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fascia reduced to a triangle on the costa with its apex just beyond the discal spot, 

 an enlarged subterminal fascia, darker than usual hindwings and all other markings 

 less well defined. 



Simson, E. C. — Examples of phaeism, usually due to aberration, sometimes to 

 geographical variation. 



Skinner, B. — A series of Agrochola haemalidea Dup. bred from collected larvae. 

 Sussex, vi.1993; also photographs of larvae, pupae and live adults. Haciena perplexa 

 capsophila Dup. from larvae, Inisheer, Aran Islands, viii.1992; Standfussiana lucernea 

 L. from Folkestone, 7.vii.l993; Meganola singula D.&S., Silchester, Hants, 2.vii.l993 

 and Agrotis exclamationis L. ab. ostrovichi Diosz. from Addington, Surrey, 16. vi.1993 

 (orbicular of forewing absent). 



Skinner, B. & Elliott, B. — Odonlognophos dumeiaia Treits. from larvae 

 collected in the Burren, Co. Clare in v. 1993; photographs of all stages were exhibited, 

 also of a parasite. 



Sterling, M. & P. — Hippotion celerio L. found in a greenhouse in Coombe 

 Keynes, Dorset, 14.x. 1993 by Mr A. Johnson. Pelosia obtusa H.-S. from Norfolk, 

 28.vii.1993 and Euxoa cursoria Hufn., Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, 28.vii.1993. The 

 first British specimen of Pardasena virgulana Mab. (Plate II, Fig. 3), a tropical African 

 species, taken at light, Thorpe-le-Soken, 27. ix. 1992. 



Townsend, M. — Aplocera efformata Guen. ab. with first, third and fourth cross 

 lines absent, Oxford, 1 1 .viii. 1993; Chloroclysta miata L. two specimens with pinkish- 

 brown streaks, Kirkhill Forest, Aberdeenshire, x.1986; Biston betularia L., Harpenden. 

 Herts., 10.vii.1991, ab. with forewings typical and hindwings intermediate; Orthosia 

 gracilis D.&S. from Newtown, Powys, iv.1988, both pinkish and dark forms with 

 especially dark hindwings from lowland beside the River Severn where Myrica is 

 absent. An asymmetrical ab. of Orthosia cruda D.&S.; the first county record of 

 Spargania luctuata D. & S. taken at Harpenden, 3 1 .v. 1992 and Rhyacia simulans Hufn. 

 bred from female taken at Harpenden, 8.ix.l992, the only imago from 200 first-instar 

 larvae, the larva fed on false oat grass when small, on dandelion in final instar. 



Waring, P., on behalf of Butterfly Conservation and the Joint Committee for 

 the Conservation of British Invertebrates. — A display explaining the national survey 

 of Cossus cossus L., and requesting post- 1979 records. Display included photograph 

 of larva, also samples of worked timber, an extruded pupal case and an up-to-date 

 distribution map from the forthcoming atlas of the rarer macro-moths of Great Britain. 



Warne, B. — A melanic Drymonia ruficornis Hufn. from Binstead, I.O.W., 

 15. iv. 1992; Callistege mi Clerck, Ashey, I.o.W., 26.V.1993, ab. An ab. with pale 

 forewings and dark yellow hindwings of Pseudopanthera macularia L.. Havenstrect. 

 I.o.W. 



West, B. K.—Ligdia adustata D.&S. ab. plumbea Cockayne (Plate II, Fig, 2) 

 from Brockenhurst, Hants, 29. v. 1987, only the second recorded specimen: from 

 Dartford, Kent: Crocallis elinguaria L. ab. obviaria Ljungdahl. 22.vii.1977 and ab. 

 nigrolineata Lempke, 4. viii. 1988; Ennomos alniaria L. ab. concolor Lempke, 

 18.ix.1985 and ab. destrigaria Cockayne, 21. viii. 1990, apparently the second recorded 

 specimen; Ennomos fuscantaria Haw. ab.juncta Wize, 9.ix. 1988 and ab. per/:. 

 Rebel, 4.ix.l988. 



Winter, P.— From North-east Yorkshire (VC62) the first vice-county record o( 

 Eupithecia abietaria Goeze, North York Moors, 30. vi.1993. From Soutl 

 Yorkshire (VC61) Eupithecia pimpinellata Hiibn., bred from larva on Pimpinella 

 saxifraga L. at Muston, 21. ix. 1992; a bilateral gynandromorph of Agrotis 

 exclamationis L. (Plate II, Fig. 13), Muston, 30. vi.1993; Lygephila pastinum Treits.. 

 Muston; Rhyacia simulans Hufn. and Apamea furva D.&S.. Flamborough, 



