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embla, Chionobas jutta, Polyommatus bellargus, P. icavus, 

 Gonepteryx rhamni, and Spilosoma menthastri. These were all 

 much magnified, and their forms and markings very well 

 defined, especially in the case of the fine reticulations of the 

 last-named. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited three captured specimens of 

 Abraxas ulmata received from Mr. Hewitt, of York. Two 

 were very fine, dark, smoky forms, and the third was one 

 with the usual ground colour unusually clean white. Mr. 

 Tutt said that it had been reported by Dr. Riding that out 

 of the large number of specimens reared from dark parents 

 not one had been of the varietal form. Mr. Mansbridge said 

 that some years ago the experience of the Yorkshire men 

 was precisely the same, only normal forms resulted from ova 

 laid lay the then captured varieties. 



Mr. West exhibited a number of specimens of Forficula 

 lesnei taken by himself, some at Reigate on September 3rd, 

 and some at Box Hill. There were both males and females, 

 and the species was common. Mr. Lucas said that among 

 them was another form which he supposed to be a more or 

 less immature form of the female. It might even be a 

 distinct species. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited a series of the local grasshopper, 

 Mecastethus grossii,s, which had this year been comparatively 

 common in the New Forest. He very kindly presented a 

 specimen of both male and female to the Society's collec- 

 tions. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a yellow variety of Callimovpha 

 domimda (var. rossica) bred from a larva taken at Deal ; bred 

 specimens of Myelois cribrella, and stated that out of some 

 150 examples, there was scarcely a trace of variation ; a 

 specimen oi Abraxas grossulariata, having the space internal 

 to the marginal spots of a brownish tinge, while the 

 remainder of the wing-surfaces were normal ; and a series 

 oi Aglais ( Vanessa) urticcE, bred from Box Hill larvae, having 

 the large black blotch on the inner margin entirely absent or 

 only represented by one or two slight streaks. He stated 

 that about half the brood were of the varietal form, and 

 suggested that the fact of the larvae being fed up in a green- 

 house, and subject to abnormal heat and moisture, might have 

 produced this partial approach to the South European form, 

 var. ichnusa. He also said with reference to A . grossulariata, 

 that the species, so far as London was concerned, seemed 

 to have changed its food, being rarely found on the currant 

 or gooseberry, but almost invariably on Euonyinus. Mr. 



