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Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited coloured drawings of the 

 larva and pupa and a large and beautiful bred series of 

 Melitcea cinxia, L., from the Isle of Wight, showing much 

 variation in depth of marking: one specimen having very- 

 dark suffused hind wings, whilst in others the central band 

 of the fore-wings was absent. 



Mr. Frohawk also exhibited a male example of Pieris napi, 

 L., bred from ova laid June, i8gi, the larva pupating in July, 

 and the imago emerging June, 1892. The specimen was 

 almost intermediate between the spring and summer forms of 

 the species, but more nearly approached the spring form. 



Mr. W. H. Tugwell exhibited varieties of Argynnis selene, 

 Schiff., one specimen having three separate silver spots on 

 the upper surface of each of the inferior wings, and a variety 

 of Melitcea athalia, Rott., with one of the inferior wings 

 almost black. 



Mr. T. W. Hall exhibited a spike of Foxglove {Digitalis 

 purpurea, L.), with one of the flowers at the top of the spike 

 fully developed, and in appearance very like the canterbury 

 bell. Mr. R. Adkin reminded the meeting that Mr. W. A. 

 Pearce had exhibited a somewhat similar variety on a former 

 occasion. 



Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited fine examples of Edelweiss, 

 which he stated had been grown in the open-air in Mr. G. F. 

 Wilson's experimental gardens at Wisley, Surrey. 



Mr. Tugwell remarked that, in company with Mr. Porritt, 

 he had been recently collecting in Abbott's Wood, Sussex ; 

 and in the course of eight nights' sugaring, he estimated that 

 they had seen twenty thousand insects on the sugar, and 

 during the trip they had taken examples of one hundred and 

 sixty-one species of Macro-lepidoptera. 



JULY i^tk, 1892. 

 C. G. Barrett, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. C. Oldham exhibited, among other species, Dicycla 00, 

 L., and Cymatophora octogesima, Hb., taken at sugar in Epping 

 Forest. He remarked that Calymnia trapezina, L., had been 

 very scarce in the Forest, and many other common oak-feeding 

 species had been noticeable on account of their small size, 

 which he attributed to the denudation of the oaks by the 

 larvae of Tortrix viridana, L. 



Mr. Barrett having observed that C. octogesima was an un- 

 usual species to obtain at sugar, Mr. Oldham said he found it 



