ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
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FANUARY 14th, 1897. 
Mr. R. SoutH, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Routledge exhibited specimens of Acronycta menyan- 
thidis from Carlisle, somewhat dark in colour, but with a 
white thorax; examples of Xylophasia ruvea from North 
Devon and Pitcaple, the former being lght grey, with very 
fine lines for markings, the latter uniformly covered with 
dark blotches; a specimen of A gvotis segetwim, from Carlisle, 
the fore-wings being silvery with black lines, while the hind 
wings were unusually white; a variety of Noctua c-mgrum, 
in which the black c mark was broken up into two spots, 
and the pale area much reduced in size; and a specimen of 
Triphena pronuba from Epping, showing a black lunule on 
the hind wings. 
Mr. Adkin exhibited, on behalf of Mr. W. F. de Vismes 
Kane, four examples of a very dark form of Dianthecia 
capsophila from an island off the Kerry coast, together with 
others from Howth and Aran Isle, off Galway, and read the 
following extract from a letter sent with them :—‘‘ The four 
D. capsophila are of a series of seven (the others of which are 
fully as dark as the most obsolete of those sent) bred from 
larve obtained from an island off Kerry (whence my black 
Camptogramma bilineata came—extinct now, I fear). They 
are, as you see, remarkably melanic. One imago or two I 
took formerly were similar to these, so that it is evident 
the race is a local one, and it is therefore plain that the 
influences affect more than one species of Lepidoptera. 
Also for comparison I place in the box one dark one from the 
Aran Isle, off Galway; but there the rock is limestone, not 
the black conglomerate of the Kerry Isle: and it is a large 
island, with a good deal of herbage, and plenty of shelter for 
moths to hide in; the specimen is therefore not so suffused 
or blackened. All are bred specimens.” 
Mr. Hewitt, of York, exhibited seventeen female and 
eighteen male Te@niocampa munda, selected from more than 
two hundred specimens captured at sallows in March, 1896, 
