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FEBRUARY ith, 1897. 
Mr. R. ADKIN, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Barrett exhibited specimens of a species of the family 
Pterophoride taken in the west of Ireland by Mr. de Vismes 
Kane, and which he recognised as Platyptilia tesseradactyla, a 
well-distributed Continental species. The specimens shown 
were more grey in appearance than the usual German form, 
which was of a brown tint. 
Mr. Routledge exhibited a variety of Dianthecza nana 
(conspera) bred from Orkney larve obtained by Mr. 
McArthur. The black markings were absent, and the 
specimen was of a general ochreous tint, nearly all the 
usually white markings being of a greyish colour. It was 
referable to var. ochrea. 
Mr. Tutt exhibited several dead larve of Hepialus 
lupulinus. These had been attacked by a fungus, and were 
quite brown and stiff. The individuals were obtained by 
Mr. E. A. Bowles, M.A., F.E.S., at Waltham Cross, and 
were all found within the area of a square foot at the root of 
a Peonta officinalis. Mr. Tutt also exhibited living larve of 
the same species, also received from Mr. Bowles, and 
remarked that the appearance of the fungus-attacked indi- 
viduals suggested that the living specimens had been nibbling 
the corpses. 
@n behalf of Mr. Fletcher, of Worthing, Mr. Tutt 
exhibited a series of hybrid Zyg@nid@z, and contributed the 
following note :—‘“‘It is in the memory of you all that Mr. 
W. H. B. Fletcher has bred hybrids between Z. lonicere and 
Z. filipendula, and between 7. lonicere and Z. trifolii (the 
progeny of the latter proving fertile for four generations). 
In my pamphlet ‘ Notes on the Zygenide’ I described fully 
two very distinct Zygenids which had been united by 
Standinger under the name of Z. trifolit var. dubia. These 
were Z. medicagims and Z. ochsenheimert,—the former a five- 
spotted species closely related to, but larger than 7. lonicera, 
the latter a six-spotted species clesely allied to Z. fidpendula, 
aberrations of which have been erroneously referred to this 
species. Whilst we were at Courmayer, Piedmont, in 1894, 
Dr. Chapman sent eggs of Z. ochsenheimert to Mr. Fletcher. 
These duly hatched, and when the imagines emerged a 
female ochsenhermert was paired with a male filipendule from 
the Sussex Downs. Eggs were obtained, and a part of the 
moths resulting from the cross I now exhibit. Mr. Fletcher 
