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of Mr. South, a dwarf specimen of EucJiloe cardamines, L., 

 measuring only i^ inches in expanse of wing. It was a 

 captured male ; also another male of the same species, pale 

 in colour, having the normal orange patch replaced by deep 

 yellow along the nervures, and pale yellow between them. 



Mr. Manger exhibited a large collection of insects of all 

 Orders, captured on the s.s. ** Kara," b}^ Captain T. Walker, 

 during a voyage from Wales to New York, thence through 

 the Suez Canal to Shanghai and Saigon, and home the same 

 way. 



Mr. Step said that such an array of species, caught actually 

 on a vessel, was suggestive of a very effective mode of 

 migration. 



Mr. West, of Greenwich, exhibited specimens of Crypto- 

 cepJialus nitidiiliis, GylL, and C. coryli, L., taken at Box Hill 

 during Whitsun. He also exhibited two very rosy males of 

 Svierintlms populi, L., which had been attracted by a female 

 placed on some ferns growing in his garden. This female 

 was one of a second brood of 1893, of which several had 

 emerged this year. The original pair were taken in cop. in 

 April. From these he had bred imagines in July, and from 

 these again some had been bred in September, while others 

 remained over. 



Mr. Filer exhibited a long series of Smej'intJms populi, L., 

 bred from one batch of ova. One of the males was distinctly 

 of the female coloration. All but one specimen emerged 

 this season, and that one came out on August 6th, 1893. 

 Mr. Adkin was pleased to note the partial autumnal emer- 

 gence of this species and said that it confirmed what Mr. 

 Barrett had stated some time ago. He observed, too, that 

 the discoidal spot on the primaries of the specimen bred in 

 August was much smaller and less white than in any of those 

 which remained over. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a bred series of Cyniatophora ridenSy 

 Fb., from the New Forest, and a larva of the same species ; 

 also a pupa of Melitia aurinia, Kott.=a7-le7nis, Fb. 



Mr. Step exhibited a series of Helix riifescens, Penn., 

 Lymncea peregra, Miill., var. acuminata, Jeff., from Epsom, a 

 var. more beautiful than the type ; and an ovum of Helix 

 pomatia, L., which had been side blown, one of a large 

 number taken during the Society's Field Meeting at Reigate 

 on June 9th. He said that there was a considerable amount 

 of calcareous matter in the shell which rendered it capable of 

 retaining its form when blown. Helix pomatia scraped, by 

 means of the contraction of its foot and the edge of its shell. 



