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Mr. Carpenter stated that an example of Vanessa atalanta, 

 L., had been caught flying in Upper Thames Street, City. 



Some discussion took place as to whether Colias edusa, Fb., 

 hybernated in the larval stage in this country, and Mr. Hawes 

 stated that he had reared ten specimens from ova laid on 

 15th August. Mr. Frohawk said he had larvae of this species 

 feeding indoors, and so far as he could see they would not 

 hybernate, but all the larvae that he had had feeding out of 

 doors died off. Mr. C. Fenn said he had never seen a freshly- 

 emerged specimen before June. Some further ob'^ervations 

 were made as to the imago being reduced in size if fed up 

 rapidly ; but Mr. Frohawk did not concur, stating that the 

 examples of C. edusa, taken by him in June, were smaller than 

 those reared from them. 



NOVEMBER lotk, 1892. 

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



Mr. Billups exhibited the curious dipteron, Stratiomys 

 potamida, Mg., and its rare hymenopterous parasite, Smicra 

 sispes, Sp., one of the very numerous species of Chalcididae. 

 Both these insects were captured in the Plumstead Marshes, 

 June 25th, this year. 



Mr. H. Williams exhibited living larvae of Colias hyale, L., 

 and stated that he had already obtained one pupa. 



Mr, Mera exhibited varieties of LyccBna icarus, Rott., from 

 Felixstowe; L. bellargus, Rott., from Folkestone, and Abraxas 

 grossulariata, L. 



Mr. W. F. de V. Kane exhibited a box of Irish Macro- 

 Lepidoptera, of which the following were the most notable 

 and commented on. Stauropus fagi, L., from Kerry, a first 

 Irish record. Notodonta bicolor, Hb., from a new locality in 

 Kerry ; and Mr. Kane stated that he had good reason to 

 think that it might be more numerous there than at Mucross. 

 DianthcBcia luteago, Hb., var. barrettii, Dbl. bred. 



Boannia cinctaria, Schiff, from Killarney (one male and 

 two females), with very white bands and pale ground colour. 

 He said these specimens were the extreme form, but that his 

 series from Killarney showed a decided tendency to paleness 

 in comparison with those he had seen from the New Forest. 

 Also that in the extreme north of Donegal, he had noticed 

 a similar character, and in the only Sligo specimen he had 

 taken it was very distinctive. He failed, therefore, to see 

 that this species was influenced by either damp or cold in the 

 direction of melanism ; the forests of Killarney being at least as 



