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wild females, the male parents being unknown, and in the 

 first broods reared only about lo per cent, were of the same 

 form of the particular female parent. These were paired 

 with males of the same variety, and again bred from, with 

 the result that in the fourth year only about 4 per cent, 

 were dissimilar to the parent form. The series exhibited, 

 comprised, among others, dark forms with pale stigmata 

 and the " gothic " mark purplish black; light "golden" 

 forms, gothic mark reddish brown ; banded forms, stigmata 

 outlined with yellow ; reddish forms with gothic mark of a 

 slightly darker shade ; greyish and reddish-brown forms in 

 which the "gothic" mark was absent ( = var. gothicina). 

 He also sent for exhibition series of two very distinct forms 

 oi Abraxas grossiilariata, in one of which the fore-wings were 

 much obscured by an increase of the black markings, while 

 in the other the black markings, with the exception of the 

 discoidal spots, were absent from the central areas of all the 

 wings. Also series of Melanthia hicolorata, var. plnmhata, and 

 very fine examples oiPachnohia hyperborea from the Perthshire 

 mountains. 



Mr. Harrison exhibited the eggs of the Niger crocodile 

 {Crocodilus cataphr actus) , and also the eggs of a Bulimus from 

 the same locality. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited five species of the scarce or little 

 known British dragon-flies, taken this season. These were 

 Sympetrum sanguineiiin , from Sandwich, Kent, and one male 

 from Ockham Common ; Sympetrum flavcolmn, from Ockham 

 Common ; jEschna mixta, one male from Ockham Common ; 

 Libellula fulva, one male from Sandwich, shewing the blue 

 coloration, which only develops a considerable time after 

 emergence ; Agrion mercuriale, male and female from the 

 New Forest. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited specimens of Zonosoma annulata, bred 

 by Dr. Riding from ova obtained from females bred or cap- 

 tured near Buckerell. These were remarkable from the fact 

 that a large percentage were of the ab. obsoleta, and one 

 example of the ab. biobsoleta. He stated that Dr. Riding 

 had twice captured the ab. obsoleta in East Devonshire, in 

 the neighbourhood where Mr. D'Orville, some twenty or 

 thirty years ago, had taken a similar aberration. Details of 

 the two broods were given, and the results from the second 

 brood were anxiously looked forward to in the spring of 

 1899. 



Mr. Tutt also exhibited for Mr. Thornhill a most curiously 

 marked female specimen of Euchloc cardamincs from Cam- 



