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by food, but very greatly by climate. Although Mr. Gregson 

 claimed that many of his varieties were produced by food, yet 

 he had taken especial care in selecting the parents and 

 crossing, 



Mr. Robert Adkin also exhibited Acronycta ruinicis, L., 

 from the Scilly Isles, Isle of Man, South of Ireland, and 

 North of Scotland, and remarked that the series was interest- 

 ing in that the Scillonian, Manx, and Scotch specimens were 

 all light in colour, while among the Irish, both captured and 

 bred, were many quite dark, one in particular among the 

 latter, having the fore-wings velvety black, with the exception 

 of a white submarginal line and fringes, and a small dot of 

 the same colour at the anal angle, and the hind-wings much 

 suffused with dark grey. 



He also exhibited a series o{ EiLpithecia jasiomata, Crewe., 

 bred from larvae taken in the South of Ireland. 



Several members agreed that the dark form exhibited was 

 the form of A. ruinicis called salicis by Curtis. 



Mr. Mansbridge exhibited a very long bred series of 

 Abraxas grossidariata, L., and read the following note: — 



" In 1891, I had about 1,000 larvae taken in a garden at 

 Horsforth, but. not one var. was bred. In 1892, from the 

 same number of larvas taken in the same garden I bred 68 

 varieties one of which was figured in Mosley's varieties of 

 Brit. Lepidoptera, The series of ^. sylvata, L. = ulmata, Fb. 

 from Edlington Wood, Doncaster, represents the normal 

 amount of variation selected from upwards of 10,000 speci- 

 mens in the wood. The smoky suffused var. was very rare." 



Mr, Adkin remarked that in the A. grossulariata of one 

 year the variation was in the same direction in most of the 

 specimens, viz., a general elongation of the black spots. Mr. 

 Fenn said that in the neighbourhood of York he had always 

 understood there was a constant pale form of A. sylvata 

 which was by no means uncommon. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited a female of Lyccena corydon, Fb., 

 from Amboise, in France, having the male coloration. It 

 was a most beautiful variety, the blue being of two distinct 

 shades, the lighter forming broad lines along all the veins. 

 He also exhibited specimens of Bonibyx quercus, L., from 

 Gironde, Catocala nupta, L., from Podensac, and Ocneria 

 dispar, L., from Bordeaux, with a batch of ova laid by the 

 latter. He remarked that O. dispar was seen not uncom- 

 monly in both North and South France, but he had not 

 observed a single specimen in mid France. Mr. Barrett 

 called attention to the profusion of down covering the ova of 



