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no chance of pairing with a male of her own species. The supposed 

 h3'brid8 resembled the female parent, except that both orbicular and 

 reniform stigmata were very conspicuous, being pure white filled up 

 slightly with black, whereas in C. or they are usually inconspicuous and the 

 orbicular are sometimes wanting. None of the C. or bred had the 

 stigmata developed so fully as had the hybrids, which were most uniform 

 in this respect. Mr. F. J. Hanbury exhibited a specimen of Leucania 

 vitelUna, taken at Brockenhurst on August 34th, 1893, by Mrs. Hanbury, 

 and another taken by himself at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, on September 

 7th ; also an extraordinary Gonepteryx rhamni, showing red blotches at the 

 tips of the fore wings, taken by a gardener at Walthamstow, Essex. 

 Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a gynandrous Argynnis papliia recently taken 

 in the New Forest by Mr. Cardew. Mr. J. M. Adye exhibited a specimen 

 of Deilophila livornica recently caught at Christchurch, Hants. Mr. Elwes 

 exhibited and described two species of the genus (Eneis [Chionobas, Bdv.), 

 (E. beani and (E. alberta, from North America, which had not been 

 previously described, and stated that he had prepared, with Mr. Edwards's 

 assistance, a revision of this very difficult genus, which would be read at 

 the November meeting. Mr. Osbert Salvin communicated a paper entitled 

 " Description of a new genus and species {Baroyiia brevicornis) of Papilio- 

 7iid(B from Mexico," and exhibited both sexes. Dr. Sharp read a paper 

 entitled " On the Cost and Value of Insect Collections." Mr. W. F. H. 

 Blandford, Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Jacoby, Mr. Waterhouse, and the Presi- 

 dent took part in the discussion which ensued. Professor Auguste Forel 

 communicated a paper entitled " Formicides de I'Antille St. Vincent, 

 recoltees par Mons. H. H. Smith." Mr. W. F. H. Blandford read a paper 

 entitled •' Description of a New Subfamily of the Scolytidce." The Presi- 

 dent, Mr. Jacoby, and Mr. Waterhouse took part in the discussion which 

 ensued. 



October 18th.— Remj John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in 

 the chair. Professor C. H. Tyler Townsend, of the Institute of Jamaica, 

 Kingston, Jamaica, was elected a Fellow of the Society. Mr. R. Adkin 

 exhibited two Leucania vitelUna and one L. extranea, taken by Mr. B. W. 

 Adkin in the Scilly Islands, in August, 1893. Mr. R. South exhibited a 

 specimen of Polyommatus bceticus, and a number of varieties of Chryso- 

 plianus phlceas, captured in Kent, in September last, by Mr. Sabine; also 

 a curious variety of Argynnis euphrosyne, taken in Lancashire in May, 

 1893, by Mr. T. Baynes ; a pallid variety of Vanessa urticce, taken by 

 Mr. W. E. Cox in Monmouthshire, in July, 1893; and a Triphatia 

 jnonuba, the right wings of which were typical, and the left wings 

 resembled the variety innuba, caught at sugar, in Dovedale, Derbyshire, 

 by Mr. Blagg, in July, 1893. Mr. G. H. Verrall exhibited a specimen of 

 the Tsetse {Glossina morsitans), and also one of the common European allied 

 species {Stomoxys calcitrans). He also exhibited a specimen of HcRinatobia 

 serrata, Dsv., which he stated was not uncommon on cattle in England, 

 but believed to be harmless ; while in North America the dreaded " horn- 

 tly " is said to be the same species. Mr. Elwes exhibited a larva which he 

 had found three days previously under stones on a moraine, apparently quite 

 destitute of vegetation, in the Austrian Tyrol, at an elevation of about 7000 ft. 

 He remarked on the number of Alpine butterflies, some of them in fresh 



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