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prominent difference being a pale orange breast, and that, I 

 believe, only in the males. 



" I met with the following English butterflies in the Indian 

 Territory last summer, viz. : — Pieris rapcB, Vanessa atalanta, 

 V. antiopa. At St. Louis, Missouri, 400 miles N.E. of Indian 

 Territory, I found : — Pieris rapce, Chrysophanus phlceas, 

 Cynthia cardui, V. antiopa. 



" Some forty species of Rhopalocera fell to my net, and 

 about the same number of Heterocera, among which were 

 some melanic examples of a species of Agroiis. I did not 

 collect vigorously or very often else my list would have been 

 greatly augmented." 



MARCH ^th, 1894. 



E. Step, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of Erebia epipJiron, Knoch., 

 var. cassiope, Fb., from Inverness, and read the following 

 note : — 



•'The specimens exhibited fairly represent a long series 

 received from this locality, and it was said that the type 

 [epiphron, Knoch.) was included among them. A careful 

 examination of the specimens, however, failed to detect the 

 white pupils to the occllated spots, by which the type is 

 distinguished from var. cassiope in the female ; and although 

 I have the species from several Scotch and North English 

 localities, I have never seen one that appeared to show the 

 white pupils." 



Mr. Weir said that so far as he knew the British form had 

 no trace of the white spot. 



Mr. Routledge exhibited a representative series of a brood 

 of Selenia bilunaria, Esp., bred from a female taken in April, 

 1892. The whole brood had remained in pupa throughout 

 the summer, emerging as moths in April, 1893. Thus a 

 spring brood produced a spring brood, and not a summer 

 form as it usually does. PVom this latter brood he again 

 bred a series (also exhibited), which had emerged at intervals 

 during the autumn and winter up to the middle of February. 

 All were of the small summer form, although several had the 

 pigment well developed. 



He also exhibited a series of Epunda lutidenta, Bork., 

 from Cumberland, among which were representatives of both 

 var. sedi, Gn., and var. lunebnrgcnsis, Frr. It was remarked 

 that as recently as 1888 this species and both its vars. had 

 been captured at Darenth Wood Kent. 



