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A. Lathonia was taken by Captain Russell ou two occasions in August, 1859; on 

 the first occasion five specimens; on the second two, in a meadow-field on the S.W. 

 side of a wood belonging to Mr. T. P. Hitchcock, at Lavenham, Suffolk. The insects 

 were shown, shortly after their capture, and whilst yet limp and not set out, to the 

 late Professor Henslow, whose living of Hitcham was an adjoining parish to Monk's 

 Eleigh : the Professor told him they were specimens of A. Lathonia, and added that he 

 did not regard them as indigenous, but thought they must have been blown over from 

 the Continent. 



The specimen of Eulepia grammica was taken at the same place as C. Hera, on 

 the occasion of Captain Russell's second visit to that spot, on the 28th of July, 1859. 

 It was disturbed by a lighted fusee falling among some long grass; it flew with 

 amazing rapidity for a few yards and then suddenly disappeared : all efforts to dis- 

 cover it were unavailing, and the search was abandoned, when the insect was again 

 disturbed by a stone casually thrown at a butterfly sitting on a neighbouring flower, 

 when Captain Russell succeeded in securing it in his net. 



The variety of Vanessa Urticoe was captured by Captain Russell, flying in a garden 

 at Waltisham, Suffolk. The specimen was somewhat crippled, and he had at first 

 thought it a hybrid between V. Urticae and V. Antiopa. 



The specimen of Anesychia Echiella, W. V. (A. bipunctella, F.), which was also 

 placed amongst the " Reputed British Species " in Mr. Doubleday's List, was 

 taken by Captain Russell in a chalk-pit at Chelsworth, Suffolk, in the summer of 

 1861. 



The specimen of Cabera was bred from the larva, and the reason for its exhibi- 

 tion was, that out of sixteen larvae precisely similar in appearance, and all fed upon 

 alder, fifteen produced insects of the form known as Cabera pusaria, whilst the six- 

 teenth produced the exhibited specimen, which was of the form known as C. rotun- 

 daria. 



Mr. Rye exhibited specimens of Lathrobium geminum, Kraatz, and read the fol- 

 lowing notes on the characters which distinguish it from the allied species : — 



" Lathrobium geminum, Kraatz (= L. elongatum, Gyll.) Hitherto confounded in 

 our collections with L. elongatum, Linn.), and apparently almost as common. 



" L. brunnipes, the first of the larger species, apart from its very distinct characters 

 underneath in both sexes, is at once to be distinguished by its entirely black upper 

 surface, all the others near it in size having the elytra more or less barred on the api- 

 cal half with red or reddish brown ; and although this colour is sometimes suffused all 

 over the elytron, it is never so dark as in L. brunnipes. 



" The next species, L. elongatum, Linn., most closely resembles L. geminum in 

 colour, punctuation and 6ize; the only character on the upper side being the relative 

 length and width of the thorax and elytra. 



" In L. elongatum, Linn., the thorax is decidedly narrower than, and not so long 

 as, the elytra, whereas in L. geminum it is very nearly, if not quite, as wide and long 

 as the elytra, imparting a broader and more robust look to the insect. 



" It is, however, underneath that the chief differences are to be found, as usual, in 

 this genus. 



"The male L. elongatum, Linn., has on the middle of the lower surface of the 

 penultimate segment of the abdomen a shallow longitudinal fovea, widening behind, 

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