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stood Mr. Cockerell's paper rightly, the colour was first 

 orange, then yellow, and afterwards white. His own idea 

 was that species now red had passed through yellow and 

 orange until ultimately they assumed the red we now see. 

 N . plantaginis , in arctic and boreal regions had a white form 

 known as hospita. Coming south we got a yellow form. Then 

 with regard to Gonepteryx rhamni, the females in Europe were 

 invariably pale, and much paler than the males. In Japan 

 they were quite white ; in China and India fhainni occurred 

 of an orange yellow ; south of Europe, North Asia and Asia 

 Minor, it was still darker, and was known as deopatra. Mr. 

 Leech had in his collection an excellent series of grades 

 between the ordinary rJianini and the variety madiirensis^ 

 which has the whole of the primaries suffused with orange 

 colour. The question was a most interesting one, and he was 

 very glad Mr. Cockerell had taken it up. Mr. Tutt thought 

 that if an insect had its origin in hot climates, the primitive 

 types were generally of a much stronger colour than if it had 

 its origin in arctic countries. 



APRIL 2Sth, 1889. 

 T. R. ElLLUPS, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. A. Cant and R. Fortune were elected members. 



Mr. J. A. Cooper exhibited a bred series of TcBuiocanipa 

 popiileti, Fb., the parent moth of which was said to have been 

 taken at Rannoch, and he commented on their resemblance 

 to the southern form of the species. 



Mr, Fremlin exhibited varieties of Vanessa urticcB, L., picked 

 from 3,500 specimens bred by him last year ; in some the 

 variation was in the shade of colour of the wings, in others in 

 the size of the two spots on the superior wings ; in the dupli- 

 cation of the spots and in many in the absence of the usual 

 pigment. These last, Mr. Fremlin said, emerged with crumpled 

 wings, and died within a few hours of emerging. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited the specimens of Carpo- 

 capsa pomonella, L., referred to in Mr. Cockerell's note read 

 at the last meeting. The specimen in question was unusually 

 large, but undoubtedly of this species. 



Mr. Rice exhibited eggs of the Blackbird {Turdus merula, 

 L.), thirty clutches collected in the Leith Hill district, Surrey, 



