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race was in itself moderately constant. Several forms be- 

 sides the type had been noticed in " British Noctuas and 

 their Varieties," vol. i, p. 134; but yet none of these were 

 like Mr. Lowe's or Mr. Ficklin's specimens. Mr. Lowe's 

 examples from Guernsey approached in their ochreous hue 

 the Continental type ; but, on the other hand, they had the 

 markings extremely well defined, and in this respect were 

 quite like var. ficklini and the better marked specimens of 

 var. barrettii. It was remarkable, now that the three forms 

 were for the first time brought together for comparison, how 

 very similar they were in general facies, yet so unlike in tint. 

 The two forms exhibited (i) for Mr. Lowe and (2) by Mr. 

 Ficklin were equally worthy of distinctive names with var. 

 barrettii, and he had already named Mr. Ficklin's form var. 

 ficklini. He intended also to bestow a distinguishing name 

 (var. lowei) on Mr. Lowe's variety. The three forms were 

 characterised as follows : 



Suffused fuscous form = var. barrettii. 



Paler, much greyer, with lighter markings = var. ficklini. 



Ochreous, with darker shading and almost white mark- 

 ings = var. lowei. 



Mr. Tutt further exhibited on behalf of Rev. F. E. Lowe, 

 of Guernsey, a fine aberration of Melanippe sociata, in which 

 the central band was reduced to a dark discal lunule. The 

 subterminal line was white, and all four wings were crossed 

 by a broad dark grey band just within the subterminal. 



FEBRUARY 24tk, 1898. 



Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Kaye, Worcester Park, Surrey, and Mr. Chatterton, 

 7, Clissold Road, Stoke Newington, were elected members. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited several varieties of species in 

 Lasiocampidai, including two males and a female oi Boinbyx 

 trifolii, bred by Mr. Mitford from the Kentish coast, of a light 

 bright yellow brown ; B. quercits, a dark male with semi- 

 transparent pale yellowish hind wings, another with fore 

 and hind wings semi-transparent over nearly their whole 

 area ; a pair of var. Calluncc, bred by the late Mr. Walton 

 fifty years ago from the Yorkshire moors, (these had remained 

 in pupa nearly two years) ; a dark and finely marked B. rubi ; a 

 very pale female Odonestis potatoria, devoid of the long oblique 

 transverse line, and a remarkably light brown specimen of 

 Lasiocampa quercifolia, with another of a pale buff colour with 

 lines and shades grey. 



