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the usual loose silk around it. The moth emerged in the 

 early part of the month, which was exceedingly late for the 

 species. He had made every possible inquiry to ascertain 

 whether any one in the neighbourhood had been rearing 

 silkworms, but no one appeared to have been doing so, and 

 it was impossible to account for its appearance. The fact 

 was notable because the larva must have travelled some 

 distance, a very unusual circumstance in this domesticated 

 insect. Mr. Tugwell and Mr. R. South remarked on the 

 wings of the specimen being fully developed, which was not 

 usual with those reared in captivity ; Mr. South adding, that 

 in Japan there were two forms — a domesticated one and a 

 wild one ; it was possible that some one in the vicinity of 

 Mr. Weir's house might have been rearing this wild form. 



Mr. W. H. Tugwell exhibited specimens of Epinephele 

 tithonus, L., from Devonshire, with three distinct ocelli in 

 each superior wing, and a specimen of Epinephele ianira, L., 

 from Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, with an extra ocellus. 



Mr. Tutt remarked that Major Still had recorded the exist- 

 ence of this form of TitJwnus in Devonshire ; Mr. Frohawk had 

 taken it at Chattenden, Kent ; Mr. Carrington in Essex ; 

 Mr. Hawes had received it from Devon and Norfolk ; Mr. 

 Briggs had taken it at Wandsworth and Wimbledon. Mr. 

 C. G. Barrett said, however, that although he had examined 

 large numbers of the species in Pembrokeshire, and found 

 many with varying numbers of additional dots, he had never 

 found any specimens so strongly marked as were those of 

 Mr. Tugwell. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited sundry species of Lepidoptera bred 

 during the present year from a miscellaneous lot of larvae 

 received from Forres in the previous autumn, including 

 Notodonta dictceoides, Esp., N. droviedarhis, L., Odontopera 

 bidtntata, Clerck., Drepana falcataria, L., Hypsipetes tri- 

 fasciata^ Bork., Cidaria covylata, Thnb., Cabera piisaria, L., 

 and Cymatophora duplaris, L., together with specimens of 

 some of the species from the South of England for com- 

 parison, and drew attention to the much brighter markings 

 in the Forres examples oi falcataria and bidentata than in 

 the southern specimens of the same species ; also to a 

 specimen of pusaria in which the first and central lines were 

 very close together, a feature regarded as indicating the 

 form C. roticndaria, Haw. Also bred specimens of Dianthoecia 

 nana, Rott, from Forres and North Devon which approached 

 each other somewhat closely in tone of coloration, and stated 

 that in an insect apparently liable to considerable local varia- 



