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SEPTEMBER iZth, 1893. 

 J. JENNER Weir, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. South exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Sabine, an 

 example of Lycczna batica, L-, and some splendid varieties of 

 Polyommatus p]il(£as^ L., captured at Dartford, Kent, on the 

 7th September: one of the latter was intermediate between 

 the type and the var. scluniddi, Gerh., and others were almost 

 black. Mr. Weir remarked upon the great geographical dis- 

 tribution of this species. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited a long series of Polyoniviaius 

 phlceas^ L., captured at Balham during the first week in 

 September, 1893., showing great variation in size and mark- 

 ings. They were mostly brilliant in colour ; two approached 

 the var. schniidtii, and two were without bands on the 

 secondaries, the usual copper band being replaced in those 

 examples by deep black ; also specimens from Shirley of 

 large size and rich in colour. He also exhibited a living 

 pupa o{ Argynnis papJiia, L., the larva having fed up during 

 the autumn, with a few others which hatched in July ; also a 

 larva of ^. adippe, L., in its last stage ; it emerged from the 

 egg in August. 



Mr. Jager exhibited six specimens of Lyccena ario?i, L., cap- 

 tured by Mr. Bignell in Cornwall, last June ; also a series of 

 Cidaria truncata, Hufn., bred August last, from Aberdovey. 



Mr. Fenn exhibited a series of Dasycainpa rubiginea^ Fb., 

 bred September, 1893, from Devonshire, and a long bred series 

 of Acidalia aversata, L. The female parent of this series was 

 reddish in the ground colour, and had a dark central band. 

 The offspring showed thirty-two banded and eight of the 

 ordinary form ; but, curiously enough, none of them had the 

 slightest tint of red in the ground colour, all being of an 

 uniform cold greyish ochreous. For comparison a series was 

 also shown of specimens with pink and pinkish ochreous 

 ground colour, both banded and ordinary ; and three speci- 

 mens of a form intermediate in colour between the pink and 

 greyish ochreous. Mr. Fenn also exhibited Nisoniades tages, 

 L., and Ematurga atoinaria, L., both second broods taken 

 commonly at Folkestone in the middle of August. A variety 

 of Tephrosia pimctiUaria, Hb., with two distinct white spots at 

 the tip of the left fore-wing ; an almost albino var. of 

 Eubolia bipunctaria, Schiff., a curious var. of Coremia 

 unidentaria, Haw , having a contracted band on the fore- 

 wings, and a great number of specimens of y4<:;'c;/j'<:/rt: riDnicis, 

 L., from various localities, to show the local" variation. 



