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differed much from Scotch specimens, and to illustrate this 

 Mr. Tutt exhibited specimens from Aberdeen. 



Mr. Tugwell exhibited bred specimens of Heliophobus 

 hispidus, Hb., and said that in some of the specimens it was 

 possible to see a violaceous tinge. Mr. South remarked that 

 the colour was not so pronounced as in Hubner's figure. Mr. 

 Tutt said he had bred the species, and in none of his speci- 

 mens was there the faintest appearance of this colour ; he 

 did not think that British specimens were identical with 

 Hubner's figure ; and if various copies of Hubner's book were 

 referred to, it would be noticed that there were different 

 figures of the same insect. 



Mr. Hawes exhibited four specimens of Argynnis selene, 

 Schiff., and remarked that they were bred from ova obtained 

 from a female specimen taken near Colchester on the 13th 

 July ; the ova were deposited on the 15th, and hatched on 

 the 24th of the same month, passed through four moults, and 

 the four now shown pupated from 25th August to 5th 

 September ; the first emerging on the 7th and the last on 

 the 14th of the latter month. Some slight discussion ensued, 

 and it was generally stated that occasional specimens of a 

 second brood were now and then met with. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited nests and imagines of the following 

 species of Hymenoptera : — Euvienes poniifonnis, Rossi., from 

 Zante ; E. petiolata from China ; Polistes gallicus, L., from 

 Carthage ; P. instabilis from Nassau ; P. carnifex from 

 Trinidad ; and P. pallipes from Bermuda. Two species of 

 Polybia from Demerara, and some cells of PelopcBUS fistularis, 

 built on a piece of copper wire. 



Mr. T. D, A. Cockerell exhibited living examples of Helix 

 fruticiLvi, Drap., collected by Mr. S. C. Cockerell at Troyes, 

 France. 



OCTOBER 22,rd, 1890. 

 W. H. Tugwell, Esq., Ph.C, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. P. J. Crane and G. Wallace were elected members. 



Mr. C. S. Bouttell exhibited two series of Eugonia quer- 

 cinaria, Hufn., bred from ova, one batch of which were fed 

 on elm, and the other on sallow ; those fed on elm, after the 

 first moult, were by accident kept without food for a short 

 time, in consequence most of the larvae died ; but nineteen 

 reached the perfect state, of which two only were females. 

 He suggested that the males might be more tenacious of life 

 than the other sex. 



Mr. Percy Bright exhibited Triphcena orbona, Hufn. 



