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SEPTEMBER %th, 1892. 



J. Jenner Weir, Esq., F.L.S., F.E.S., Vice-President, in 



the Chair. 



Mr. M. Winkley exhibited a variety of Catocala nupta, L., 

 with the normal red colour of the hind wings replaced by 

 pale brown, sliot with purple, and closely resembling C. 

 fraxini, L. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited Satyrus seinele, L., bred from ova 

 from a female captured in the New Forest, the series showing 

 great variation in the depth of colouring in both sexes, one 

 female having tlie underside suffused. 



Mr. C. Fenn exhibited a long series of Cidaria truncata, 

 Hufn., bred from a female captured at Chattenden, showing 

 three distinct forms: viz., with a whitish central band, a 

 black central band, and a yellow band ; the latter, he said, 

 was known as var. centumnotata, Fab., (comp. Abst. Proc, 

 1889, P- 147) ; and he directed special attention to one 

 specimen of the latter form, the band of which was very 

 pale and had the appearance of being bleached or worn. 



Mr. Fenn also exhibited a series of Calymnia pyralina^ 

 View., from Reading. 



Mr. W. H. Tugwell exhibited Spilosonia luhricipeda, Esp., 

 var. radiata, St., with their Yorkshire parents, and stated 

 that out of some three hundred larvae which had been fed on 

 Sambucus niger, only three had produced moths this season ; 

 the remainder would winter as pupae ; whilst the three which 

 emerged had only been in pupa three weeks. 



Mr. J. H. Carpenter exhibited a specimen of Sirex 

 j'uvencus, taken in Belsize Park ; and Mr. Short also reported 

 its capture at Putney, a specimen having been sent to him 

 from that district. 



Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited a Pyrale, which he stated 

 to be a new species, taken at Totland Bay in June last, allied 

 to fuscalis ; also typical Botys fuscalis, Schifif., and B. 

 terrealis, Tr., for comparison. Mr. Fenn thought that the 

 specimen differed f.om fuscalis in the character of the 

 transverse lines. Mr. Frohawk said that he could see no 

 difference between the specimen and fuscalis, except its 

 superior size ; it certainly had a slightly sharper angle at 

 the upper part of the elbowed line, and some pale patches 

 between the nervures of the hind wings, but both these last 

 characters were shown in one or other of the ordinary speci- 

 mens oi fuscalis. 



