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was sent to Mr. C. G. Barrett, who identified it as distinctana 

 of Hein., only taken before at Vienna, until taken by him 

 (Mr. South) in North Devon ; and he thought that last 

 year Mr. Machin had taken two specimens of a Dicro- 

 rampha, which Mr. Barrett had also identified as distinctana 

 of Hein. 



This year, Mr. South added, he had bred fourteen 

 specimens of distitictana from shoots of Chrysanthemum re- 

 ceived from North Devon ; and he had no doubt whatever it 

 was a form of consortana, the reason being that the larva was 

 identical with the description of larvae of consortana he took 

 some years ago at Shanklin, Isle of White, and the habits of 

 both larvae were also exactly similar, 



Mr. J. J. Weir exhibited seven specimens of Argynnis 

 paphia, L., and one specimen of A. eiphrosyne, L., and drew 

 attention to the white spots on the wings, which, he said, were 

 not suffused spots, as seen in Epinephele ianira It was a very 

 curious thing that these spots should be so conspicuous. He 

 had this year taken seven examples, and heard of several 

 others having been captured. What could be the origin of 

 these spots ? Possibly the pupa had something on it which 

 prevented the rays of light from colouring the insect ; in 

 nearly all cases the spots were symmetrical. 



Mr. South said that in 1881 or 1882 he took some 

 specimens of this insect with the spots, and it occurred to 

 him at the time that they were probably caused by the sun's 

 rays passing through a globule of water and falling on the pupa. 

 In some cases the spots were symmetrical, in other cases any- 

 thing but so ; but, as a rule, they were not symmetrical. 

 Mr. Carrington observed it was scarcely possible one drop of 

 water would cause these spots, as the angle of light would be 

 such as to concentrate the rays, and would leave a line 

 instead of a distinct spot. He remembered one particular 

 season, in the New Forest, when a great many were taken, 

 some showing the spots in the centre of the wing, and in 

 various other ways. It was not probable all these pupae 



