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is rather lighter in colour than normal specimens. The dark 

 median band is entirely absent from the fore-wings, and the 

 outer series of white apical spots are suffused over the whole 

 apical area in the form of long grey streaks ; the inner series 

 of spots is absent. On the hind-wmgs the dark median band 

 is unusually narrow, but much suffused ; and there is no blue 

 spot at the anal angle. On the under surface the fore-wings 

 are without any of the usual markings, the apical area being 

 uniform pale grey. The hind-wings beneath are normal, but 

 much suffused. 



Mr. Manger exhibited a specimen of the rare stalk-eyed 

 crustacean, Gonoplax angiilata, which had been dredged off 

 Weymouth. The eye stalks of this species are remarkable 

 for their length as are also the anterior pair of legs. 



Mr. Step exhibited several specimens o{ Polyp ones per emits, 

 Fr., from Oxshott, which very plainly showed the habit of 

 growing around objects and enclosing them rather than 

 taking a fresh direction for growth. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited eight specimens oi Arctia caia, L., 

 bred from an equal number of larva picked up in his garden 

 at Lewisham at different times during the past spring. He 

 said the series was not shown as representing any strongly 

 marked varieties, for the whole of the specimens were very 

 uniform in pattern, but rather to illustrate sundry minor 

 points of variation. In the first place, while the ground- 

 colour of the fore-wings was in some of the specimens almost 

 white, in others it had a decided brownish tinge, very similar 

 in tone to that of some specimens exhibited by Mr. South at 

 a previous meeting ( " Proc. S.L.E. and N.H.S.," 1892-3, 

 p. 28), which had been artificially coloured by being killed 

 with nicotine. In the present case no such expedient had 

 been resorted to, the whole eight insects having been dealt 

 with under equal conditions, and killed in the " cyanide 

 bottle." Another point of variation was in the colour of the 

 hind-wings. This in some was a brilliant red, and in others 

 a decided orange colour ; the fringe of the hind-wings also 

 showed considerable modification of coloration, being in one 

 case completely pale yellow, while in another it was dark 

 brown for about half its length, and he further said that 

 although he had a considerable number of this species in his 

 collection, there was not one among them in which this brown 

 colour was carried so far round the wings as in this last 

 mentioned specimen. 



Mr. West (of Greenwich) exhibited a specimen of the rare 

 coleopteron Lebia cyanocephala, L., taken by himself at 



