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a specimen of Asphalia ridens on March 18th, and had been 
breeding Teniocampa pulverulenta (cruda) for three weeks. 
In company with Mr. Edwards he had been to Ashdown 
Forest, and had noted that the sallows were everywhere well 
out. Gonopteryx rhamni and A glass (Vanessa) urtice were already 
out of hybernation. The Rev. E. Tarbat had been breeding 
Temocampa munda since January, and Endromis versicolor 
was now emerging. His room had a northern aspect. 
Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of Abraxas grossu- 
lariata bred from Perthshire larve, which included light and 
dark forms, and one somewhat remarkable variety in which 
the usual cluster of black markings at the base of the fore- 
wings was followed by a broad white band, on which there 
was a large circular black discoidal spot, and the transverse 
band of black and yellow markings was much straightened. 
The ornamentation of the hind wings consisted of an almost 
central circular black spot, a submarginal row of elongated 
black blotches, and the marginal row of black spots extending 
along the inner two thirds of the margin. Two other 
examples had indications of a yellow stripe on the hind 
wings. Mr. Adkin said that an impression appeared to have 
got abroad that the Perthshire representatives of this species 
were of a dark form; the idea had perhaps arisen from some 
of the collectors having selected the more strongly marked 
examples to breed from, and thus obtained more or less 
darkly marked specimens; but it would be seen from the 
series now exhibited that both light and dark forms occurred 
in Perthshire as in other places. He had, at one time and 
another, had numbers of this species through his hands from 
various districts, but in no case had he been able to regard 
any of them as representing a local form. 
A paper entitled ‘‘ Representative Species,” by Prof. A. 
Radcliffe Grote, A.M., was read by Mr. Tutt (ante p. 13). 
A vote of thanks was proposed by’ Mr. Mansbridge, and 
seconded by Mr. Turner. 
APRIL 8th, 1897. 
Mr. R. ADKIN, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. South exhibited the following Geometrina from 
Europe and Eastern Asia: 
Eustroma (Czdaria) reticulata, with var. werosa, Butl. The 
latter was much larger than the type, and golden yellow in 
colour of ground. 
