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warm and probably far damper than the New Forest ; while 

 Donegal was comparable for climate with the Scotch high- 

 lands. Mr. Tutt suggested that the female was always paler 

 than the male, but Mr. Kane assured him that the ochro- 

 leucism was equally represented in both sexes in his Irish 

 series. 



Bryophila viiiralis, Forst., one typical example and two 

 specimens of var. par, Hb. Mr. Kane stated that Mr. 

 Warren had recognised these as similar to his B. impar, 

 from Cambridge. The three exhibited were taken at the 

 same locality in Co. Cork ; and the variety existed, together 

 with the type, in considerable numbers, and exhibited every 

 gradation from the pallid almost obsolete form to the very 

 dark suffused specimen shown. Mr. Barrett and other 

 members expressed their opinion that the latter was the 

 darkest specimen they had ever seen. 



Xylocampa areola, Esp., two specimens, one extremely 

 dark, with the light markings very purple, and the other of 

 a very pale grey brown, with pale stigmata and band. These 

 Mr. Kane said were taken, probably emerged, in the same 

 locality in Co. Wicklow. Eiipithecia togata, Hb., with strongly 

 marked characters. E. venosata, Hb., very melanic, markings, 

 almost obsolete. Xylophasia monoglypha, Hufn., Agrotis 

 lucernea, \^.;Hadena oleracea, L., and Camptogramma bilineata, 

 L., from Kerry. All these were from one particular locality, 

 and the only Heterocera Mr. Kane had taken there. All 

 were very dark, the H. oleracea least affected, but still remark- 

 able, and the C. bilineata with black fore-wings and sepia 

 coloured hind-wings. He stated that the exhibit was not so 

 much remarkable, in his opinion, from the individual 

 characters of the insects, though the C. bilineata was un- 

 doubtedly a new form and worthy of a varietal name, but 

 because collectively they offered evidence of common in- 

 fluence toward a dark coloration. Of the latter insect he 

 had about fifty, all of which were similarly coloured ; but 

 among some fifty or sixty vionoglypha there were five or six 

 of the ordinary greyish-brown coloration. 



Mr. Barrett agreed with Mr. Kane in the interesting 

 nature of this exhibit, and especially in the surprisingly dark 

 form of C. bilineata shown, but said he had often seen English 

 specimens of H. oleracea, as dark as the Irish examples 

 shown. 



Other insects exhibited were Melanippe montanata, Bork,, 

 Odontoptera bidentata, Clerck., Boarmia repandata, L , Tepli- 

 rosia biundularia, Bork., Esp., which Mr. Kane stated occurred 



