ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



JANUARY i^k, 1892. 



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



Mr. A. Harrison, F.C.S., F.R.M.S., was elected a member. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited specimens of Sesia ichneiimoni- 

 formis, Fb., bred from roots oi Lotus corniadatus, L., obtained 

 on the Sussex coast. Mr. Tugwell remarked that the larva 

 of S. ichneumoniformis was generally supposed to feed on 

 the common bird's-foot trefoil {Lotus corniadatus, L.), but it 

 had also been reported as occurring in the roots of hellebore ; 

 the species had frequently been bred by Mr. Salvage of 

 Brighton, who was one of the earliest to discover the larva. 

 Mr. South said that the elder McArthur was the first to find 

 the larva of this species in the roots of Lotus, and he, at one 

 time, obtained it in considerable numbers. 



Mr. Adkin also exhibited three specimens of Eurrhypara 

 urticata, L., taken at Lewisham, on one evening during the 

 past summer : two of them were normal, but in the third the 

 marginal shading was united with the inner band, thus 

 forming a broad black border to all the wings. Mr. South 

 remarked that he had captured and examined a great many 

 examples of this species, but he had never obtained anything 

 approaching the variety exhibited. 



Mr. J. Jager exhibited two modified examples of Vanessa 

 antiopa, var. hygicea, Heyd., bred by Mr. William Werner, of 

 Biedenkoff, Germany, and remarked that in one specimen 

 the yellow border obliterated the dark band and blue spots 

 on the primaries, whilst the secondaries were normal ; in the 

 second specimen the yellow border, which was much suffused 

 with black, broadened out considerably, and entirely absorbed 

 the dark band and blue spots on all the wings, 



Mr. Weir said that he had received a great many specimens 

 of V. antiopa, from Hudson's Bay, and considered it singular 

 that the species should occur so far north, especially as snow 

 was on the ground during eight months of the year. 



Mr. Tugwell exhibited some dark specimens of a species 

 of Eupithecia which had been sent out by Paisley collectors 

 for some years past, and which was generally known as the 



