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{subseqtm, Hb.), from Forres, and remarked that Mr. Salvage 

 had taken this species very freely there, getting as many as 

 sixty in one evening ; he also exhibited a melanic variety of 

 Arctia caia, L., from Sheffield, and an exceedingly light form 

 from Darlington. 



Mr. Hawes exhibited four examples of Argynnis etipJirosyne, 

 L., showing considerable variation in the black markings. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited specimens of Tortrix piceana, L., 

 from Surrey and Hampshire localities, fifty or sixty miles 

 apart ; and he expressed an opinion that the species, although 

 exceedingly rare, was more widely distributed than was 

 generally supposed. Mr. Tugwell said it had been taken in 

 Tilgate Forest, Sussex. Mr. C. G. Barrett said it was 

 extremely abundant on the Continent, and that collectors 

 there could hardly believe that we did not obtain it plentifully. 

 Mr. Barker exhibited examples of a second brood of 

 Argynnis selene, Schiff., taken at Hastings during the last 

 week of August, 1881. He stated that during the previous 

 week, although frequently over the same ground, he had not 

 seen a single specimen ; but on visiting the spot on the 29th 

 and 30th, he found them in fine condition and flying in 

 abundance ; they were confined to the slope of the hill 

 beyond Fairlight Glen ; the species then being new to him 

 he took in two days some sixty specimens, and could have 

 taken some hundreds had he been disposed to do so. Mr. 

 Tugwell said it was pretty generally known that the species 

 was occasionally double-brooded. Mr. C. G. Barrett remarked 

 that it was only so in very warm places ; he had only met 

 with a single specimen of a second brood at Haslemere. 



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell exhibited a cocoon of ZygcEna 

 filipendidce, L., from near Leigh, Essex, not uniformly yellow, 

 remarking that sometimes the cocoons of this species were 

 half yellow and half white or whitish. 



Mr. Cockerell also exhibited Myzius sexcmcta, Fab., from 

 Long Island, and said that this species was found by Dr. 

 Riley in the stomachs of sparrows {Passer domesticus) in 

 thirty instances, thus showing that its wasp-like attributes did 

 not protect it from that bird ; also a Tipulid fly allied to 

 Tipula, but apparently belonging to a new or little known 

 genus, from Swift Creek, Custer Co., Colorado, where it 

 mimics a species of Ichneumonidae found in the same locality. 



