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Smerinthus populi, bred, dark and light specimens, one 
female, which emerged on July 5th, having a very pink 
tinge, although the pupz had been subjected to heat since 
March. 
Mr. Tutt exhibited, on behalf of Dr. Riding and Mr. 
Bacot, long series of specimens illustrative of his paper 
entitled ‘‘ Notes on Hybrids of Yephrosza bistortata, Goetze, 
and 7. crepuscularia, Hb.” (ante, p. go). 
On behalf of Mr. Horne, Mr. Tutt exhibited a most re- 
markable specimen of Nemeophila plantaginis, in which the 
ground colour of all the wings was almost entirely suppressed, 
the velvety black having spread over the whole of the hind 
wings, and there were only a few irregular traces of the light 
marking on the fore-wings. It was bred from a larva found 
on Scotston Moor near Aberdeen. 
On behalf of Mr. Merrin, author of the ‘‘ Lepidopterist’s 
Calendar,’ Mr. Tutt exhibited the following species, all from 
near Gloucester :—A fine series of aberrations of JZelzte@a 
aurinta from Kimberland, comprising ab. artemis, typical 
aurinia, and ab. preclara, one of the latter being strongly 
marked with cream along the inner margin; also under-side 
aberrations, of which the best had the ground colour uni- 
formly tinted with fulvous, and another with a wide creamy 
marginal band occupying nearly half the wing ; small Lycena 
arion, Measuring one and three quarter inches in expanse ; 
Epinephele (Enodia) hyperanthus, marked as in ab. céca on 
the under side of hind wings, the fore-wings with small 
but normally shaped ocellated spots; Vanessa (A glats) urtice, 
with a metallic spot on the under side of each fore-wing, 
below each of the most basal of the three black costal spots; 
and Syrichthus malve ab. taras, with band especially well 
developed on the fore-wings. 
On behalf of Mr. Griffiths, of Bristol, Mr. Tutt exhibited 
specimens of Zephrosza bistortata (crepuscularia) from Leigh 
Woods. Some of the females were finely banded and large, 
and one somewhat suffused with fuscous. He also exhibited 
a second brood of the same species bred on July 2nd and 
3rd, 1897, from eggs laid by a female captured on April 1oth 
in the locality, together with preserved larve. Mr. Tutt 
pointed out that there were also specimens of 7. crepuscu- 
laria (btundularia) among the former, so that evidently both 
these nearly allied species occurred in Leigh Woods. 
And on behalf of Rev. W. Claxton, the following insects 
caught near Romford, Essex :—Azchocelts pistacina, ab. 
sertna and ab. venosa, Noctua xanthographa, the dark greyish 
