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a cold season, and which were abandoned by the parent 

 bird. 



g. Common bunting {Emberiza miliaria), two clutches 

 from Beachy Head, showing great extremes in size, shape, 

 ground colour, and intensity of markings between the 

 clutches. 



Mr. Henry J. Turner exhibited a series of some three 

 dozen specimens of Callimorpha hera, taken by himself in 

 the neighbourhood of Dawlish in mid August, igoo. The 

 ground colour of the hind wings exhibited an uninterrupted 

 gradation between the rich red of the type through the 

 terra-cotta form to the brilliant yellow of the form known 

 as var. lutescens. About one half were of the type form. 

 The markings of all the specimens were as uniform as if 

 produced by a stencil plate. He also exhibited a very long 

 and varied series of Bryophila ninralis (glandifera) from the 

 same neighbourhood, taken on, or bred from pupae from, a 

 single wall. The series was a very remarkable one, in that 

 it contained but a few isolated examples of forms which are 

 typical of eastern localities like Freshwater, Eastbourne, or 

 Folkestone. A considerable proportion were of a rich 

 yellow-brown ground colour ; the black markings of most 

 were conspicuous and even intensified. In all, the hind wings 

 were dark and in some very dark, and a number of examples 

 of a deep green were very noticeable. A few specimens 

 were very small, and were bred late in September or in the 

 beginning of October. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of Bryophila muralis to 

 compare with Mr. Turner's exhibit, and mainly composed of 

 forms typical of Eastbourne, Folkestone, Brighton, Poole, 

 Co. Cork, Scilly Isles ; the form known as impar from 

 Cambridge. 



Mr. Colthrup exhibited a series of Bryophila muralis from 

 Folkestone, also to compare with Mr. Turner's exhibit, and 

 contributed the following note : 



"The specimens I exhibit came from Eastbourne, Brighton, 

 and Isle of Wight, with four specimens from Dawlish this 

 year, and were mostly bred. They included a black variety 

 with white ground colour, a yellow-pink variety (bred), a 

 very dark green variet}', and a number of the varities suffusa 

 (Tutt) and par (Hiibn.). The black variety has a white spot 

 at the base of the fore-wing, near the hind margin, in the 

 place of the usual mark, which resembles a clover leaf. 



•' What struck me most was the large percentage of imagines 

 I had emerge, viz. go per cent., whereas last year a friend 



