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machaon, L., Leiicophasia sinapis, L., G onopteryx rJiaimti, L., 

 Vanessa iirtic(B^ L., V. antiopa, L., Argynnis paphia, L., 

 and Livienitis sibylla, L,, and also other species almost 

 identical. He stated that out of forty species he received, 

 over twenty were referable to species indigenous to Britain. 



Mr. T. W. Hall exhibited a considerable number of 

 Melanippe fiuctuata, L., obtained from Perthshire. Several 

 were of the form var. neapolisata, Mill., one was of an 

 ochreous coloration, others had the central dark band more or 

 less obliterated or narrowed in the inner marginal half, 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited, on behalf of Mr. R. Arm- 

 strong Adkin, the following moUusca : — light forms of Helix 

 aspersa, Miill., brown and grey forms of//", ericetorum, Miill., 

 having unusually high spires, an unusually large specimen of 

 H. virgata, Da Cos., also with a high spire, and H. caperata, 

 Mont., all from Eastbourne, Sussex. 



Mr. Step noted how dark Helix aspersa was this year, and 

 attributed it to the unusually wet season. He also said that 

 he had noticed it climbing much higher into the trees than 

 he had ever observed it to do before. 



Mr. Perks exhibited a photograph of the fox shark, 

 Alopecias vulp£s, which had been captured off the coast of 

 Devon. The fish measured seven feet in length. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited on behalf of Mr. Tugwell 

 a box containing a large number of Zygcsna exulans, Hoch., 

 taken in July of this year at Braemar, with cocoons in situ 

 on crowberry {Empetrum nigrum, L.), and communicated the 

 following note : — 



"There are two rows of females and three rows of males. 

 The females have white, the males have black legs ; the 

 females have a white collar to the thorax, while in the males 

 the thorax is entirely black ; the body of the female has 

 short hair or scales, but on the body of the male these are 

 long and fluffy ; the females have the raised nervures of the 

 wings dusted with white scales, while the males have no such 

 scales." 



Mr. Tutt said that he had no idea what Z. exulans was like 

 until he saw the Swiss ones in their native clime. In his 

 opinion our Scotch var. subochracea was simply a rubbed and 

 worn insect picked out, and in its pristine condition no doubt 

 equally beautiful with the Swiss insect. 



Mr. Tutt then remarked upon the different climatic condi- 

 tions under which the same species live in high alpine dis- 

 tricts and in our own country. He stated that it was 

 impossible to obtain any Nocture flying at night. The heat 



