dennis exhibited a series of reversed specimens of 

 Cupido (LyccBna) minima taken at Horsley, showing a com- 

 plete gradation from a specimen almost without spots on 

 under-side to one having large and well-developed spots ; 

 also a specimen very liberally scaled with blue on the upper 

 surface. Mr. Turner said that wherever he had met with 

 this species he found the same extent of variation in the 

 number and size of the spots on the under side. 



Mr. Kremlin exhibited specimens of Polyonimatus astrarche, 

 var. salmacis, from Castle Eden Dene. 



Mr. Mansbridge exhibited a series of varieties of Abraxas 

 grossulariata, bred from larvae obtained at Horsforth. Of 

 the imagines obtained from about 150 larvae, only two or 

 three per cent, showed any considerable variation, compared 

 with fifteen per cent, last year. One specimen exhibited 

 was unusually light and devoid of markings ; two specimens 

 were asymmetrical, one of them being quite normal on one 

 side and streaked on the other ; one had a continuous band 

 of black on the hind wings, and another was nicely radiated 

 on the fore-wings. 



