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bushes, but certainly no sallow ; although the series was a 

 short one, it comprised modifications of almost every known 

 form of variation in this species. 



Mr. South also exhibited bred examples from several 

 broods of Coreniia unidentaria, Haw., and C. ferrugata, 

 Clerck., and contributed a short paper (p. 69). 



Mr. Goldthwait mentioned that from a captured female of 

 C. unidentaria, taken in June, he had obtained ova, and the 

 larvse had fed up, but so far he had only bred a few imagines, 

 and these were certainly exactly like the parent, and showed 

 no trace of resemblance to C. ferrugata ; but he would, of 

 course, be better able to speak when the remainder of the 

 brood emerged. He had also bred a lot of C. ferritgata- and 

 he did not find they showed any trace of approaching 

 C. unidentaria. 



Mr. C. Fenn said he had constantly found, on rearing these 

 tv\o species, that they bred true, and he had never obtained 

 an intermediate form ; and in his opinion he considered they 

 were distinct, although they occurred at the same time of the 

 }'ear, and were both double-brooded. He never had the 

 slightest hesitation in referring those with the black fascia to 

 C. unidentaria, and those with the red fascia to C. ferrugata. 

 Mr. Fenn added that he did not think it would be possible 

 to distinguish between the larvae of the two species. 



Mr. Tutt concurred in the view that both species were 

 distinct, and referred to the opinions arrived at by Mr. 

 Pearce and Mr. Merrick, who, from an examination of the 

 genital organs of the two species, had come to the conclusion 

 that they were undoubtedly distinct. 



Mr. R. South exhibited a very curious aberration of Vanessa 

 atalanta, L., taken in Jersey ; the scarlet band of the superior 

 wings being broken up at the end, the usual short white band 

 from the costa being absent, as also were the black spots 

 from the red band on the inferior wings. 



NOVEMBER 2\th, 1892. 



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



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited specimens of Pyrameis cardui 

 which he had received from Larimie County, Colorado, cap- 

 tured at an elevation of upwards of 7,000 feet; these, if they 

 had been obtained in Australia, would undoubtedly have been 

 deemed to be Pyrameis kershawi, the three blue pupils to the 

 ocelli or the lower wings being even more strongly marked 

 than in that sub-species. One of the latter, also shown, had 



