A'BSTflACT OP PfiOCEEBINGS. 



JANUARY iiih, 1S94. 

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



Mr. Adkin exhibited several series of Thera juniperata, L., 

 from various Scotch locaHties, contrasting them with those 

 which Mr. Turner had exhibited at the previous meeting 

 from Purley. He especially noted the greater distinctness of 

 the apical streak, as well as the more general clearness of the 

 markings in the Scotch specimens. In several of the latter 

 the band was broken. 



Mr. Oldham exhibited a very varied series of Hybernia 

 defoliaria, L., and specimens of H. aui'aniiaria, Esp., from 

 Epping Forest ; also a well-marked specimen of the local 

 Libelbda qiiadriniaculata, L., from Cambridgeshire. 



Mr. South showed a series of remarkable varieties of 

 Cerastis vacdnii, L., taken in Kent and Surrey, with a series 

 of C. ligiUa, Scop. ( = (7. spadicea^ D.L.), for comparison. He 

 also exhibited a specimen of Acronycta aceris, var. infiiscata, 

 Haw., from Kent. 



Mr. W. A. Pearce exhibited some very beautiful Rhopalo- 

 cera from Alleghany Co., U.S.A., taken in 1892-93, viz.: — 

 Papilio asterias, Fb., P. turmis, L., P, phileno?', L., P. troilus, 

 L., Limenitis dissippus, Gait, L. iirsiila, Fb., and Apatura 

 clyton, Bd. 



Mr. Weir stated that the female of P. turniis was dimor- 

 phic, the light females shown being the northern form, while 

 further south a darker variety, var. glaucus, was found. Mr. 

 Weir also called attention to L. dissippits, which he said was 

 the mimic of the cosmopolitan Anosia plexippus, L. 



Mr. Mera exhibited Charaxes athceron and C. brutus, two 

 species of Nymphaline butterflies sent by Mr. Forrester from 

 Delagoa Bay. 



Mr. Auld exhibited an example of Vanessa io, L., which 

 had been exceedingly greasy, but which had been submitted 

 by Dr. Knaggs to his process of cleaning with methylated 

 ether. Tlie specimen was perfectly lestored to its pristine 

 state. It was remarked that this specimen was abnormal in 



