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him in the « Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' Oct. 1892, pp. 250—253. 

 Mr. McLachlan stated that another specimen of this species had been 

 caught about the same date in Claygate Lane, near Surbiton, by Mr. 

 Edward Saunders, who discovered that it was parasitic on a homopterous 

 insect of the genus Liburnia, and had also described it in the Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 pp. 249—250. 



Mr. J. M. Adye exhibited, for Mr. McRae, a large collection of Colias 

 edusa, C. edusa var. helice, and C. hyale, all taken in the course of five 

 days' collecting in the neighbourhood of Bournemouth and Christchurch, 

 Hants. There were twenty-six specimens of var. helice, some of which were 

 remarkable both in size and colour. He stated that Mr. McRae estimated 

 the proportion of the variety helice to the type of the female as one in fifty. 

 Mr. Adye also exhibited two specimens of Deiopeia pulchella, recently 

 taken near Christchurch. The Chairman, Mr. Haubury, Mr. Jenner Weir, 

 and Mr. Merrifield commented on the interesting nature of the exhibition, 

 and on the recent extraordinary abundance of C. edusa and the var. helice, 

 which was probably not exceeded in 1877. 



Mr. Dallas Beeching exhibited four specimens of Plusia moneta, lately 

 taken in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells. 



Mr. Gervase F. Mathew sent for exhibition two specimens of Plusia 

 moneta and their cocoons, which were found at Frinsted, Kent, on the 

 3rd September last. It was stated that Mr. Mathew had found seven 

 cocoons on the under side of the leaves of monkshood, but that the imagos 

 had already emerged from five of them. 



Mr. Rye exhibited a specimen of Zygcena filipendula var. chrysanthemi, 

 and two varieties of Arctia villica, taken at Lancing, Sussex ; also dwarf 

 specimens of Euchloe cardamines from Wimbledon ; a variety of Thecla 

 rubi from Bournemouth ; and varieties of Coccinella ocellata aud C. oblongo- 

 guttata from Oxshott. 



Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited specimens of Argynnis pales var. isis, and 

 var. arsilache, the females of which showed a tendency to melanism, 

 recently taken at Campfer, in the Upper Engadine ; also melanic forms of 

 Erebia melampus, and a specimen of Erebia ?ierine, taken at Bormio, at the 

 foot of the Stelvio Pass. 



Mr. Elwes exhibited specimens of typical Erebia melas, taken by 

 himself at Campiglio, in the Western Tyrol, on the 25th July last, at an 

 elevation of 7000 feet; also specimens of the same species from Hungary, 

 Greece, and the Eastern and Central Pyrenees. He stated that the sup- 

 posed absence of this species from the Alps, which had seemed to be such 

 a curious fact in geographical distribution, had been first disproved by Mrs. 

 Nicholl, who discovered it at Campiglio two years ago. He also exhibited 

 fresh specimens of Erebia nerine, taken at Riva, on the lake of Garda, 

 at an elevation of about 500 feet ; also specimens of the same species, 



