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He had seen Pieris brassicce, L., repeatedly settle on white 

 blooms in a mass of red petunias. Polyoimnatus phlceas, L., 

 was in the habit of resting upon the withered heads of knap- 

 weed, and so effectually concealing itself. Mr. Barrett had 

 seen both P. brassicce and P. rapes concealed in numbers 

 under the leaves of the white poplar. 



DECEMBER izth, 1894. 

 T. W. Hall, Esq., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Leigh Robinson, of 54, Boundary Road, N.W., was 

 elected a member. 



Mr. C. A. Briggs exhibited a striking \2,x\Q.\.y oi Eiirrhypara 

 nrticata, L., in which all the black markings were considerably 

 extended, the marginal and submarginal bands being more 

 or less merged. 



Mr. H. Williams exhibited several specimens of Vanessa 

 urticcB, L., and contributed the following note : 



" The two short series of Vanessa urticcB exhibited are 

 representative of very long ones bred from Leigh, Essex, this 

 year, and are shown for the purpose of drawing attention to 

 the great difference in the ground coloration and dusky 

 markings of the two series. The whole of the larvae were 

 taken on one bed of nettles on the same day at the end of 

 July, one batch being nearly full grown at the time, and 

 pupated in a few days ; these produced light imagines. The 

 remaining larvae were apparently just hatched when captured, 

 and they fed up very well in glass jars, but when the resulting 

 imagines emerged, the difference between the two broods was 

 most striking, the ground colour of both wings of the latter 

 brood forming a considerable contrast to the former, whilst 

 the dusky ones, especially on the hind-wings, are much more 

 suffused than in those which were bred from the larvae which 

 were full grown when they were taken." 



Mr. McArthur exhibited specimens of Coleophora laricella, 

 Hb., from North Devon. 



Mr. Brooks, of Rotherham, exhibited the following species 

 from that neighbourhood : — Arctia caia, L., a specimen with 

 white fringe to the fore-wings. Polia chi, L., a series taken 

 on the stone walls in Grange Park during 1893 and 1894. 

 The specimens exhibit a considerable range of variation, from 

 pale well-marked examples to dark olive individuals with 

 scarcely any markings. In some specimens the hind-wings 

 are marked in a similar way to the fore-wings. Phigalia 



