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having additional ocelli on the hind wings, and that the blue 

 of the larger ocellus was very curiously distributed. 



Mr. Tugwell sent for exhibition a series of three forms of 

 Spilosonia lubricipeda, among which were var. radiata, Haw., 

 the "York City form" (erroneously called radmta), and a 

 banded form which he proposed to ndLvne vdiV. fasciata. Of 

 the latter there were three rows of males and two rows of 

 females, and in his note accompanying the exhibition Mr. 

 Tugwell said of these that they were the progeny of one 

 paring, but that all the specimens were not of the extreme 

 form to which the varietal name applied. In all of them, 

 however, there was a tendency to exhibit the characters 

 which were distinctive of the variety — i.e., a strong central 

 fascia and the suppression to a great extent of the usual 

 diagonal rows of spots. Attention was also called to the 

 ?-like markings on all four wings of many of the specimens. 

 Referring to the York City form, and comparing it with true 

 radiata, it would be " evident to anyone that, although some- 

 what alike, yet they were quite distinct." In the former 

 " the diagonal row of markings is very strongly in evidence, 

 whilst in radiata this character is looked for in vain." 



Among other species exhibited by Mr. Tugwell were a 

 pair of Phisia inoneta, Fab., bred by Mr. G. Matthews, from 

 Sittingbourne, with a cocoon on the food plant, Acotiitwn 

 napellus, L. ; three dark Irish specimens of Agrotis lucernea, 

 L.; six specimens of the dark form oi Boarmia repandata, L., 

 from Sheffield ; four Dicranura bicuspis, Bork., bred from 

 Tilgate ; eleven Callimorpha her a, L., bred from ova from 

 Starcross, Devonshire ; two Pachetra leucophcea, View., taken 

 on the North Downs by Mr, Hanbury; six of the remarkable 

 dark Irish form of Cainptogramiua bilineata, L. 



Mr. Weir called the attention of members to Dr. Chap- 

 man's paper " On the Structure of Heterocerous Pupae, and 

 their Value in Classification," published in " Trans. Ent. 

 Soc," Pt. I., 1893. 



JANUARY i^th, 1894. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



J. JENNER Weir, Esq., F.L.S., F.E.S., etc., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The evening was devoted to receiving the reports of the 

 Council and Officers for the past year, the reading of the 

 President's address, and the election of Officers and Council 

 for the ensuing year. 



