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3- Species struggling to settle in the Margate district. 

 Two specimens of E. lichenca and five specimens of Lencania 

 vitellina. A female of the latter species laid a dozen eggs, 

 but up to the present these have not hatched. Together 

 with Lencania alhipunda and Heliothis armigera, all were 

 captured on the 21st and 22nd of September, 1900, at sugar. 



Mr. H. Moore exhihiied ^ series oi Papilio macliaon, from 

 Greece, light varieties ; India, large dark forms taken at an 

 altitude of 9000 feet at Kulu ; Amur, small dark-veined 

 variety; Japan, var. hippocrates, etc. 2. A series of P. xuth^is, 

 from China and Japan. 



Mr. A. Harrison exhibited long and varied series of A'a7?^//m 

 aurago, Scopelosoma satelliiin, and Miselia oxyacanthcE with v. 

 capncina, all taken at sugar at Chingford in October this 

 year. 



Mr. Main exhibited two specimens ofColias ednsawdj:. helice, 

 bred from ova laid by a female helice taken at Hanwell. 

 They emerged in October. 



Mr. Mera exhibited several very dark varieties oi Abraxas 

 grossulariata, bred and captured at Forest Gate, and also 

 from Aberdeen. He also exhibited a specimen of Cceno- 

 nymplia pamphihis, having the under surface of the left hind- 

 wing of the colour of the upper wing. 



Rev. J. E. Tarbat exhibited Lepidoptera : — (i) a very dark 

 specimen of the banded form of Hybcrnia defoliaria (bred). 

 (2) Stauropus fagi, female, bred August i8th, 1900, from 

 spring ova. 



Birds eggs : — (i) Blackbird {Tnrdus merida), two pale blue 

 varieties; (2) Chaffinch {FringiUaccclcbs), five palebluevarieties 

 made up of two different clutches taken in two successive 

 years in same garden at Reading, second year's smaller 

 than first ; (3) Bullfinch fPyrrhnlaetiropcEa),fiye white varieties 

 made up out of different clutches taken two successive years 

 in the same hedge at Weybridge. (4) Blackheaded gull 

 {Lams ridibundus), four specimens of a pale blue variety, 

 three with more or less markings, and one without markings. 

 All from Scoulton Mere, Norfolk. 



Mr. R. Armstrong Adkin exhibited British land-shells, 

 viz. a series of Helix capcraia taken near Otford, Kent, on 

 Sunday last, which showed much variation for one locality. 

 K\so oi Helix virgata, from various localities, showing con- 

 siderable variation, some of a horn-colour, with very faint 

 bands, from Greenwich Marshes, being especiall}' remark- 

 able. 



Mr. S. W. Kemp exhibited a x'ariety of Epinephclc iaiiim , 



