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differed profoundly in the colour of the thorax and abdomen, 

 yet the wings both in colour and markings were identical. 



He also exhibited a specimen of the Voliicella, which he had 

 recently taken at Bournemouth, in which the mimicry was 

 imperfect, inasmuch as the arrangement of the colour resembled 

 that of Bombus lapidarius ; but instead of the hairs at the 

 end of the abdomen being red, they were of a yellowish 

 colour, as in the mimic of Bombus terrestris. 



He showed also a specimen of the large worker of Formica 

 rufa, L., to the antenna of which was attached, by the closed 

 jaws, the head and part of the thorax of another ant with 

 which no doubt it had fought, and destroyed the abdomen 

 and most of the thorax of its adversary, but could not detach 

 the head, which in death had firmly gripped its conqueror. 



Mr. E. Joy exhibited Nascia cilialis, Hb., and Zeuzera 

 arundinis, Fb., from Wicken Fen. 



Mr. Jager exhibited Dia7ithcecia carpophaga, Bork., and D. 

 capsophila, Dup., bred from larvae collected in the Isle of Man 

 and in South Wales ; he also exhibited a dark specimen of 

 D. ccssia, Bork., and remarked that although he had collected 

 the seed heads, he had only bred this one specimen ; he 

 understood, however, from Mr. Gregson that the larvae fed on 

 the flowers, and not in the seed head. 



Mr. Wellman exhibited examples of the genus Dianthcecia, 

 from Liverpool, Isle of Man, Surrey, Ireland, and South of 

 Scotland ; also a series of one hundred specimens oi Eupithecia 

 reciangulata, L., var. nigrosericeata, Haw ; he stated that the 

 whole of them were taken at Streatham, from six apple trees. 



Mr. V. Gerrard exhibited a series oi Emydia cribrwn, L., taken 

 near Ringwood, Hants, where he said it had occurred very freely. 



Mr. A. W. Dennis exhibited a very pale variety of Argynnis 

 eiiphrosyne, L., taken at Dorking, Surrey. 



Mr, R. Adkin exhibited Eupithecia nanata, Hb., from 

 Hants and Surrey, and called attention to the extreme 

 variability of the species. The five Surrey specimens, being 

 about half of a series taken haphazard one afternoon in the 

 beginning of May last, and showed the following comparative 

 distinction. 



1. Central band ill-defined, submarginal band distinct and 

 complete. 



2. Central band sharply defined, submarginal band broad, 

 distinct, and intersected by white apical splash. 



3. Submarginal band narrow, intersected. 



4. ,, „ „ complete. 



5- » ,, broad, not sharply defined. 



