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tyro as to whether they were all the same species. Sandown is noted 
for its aberrations of this species. Similar forms are no doubt to be 
got in other localities if worked as systematically as this locality. Mr. 
Kaye had a drawer of Nonagrias, with specimens of Tapinostola extrema 
and Nonayria sparganti, the latter from the Dover district. Ento- 
mologists in want of the latter species should pay attention to the 
yellow flag, and if this were done we should then probably hear of the 
insect becoming more generally distributed than it at present appears 
to be. There were many other interesting exhibits of British lepid- 
optera, all of which there is not space here even to notice. The 
magnificent series of Hpunda lutulenta, exhibited by the Rey. C. R.N. 
Burrows, must, however, be mentioned. Of the exotic lepidoptera 
there was a fine show. Mr. E. M. Dadd contributed to these with 
some fine Catocalas and Vanessids. Amongst the latter was a long 
series of Huvanessa antiopa from Europe and North America. Some 
of the American specimens had the border much suffused, and taken 
generally they had distinctly darker margins. Amongst the Catocalas, 
the United States Catocala cara and C. amatrix, bred, were specially 
fine. C. electa, also, which comes very close to our C. nupta, was 
amongst a lot of others. Mr. Stanley Edwards gave a splendid exhibit 
of Papilios, Ornithopteras, Charaxes, &c. P. adamantius was amongst 
many other fine things. The Hestias also were particularly good, but 
the most remarkable mimic of these unpalatable insects was absent ; 
we refer to P. idaeoides, which so closely resembles Hestia idaea. P. 
memnon, with a large number of polymorphic ? s, was well illustrated. 
A magnificent specimen of Morpho cisseis, from Guatemala, and a speci- 
men of P. gundlachianus, from Cuba, also figured in this fine exhibit. 
The writer, in exhibiting foreign Sphingidae, had practically the field 
to himself. Six drawers were shown, four of which contained examples 
of the large genus Choerocampa. Amongst the others Cizara ardeniae, 
bred from Brisbane, Queensland, was particularly noteworthy, speci- 
mens of this unique-looking Sphingid being extremely rare in collections. 
Fine Langia zenzeroides, Angonya testacea, and a series of Amphonyx 
antaeas, taken by the exhibitor himself at jasmine blossoms, were also 
noteworthy. Messrs. Watkins and Doncaster had lent four cabinet 
drawers of exotic lepidoptera, and umongst these were some remark- 
ably interesting insects. Two drawers contained examples of butter- 
flies and moths mimicking each other. Amongst some of these were 
noted Sanyala gloriosa, a Geometrid moth, mimicked by H’resia castilia, 
a Nymphalid butterfly ; Pericopis leucophaea, a Uypsid moth, 
mimicked by Didonis aganisa, a Nymphalid butterfly. Papilio merope, 
which is only protected in the @ sex, was well shown, the ? closely 
resembling Amauris niavius. Another still more interesting “pair” 
were Hpicopeta polydora, a moth so closely resembling Papilio rhetenor. 
Of Coleoptera the exhibits were few but excellent. Mr. HE. A. 
Newbery showed a cabinet drawer containing nearly all the British 
species of the family Bembidiidae and Hydrodephaya, and formed a very 
interesting exhibit. Mr. Clark had some eases of exotic coleoptera, in 
which were to be found many of the most extraordinary of the world’s 
coleoptera. Amongst these were Dynastes hercules, the giant Dominican 
beetle, Goliathus druryi, Mormolyce phyllodes and many others. Of the 
Diptera, Messrs. F. B. Jennings and H. A. Sauzé had lent some of 
their fine specimens. The former exhibitor had types of the most 
