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recent experiences during a journey to Manitoba. {Vide 

 page 140). 



Messrs Fenn, Watson, and others took part in the 

 discussion which ensued, and a hearty vote of thanks to 

 Mr. Carrington was unanimously passed. 



NOVEMBER 23rd, 1893. 

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



Mr. Carpenter exhibited captured specimens of Argynnis 

 paphiUy L., from the New Forest, one male and one female, 

 each having a portion of the right primary whitish ; also a 

 non-metallic intermediate var. valesina. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited specimens of A. paphia and var. 

 valesina, which had emerged on November 20th and 2ist; 

 the pupa had been kept at the ordinary temperature. He 

 also reported having bred Vanessa atalanta, L., this month ; 

 and that the Apatura iris to which Mr. Watson referred at 

 the last meeting, had emerged, but was a cripple. A long dis- 

 cussion ensued regarding the second emergence of some of 

 the Argynnidae. In these instances the metamorphoses, which 

 usually take eight or nine months, were this year completed 

 in as many weeks. The general opinion appeared to be that 

 temperature by itself had very little influence. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited Lyccena trochilus, which he had 

 received from the South African Republic, where it had been 

 taken by Dr. Percy Rendall ; also Lyccena exilis, taken by 

 Professor Cockerell at Las Cruces, New Mexico. He stated 

 that these two butterflies were probably the smallest known 

 species of the Rhopalocera, each measuring about 15 mm. 

 in expanse of the primaries. British L. minima, Fues., 

 ranged in size from 17 to 22 mm. in expanse of wing. 

 This species was the type of the genus Zizera, to which 

 trochilns was by some systematists considered to belong also ; 

 if such were the case it would be a good illustration of the 

 undesirability of giving to any species a comparative name. 

 Those Entomologists who do not divide into different genera 

 the blue butterflies of the genus Lyccsna or Polyommatus have 

 to describe the two small species in question as smaller than 

 L. minima, which is absurd. 



Mr. Robt. Adkin exhibited two specimens of Polyommatus 

 phlcgas, L., showing modification of the copper band of the 

 hind wings ; and stated that in one this band is represented 

 by five narrow copper streaks on the wing-rays, the remainder 

 of it being obliterated by the black colour ; in the other, the 



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