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cinctus, Ahr., with elytra resembling in form those of the male, taken in 

 Wicken Fen in August last. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited a specimen of Mellinla ocellaris recently taken near 

 Southend, together with a specimen of M. gilvago for comparison ; also 

 four specimens of Argyresthia atmoriella, taken by Mr. Atmore last June, 

 at Lynn, Norfolk. Mr. Tutt also exhibited a long series of a Melampias 

 which he had captured at Le Lautaret, in the Dauphine Alps, at an 

 elevation of 7000 to 8000 feet. He observed that the specimens exhibited 

 were peculiar in some important particulars, combining some of the 

 characteristics of Erebia (Melampias) melampus and M. pharte. His 

 attention had been first drawn to this form by some fine examples captured 

 by Dr. Chapman and himself on Mont de la Saxe in 1895. Compared 

 with the Tyrolean examples of M. melampus, this form showed a tendency 

 to a lengthening of the fore wings, and to an obsolescence of the black 

 dots, thus approaching M. pharte, but the females presented none of the 

 typical characters of the female of M. pharte. On the whole, he felt 

 satisfied that the Mont de la Saxe specimens were a form of M. melampus. 

 Mr. Elwes observed that though all the continental butterflies had been so 

 long studied by European entomologists, he did not think the form 

 exhibited by Mr. Tutt had been hitherto noticed. He agreed in the 

 conclusion at which he had arrived. 



Mr. E. Ernest Green exhibited a typical specimen of Ephyra omicron- 

 aria, together with what he believed to be a remarkable melanic variety 

 of the same species, taken by Dr. Dudley Wright at Pegwell Bay, near 

 Ramsgate, in September last. Some of the Fellows present, after an 

 examination of the specimen, expressed an opinion that it was a variety 

 of an Acidalia, and not of Ephyra omicronaria. 



Mr. Goss stated that Mr. Harry Fisher, the botanist to the Jackson- 

 Harmsworth expedition, had returned to England, He hoped that he 

 would have been present at the meeting, to exhibit a few minute Diptera 

 and other insects which he had collected in Franz Josef Land. Mr. 

 McLachlan made some remarks on insects and flowers in high latitudes, 

 and Mr. Elwes, Sir George Hampson, and Professor Meldola also com- 

 mented on the subject. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



Nov. 18th, 1896.— Prof. Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



Messrs. Malcolm Burr, G. H. Gale, and A. E. Wileman, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited a series of the ochreous form of Tephrosia bistortata, 

 Goetze, known as ab. abietaria, Haw., captured by Mr. Mason, near 

 Clevedon, Somerset; and second broods of the same species (ab. consonaria, 

 St.), bred from ova laid by the first-mentioued specimens. He also 

 exhibited a series of Tephrosia crepuscular ia, taken at Doncaster; a variety 



