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27th, 1892. The usual red colour of the hind wings is 

 replaced by a very delicate warm brown, and a purplish glow 

 covers the entire area of the wings (see " Ent.," vol. xxv., 

 p. 243). 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited the following varieties of 

 Argynnis aglaia, all captured near Brighton in July last : — 

 (i) A male example, having the basal two thirds of all the 

 wings black, with the exception of a small irregular tawny 

 blotch in the neigbourhood of the discoidal cell and another 

 near the base of the forewingS; the black coloration being 

 continued to the outer margins along the veins, and having a 

 black spot on each of the spaces between the latter. The 

 pattern of the under side followed that of the upper in general 

 contour, but the silver spots were reduced to two on each 

 hind wing. The specimen was taken at rest, shortly after 

 emergence from pupa. (2) A male, having a greenish-white 

 blotch on each of the wings on the left side, similar to the 

 blotches found not infrequently in specimens of Argynnis 

 paphia. (3) A male, having some of the black spots on the 

 central portion of the under side of the fore- wings run together 

 into irregular zigzag bands. (4) Two unusually dark coloured 

 females, one of them being very large, and having an 

 imperfectly pigmented patch on the outer margin of each of 

 the wings on the left side. 



Mr. R. Adkin also exhibited long series oiMelanippe galiata, 

 from Eastbourne and Brighton, showing extreme variation 

 in the intensity of colour of the central band, and read the 

 following notes in explanation of his exhibit : 



" The series exhibited represent three emergences from 

 Eastbourne parents, and one from ova obtained at Brighton. 

 The moth from which the Eastbourne series resulted was 

 taken on July 25th, i8gg (" Proceedings," 1899, p. 49). From 

 the ova thus obtained a brood was fed up which pupated 

 between August i8th to 20th. Moths emerged from Sep- 

 tember 5th to loth, and consisted of a number of very 

 ordinary individuals, together with a few each of very 

 darkly banded and pale bluish-grey banded examples. The 

 remainder of this brood passed the winter as pupae, the 

 moths from which came forth from May 27th to June 13th. 

 About one half of them were of the ordinary form, while the 

 other half was made up of the intensely dark banded and 

 pale banded examples in about equal proportions, but some 

 of the pale banded specimens had the blue-grey colour of 

 the band even lighter than any of the autumn emergence. 

 From the moths reared in September ova were obtained ; 



