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‘mens, as well as a cast skin of this interesting creature, were 
shown. 
FEBRUARY 25th, 18097. 
Mr. R. ADKIN, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Bishop, ‘‘ Lulworth,” Grove Lane, Kingston-on- 
Thames, was elected a member. 
Mr. Billups exhibited for Mr. Sauzé a considerable number 
of species of some six orders of insects, the most noticeable 
being Bombus hortorum, v. subterraneus, from Deal, July, 1896 ; 
Nomada ochrostoma; Cleptes semiauratus, from Deal; Meso- 
chorus fulguvans (from Dipterous cocoon out of lepidopterous 
larva of Abraxas grossulariata) ; the very rare saw-fly Allantus 
tenulus, and the Dipterous Oxycera pulchella. 
Mr. Tutt exhibited specimens of A glais urtice var. ichnusa, 
from Corsica, and drew attention to the fact that although 
Mr. Merrifield had been able, by the application of high 
temperature to the pupa of this species, to obtain imagines 
which showed the reduction of the black discal and inner 
marginal spots to the point of obsolescence characteristic of 
this variety, and had also obtained an approximation to its 
brilliant colour, yet the result was only an approximation, 
and the specimens produced artificially were distinctly 
separable from South European individuals. 
Mr. Tutt also exhibited specimens of Thats cerisyi and its 
var. deyrollet from South-eastern Europe. 
Mr. R. Adkin exhibited series of Pachnobia hyperborea 
(alpina) from Shetland and Rannoch, the majority of the 
examples having been bred from collected pupe. He said 
that in comparing the two series it would be noticed that 
the ground colour of the wings of the Rannoch specimens 
had a tendency to a bluer shade of grey than those from 
Shetland, and that the form having a dark longitudinal 
streak was much more frequent in the Shetland than the 
Rannoch series. With regard to the occurrence of the 
species in Britain, he said that he believed the first specimen 
was taken so long ago as 1839 by Mr. Douglas, and after 
an interval of fifteen years a second was secured by Mr. 
Foxcroft; then a period of sixteen years passed by without 
a record, until Mr. Eedle captured the third in 1870, the 
fourth falling to the lot of Mr. Allin, and the fifth to Mr. 
Carrington in 1874. In 1876 the moth appears to have been 
found in comparative abundance by several collectors who 
were working in the Rannoch district, and has been taken 
