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Mr. Carpenter exhibited a number of Argynnis papJiia, 

 L., var. valesina, Esp., from the New Forest. 



Mr. Weir said that this variety had been very plentiful 

 this year in the New Forest, and Mr. Carpenter's box con- 

 tained three very interesting specimens, one of which was 

 very much smaller than the ordinary form, and the colour of 

 the fore wings was more like that of the ordinary female 

 Paphia ; hind wings much darker, approaching closely that 

 of Valesina. Another example was very dark, smoky-green 

 in colour, the usual pale blotches in the fore wings being quite 

 absent. And in the third specimen the pale blotches were 

 unusually distinct and numerous. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited Melanthia hicolorata, Hufn., var. 

 plumbata, Curt., from Rannoch. 



Mr. Oldham exhibited Dicycla oo, L., from Epping 

 Forest, and stated that he had this season taken some twenty 

 specimens in that locality. 



Mr. Weir said it was very remarkable that Mr. Oldham 

 should have taken so many as twenty D. oo at Epping, as the 

 species had not occurred in any plenty in the New Forest for 

 a number of years. 



Mr. Tutt remarked that D. oo had been very common 

 this year — it had occurred at Shooter's Hill, and very freely 

 indeed around Bromley. 



Mr. J. T. Williams said the species had occurred year 

 after year at Fairmead Bottom, Epping Forest. 



Mr. Skinner exhibited a specimen of Deiopeia pulcJiella, 

 L., taken at Dover, 1886, a bleached specimen of Epinephele 

 ianira, L., from Heme Bay, Kent, and forms of Zygcena fili- 

 pendiil^, L., having a pink shade of red instead of the usual 

 crimson, bred from larvae obtained from Caterham. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a specimen oi Anticlea cucullata, 

 Hufn., bred from a larva found on a bunch of Galmm brought 

 from Eastbourne. 



Mr. Elisha exhibited Gelechia hippophaella, Schr., bred 

 from larva in the shoots of Hippophae rhainnoides, L., from 

 the Sand Hills, Deal, G. vilella, Zell., bred from larva found 

 in the seed heads of Malva sylvestris, L., from Southend ; 



