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belonging to the heracliana group, which cannot be identified 

 as belonging to any of our known British species. The whole 

 from the neighbourhood of Deal, and taken in the early part 

 of August, 1887. 



Mr. H. T. Dobson exhibited Thecla quercus, L., Selenia 

 tetralunaria, Hufn., and Eugonia erosaria, Bork, all from 

 larvae obtained in the New Forest. 



Mr. H. E. Barren exhibited a large specimen of Polyom- 

 matus phlceaS) L., with unusually broad border to fore wings. 



Mr. Tugwell exhibited Boarmia abietaria, Hb., bred from 

 larvae beaten out of yew, June 1st, 1887 ; the first imago 

 emerging July 2nd, the last August 4th. 



Mr. E. Sabine exhibited Lyccena icarus, Rott., males of 

 varying blue tints, blue females, and a dwarf male barely 

 jths of an inch in span, underside with confluent spots, and 

 an underside of male, with left wings normal and right wings 

 of the obsolete type ; also males of L. bellargus, Rott., of 

 various shades of colour, and females more or less blue ; a fine 

 series of probable hybrids, male and female, between icarus 

 and bellargus ; also forms and varieties of L. corydon, Fb., 

 dwarfed, deep blue, grey, and other shades of the male, 

 brown, blue, and other females, undersides of the males of the 

 obsolete type, and fine examples of the streaked form. Mr. 

 Sabine stated that, with the exception of the dwarfed icarus, 

 all the specimens shown were taken during the season in one 

 locality in Kent. 



SEPTEMBER %th, 1887. 

 T. R. BlLLUPS, Esq., F.E.S., in the chair. 



Mr. J. T. Williams exhibited a living specimen of Sphinx 

 convolvuli, L., taken that morning on his bed-room window at 

 Foot's Cray, Kent, and asked whether the species deposited 

 its eggs in the autumn or following spring, as he had last year 

 tried to obtain ova, but without success, and he knew of no 

 records of the larva having ever been found in England. 



Mr. J. T. Carrington, in reply, said that he did not 

 remember hearing of the capture of any hybernated specimens 



