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take him a long series the following spring, but they were all 

 of the most ordinary form, just as found in England. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a specimen of Pieris napi, L., ?, 

 which he said came nearer to a variety that he had been 

 looking for for a long time, than any that he had previously 

 seen, namely, one in which the apical patch and the two spots 

 on the fore wings coalesced so as to form an irregular sub- 

 marginal band. In the specimen exhibited the band was 

 almost complete, being interrupted only by a clear white line 

 of less than a hair's breadth between the two spots. The 

 specimen was taken near the Essex coast during the past 

 summer. He further said that the nearest approach to the 

 form mentioned that he had previously seen was one of a 

 series from the North of Ireland, in which, although the spots 

 were almost as nearly united as in the Essex specimen, the 

 separation between them and the apical patch was very 

 distinct. 



Mr. Tugwell exhibited a box of Lepidoptera received from 

 Mr. W. Reid, of Pitcaple, and remarked that there was 

 nothing of any importance among them ; he commented on 

 the poor success Mr. Reid had met with ; he had heard, how- 

 ever, that he had taken Retinia duplana, Hb., a few Crambus 

 myelins, Stigmonota dorsana, and a species of the Pterophorina 

 which he could not identify, the larvse of which fed on the 

 underside of the leaves of ragwort. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett said the first reputed specimens of R. 

 duplana were not this species at all, but were referable to 

 turionana ; it was subsequently suggested that duplana 

 occurred earlier in the year, and since then Mr. Salvage and 

 Mr. Reid had both obtained it. 



Mr. S. Edwards exhibited a pair of Ornithoptera brookiana 

 from Borneo, the 5 being much rarer than <^ . It is only 

 within the last two years that the ? has become commoner — 

 Distant, in his book, says about 1,000 S to only 15 ? — also 

 $ Papilio nox from Borneo, rather rare, P. ulopus from 

 Mexico, P. lankeswara from Malay Archipelago, and P. 

 pandion var. of pompeius from Mexico ; also Kallima buxtoni 

 from Sumatra, one of the dead-leaf mimicking species. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir remarked that Ornithoptera brookiana, 

 until lately, had alone represented a section of the genus, but 

 that recently an allied species had been discovered in Palawan, 

 thus affording a further contribution to the probability that 

 the fauna and flora of that island would prove to be more 

 Bornean than Philippine. 



The Secretary read the following letter from Mr, Mans- 



