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OCTOBER %th, iSqi. 

 W. H. TUGWELL, Esq., Ph.C, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Waiter Smith was elected a member. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited a series of the confluent form of 

 Lyc(Bna icarits, Rott., from two North Kent localities. 



Mr. W. H. Tugwell exhibited examples of Agrotis agathina, 

 Dup., and A. strigida, Thnb., southern and northern types. 

 In both species the southern form being of a much redder 

 tone than the northern. He also exhibited Noctua castanea, 

 Esp., from Perthshire, and the var. neqlecta, Hb., from the 

 New Forest, Hants. 



Mr. Tugwell exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Boden, a speci- 

 men of Prodema literalis, Boisd., a species not found in ■'^ 

 Britain, and which was bred from a tomato by Mr. Boden. 

 The pupa case was also shown. 



Mr. South said the species was fairly common in India. 



Mr. J. Jager exhibited specimens of Calliniorpha hera, L., 

 and var. lutescens, L., bred from ova, the parent moth being 

 taken in Devonshire; also Agrotis ripce, Hb., bred from larvse 

 taken on the Essex coast. 



Mr. W. West (Streatham) showed a variety of Catocala 

 nupta, L., having the underwings shot with yellow. 



Mr, A. Robinson exhibited a Xow^soxi^soi Nonagvia cannce, 

 Och., taken by him and Mr. Bird in Norfolk, and called atten- 

 tion to two males and one female, which were extremely dark. 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett remarked that the series was of a different 

 range of colour from those he had previously seen in Norfolk. 



Mr. H. J. Turner exhibited ZygcBna meliloti, Esp., taken 

 this year in the New Forest, and examples of Limenitis sibylia, 

 L., and L. Camilla, W.V. (Continental). Mr. C. Fenn stated 

 with reference to ZygCEtia meliloti, Esp., that Mr. Fletcher had 

 told him that under no circumstances would the species pair 

 with Z. trifolii, although trifolii paired freely with Z. lomcercE. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited Sesia muscifonnis, View., from tlie 

 Isle of Man and Cornwall, all bred from sea thrift {Armeria 

 maritima, Willd.). Those from the former locality appeared 

 to be more robust and more densely clothed with scales than 

 the Cornish specimens. 



Mr. R. Adkin also exhibited a male and female specimens 

 of a Tortrix, bred from larvae feeding among the needles of a 

 shoot of Scotch fir that he had received from Tuam, Co. 

 Galway, and which had been described and figured from 

 specimens reared in 1890, under the name of Tortrix donelana^ 

 by Mr. G. H. Carpenter {Scien. Proc. R. Dublin Soc, vol. vii., 



