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around pine trees ; he mentioned that others had been seen 

 in 1897. He also exhibited a number of species of Lepi- 

 doptera captured at sugar during the present season, and 

 said he had found it very attractive at Wicken in June, 

 when even northerly winds and occasional moonlight made 

 little difference in the number of revellers. A thick fog on 

 one evening, however, was very deterrent. In August sugar 

 again was attractive at Hailsham, sixty species being noticed 

 during a week, including a number of Geometrids and two 

 Lithosids. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited on behalf of Mr. Newman some 

 interesting varieties of Lepidoptera, of which the following 

 were the most notable : 



A rgynnis paphia, a specimen much suffused with black ; 

 taken at Brockenhurst on July 17th, i8g8. 



Smerinthus tilm, a series selected from a large number 

 bred during the past summer from parents taken at Bexley, 

 Kent, in the previous year. In some of the specimens the 

 central band was reduced to a triangular blotch, and the 

 ground-colour of the wings of some was very pale. 



Smerinthus populi, a series similarly reared, which included 

 pinkish and unusually dark forms. 



Saturnia pavonia, a subdiaphanous specimen bred June 

 i6th, 1899, from a larva taken on the Cotswold Hills in 

 August, 1896, the pupal stage having thus extended to the 

 third year. 



A series of cross-bred Pygcera, the result of a pairing 

 between P. curtula and P. pigra {recliLsa). About half of the 

 whole brood which emerged consisted of 120 individuals, 117 

 of them being females, and only three males; the remainder 

 of the pupae were laying over. The first imago emerged on 

 August 20th, the time from the hatching of the egg being 

 thirty-two days. 



The exhibit also included sundry more or less aberrant 

 forms of Arctia caia, Odoiicstis poiatoria, Lasiocainpa quevcih, 

 and Hepialiis hipnlinus, taken in or bred from the neighbour- 

 hood of Dartford during the last four years, 



Mr. Adkin read a paper entitled " More Lazy Days by the 

 Sea " (page 44). 



In the discussion which ensued, Mr. Harrison said that 

 he had observed both P. cardui and P. atalanta in Delamere 

 Forest, the latter being very plentiful. A. urticce was very 

 scarce. Mr. Sich had seen H. semele and various dragon- 

 flies on the fence mentioned by Mr. Adkin, and thought that 

 they were there for warmth. Mr. Carpenter said that he had 



