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birch. Curiously enough, out of some sixty or seventy pupse 

 only eighteen emerged, and seventeen of these were females, 

 The remainder of the brood is awaiting exclusion in the spring. 

 Delunaria, Hb., the summer brood, varies, as far as the speci- 

 mens exhibited are concerned, from the spring brood in the 

 following particulars, i.e., they are rather larger, the markings 

 more sharply defined, the coloration brighter, and the line 

 beyond the middle of the forewing more distinctly vertical ; 

 but this last character does not appear to be constant. The 

 Sutherland-Essex examples are a curious form, the ova from 

 which they were produced were received from Mr. W. H. B. 

 Fletcher of Worthing." 

 i(JU^t*^^<Hx A considerable discussion took place with regard to the 

 is.f^M^i^'^^origin of the North English examples oi Spilosoma lubricipeda, 

 itX^j^W^'^i^. radiata. Mr. Tutt stating that Mr. Harrison, of Barnsley, 

 W.vd'.^fi. ^°^^°^^ ^" Lincolnshire, (not Yorkshire, as was first stated), 

 -^W^t'heprogeny of which had been bred indoors, but that it had 

 , u^t spread in a state of nature. Mr. Fenn remarked upon the 

 [kA.*^ ^probability of the parent specimen having been imported by 

 j^^tr*^^a ship or otherwise. 



L||wi '**' 'Ti^'''' Robert Adkin exhibited a series of Thecla bettdcB, L., 

 ftijji^fM'^^ read the following note : — "At a recent meeting of the 

 ^ l^^j^^^c^^y Mr. Dennis exhibited this species, and remarked upon 

 J**^ riaJ, ?**^ early appearance this year, his series having been bred at 

 fc>»^ the end of June, from larvae taken in Epping Forest. The 



{JiV*^ specimens now shown were bred from larvae taken in the New 

 kjL»-^ forest in the early part of June ; they began to pupate about 

 L?|^;»rt*«'^^he 20th, and had nearly all assumed that state by the end of 

 . - f Iw^-the month. The first imago emerged on July i6th, and the 

 KjV?\j^ last on August 9th, both the larvae and pupae having been 

 y "'^ kept out of doors. The dates of the appearance of the two 

 sexes were unusually clearly marked, and were as follows : — 



Males. Females. 



July 16 — 2 

 „ 18—4 

 „ 20—3 



July 21 — I 



M 23—1 

 „ 26—1 



„ 28—3 

 „ 29—1 



a" ^°~' 

 Aug. 2 — 2 



»> 3—2 



» 4—1 



., 9—1 



Thus only one female had emerged during the time that the 



