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Seal Chart, near Sevenoaks, also bred from bilberry, are pretty 

 much like some of those from North Devon bred from larvae 

 found on bilberry. 



Mr. Tugwell exhibited a series of a rich brown and banded 

 form of Acidalia aversata, L., bred trom a batch of ova from 

 Boxhill. The female parent alone was seen, and this was the 

 strongly-banded grey type ; curiously, not a single one of the 

 brood was of this form, the rich brown and the var. spoliaia 

 of Staud., alone resulting, and in about equal numbers — a 

 strong refutation of the idea that the ? parent gives a pre- 

 ponderance of character to the brood. In this case not a 

 single one followed the mother-type. 



Mr. Billups exhibited Lithocharis picea, Kr., from Lewisham, 

 and remarked that only two specimens had previously been 

 recorded, one from Bexley Wood and the other from Darenth 

 Wood, Kent ; wliereas it had now occurred in considerable 

 numbers. 



Mr. White read a paper on " Observation versus Collect- 

 ing." 



JUNE \2,th, 1 889. 



J. T. Carrington, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Wellman exhibited bred specimens of Macroglossa 

 fuciformis^ L., showing the greenish coloured scales on the 

 transparent part of the wings. 



Mr. Robson exhibited examples of Sesia formiciformis, 

 Esp., with yellow bands. 



Mr. South exhibited Cidaria truncata, Hufn., and C. 

 immaiiata, Haw., and contributed the following notes on 

 the synonymy and variation of those species. — ■" In trimcata 

 we have a species which has been honoured with no less 

 than eight names, and has been placed in half as many 

 genera, not including Phalcena and Geometra, which were 

 rather tribes or divisions than genera. 



" P]ialeena trimcata, Hufn. Berl. Mag. iv. 602, 625 (1769) ; 

 Rott. Naturf. xi. 78. (var.) Phalcena centum-?iotata, Schulz. 

 Naturf. vi. p. 93, pi. iv. fig. 4 (1775) ; Fab. Gen. 290. Geometra 

 russata,^ €\vl.N &xz.^. 113, n, 18 (1776) ; Bork. Eur. Schmett. 

 v. 405, 200; Hiibn. Geom. fig. 305. Dy stroma russata,Y{.vhn. 

 Verz. Schmett. 333, 3210. (var.) Geometra comma-notata. 

 Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 325. (var.) Geometra perfiiscata, Haw. 



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