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have a good chance of holding their own, and his was not. 
In one part of this stream they were rather common, the 
males, however, greatly preponderating over the females. On 
the wing they might be taken for either of the three common 
Agrions, except that they are a little smaller. As the New 
Forest is the only known British locality for the species, it 
will be well perhaps not to describe the habitat more 
exactly, and so relieve the Protection Committee from the 
duty of safeguarding it. Mr. Dale has specimens from 
Winchester and Glanvilles Wootton, but the former haunt 
is, I believe, no longer known, and the latter has been 
drained.”’ 
Mr. Dennis exhibited, under the microscope, ova of 
Polyommatus (Lycena) corydon and Plebius (Lycena) @egon, 
the former of which had as yet never been described. 
Mr. Tutt exhibited a very extensive series of Evebza nevine, 
together with photographs of the famous Mendelstrasse, to 
illustrate his paper entitled ‘“‘ A Gregarious Butterfly, Evebia 
nevine : a Reminiscence of the Mendelstrasse ; with Notes on 
the Lepidoptera of the Serpents of the Mendelstrasse ’’ 
(ante, p. 63). 
SEPTEMBER 23rd, 1897. 
Mr. R. ADKIN, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 
Dr. Chapman, F.E.S., Elmscroft, Redhill, was elected 
a member. 
Mr. Malcolm Burr presented to the Society’s museum an 
almost complete collection of British Orthoptera, and it was 
resolved that a vote of thanks for this handsome donation be 
inscribed in the minutes. 
Mr. Auld exhibited a series of Tapinostola bondit from 
Folkestone, of Caradrina ambigua from Devonshire, where 
it has been somewhat common this year, of Dianthecia nana 
from Shetland, showing white-marked forms as well as 
uniformly dark ones, and of Ta@mtocampa gothica also from 
Shetland. 
Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of Dianthecia nana 
(conspersa) that he had bred from larve obtained in the 
Shetland Isles. The majority of the specimens were from 
Cunningsburgh, and varied very considerably in colour, the 
lightest having the usual white markings well developed 
both on the wings and on the thoracic tuft, while in the 
other extreme the whole upper surface of the insect was of 
a smoky-black shade. Three examples from the Isle of 
