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been rearing the species. Mr. Tugwell and Mr. South both remarked on the wings 

 of the specimen being fully developed, Mr. South adding that in Japan there were 

 two forms of the species, a domestic one and a wild one, and some one might have 

 been rearing the wild form. Mr. Tugwell, specimens of Epinephele tithonus, with three 

 distinct ocelli on each of the superior wings. Mr, Tutt remarked that he had recently 

 recorded this form, Mr. Frowhawk had noticed it at Chattenden, Mr. Carrington in 

 Essex, Mr. Hawes had received it from Dexon and Norfolk, Mr. Briggs had seen it at 

 Wandsworth and Wimbledon, Mr. C. G. Barrett said that although he had 

 examined large numbers of the species in Pembrokeshire he had never found any 

 specimens so strongly marked as were those of Mr. Tugwell. Mr. R. Adkin 

 exhibited species bred from larvae received from Forres, together with Southern 

 examples for comparison, and made remarks thereon ; he also exhibited a specimen 

 of Cabera pusaria, in which the first and central lines were very close together, a 

 feature regarded as indicating the form Cabera rotundaria, and some observations were 

 made relative to this last exhibit, reference being made by Mr. C. G. Barrett to the 

 series bred by Mr. Atmore, in which he had every intermediate form between the 

 two, one specimen being /wsar/a on the one side and rotundaria on the other. Mr. C. 

 Fenn exhibited Calymnia diffinis, varieties of Agrotis exclamationis, Dasypolia templi, a 

 very small dwarfed form of Melanippe fluctuata, and a long bred series of Cidaria 

 ntssata, and the three parent females, and remarked that all the ova were laid within 

 a few days of each other but there was an interval of seven weeks between the 

 emergence of the first and last specimens, while a portion of one brood was now 

 preparing to hibernate. Mr. T. R. Billups, a specimen of Deilephila capensis, one of 

 three said to have been captured at sea, 472 miles from land. Mr. C. A. Briggs two 

 varieties of Melitaa artemis. 



October 8th. — The President in the chair. Mr. Walter Smith of Teddington was 

 elected a member. Mr. Tugwell exhibited Agrotis agathina, and A. strigula, Southern 

 and J^orthern forms; also Noctiia castanea, from Perthshire, and the var. neglecta, from 

 the New Forest. Mr. Tugwell, on behalf of Mr. Boden, exhibited a specimen of 

 Prodenia littoralis, Boisd., bred from a Tomato, the pupa case was also shown. Mr. 

 South remarked that the species was fairly common in India. Mr. .lager, Calliiiiorpha 

 hera, and var. lutescens bred from ova, also Agrotis ripce, bred from larvae taken on the 

 the Essex coast, some of the specimens v.'ere very light. Mr. West, a variety of 

 Catocala nupta, taken at Streatham, having the inferior wings streaked with yellow. 

 Mr. H. J. Turner, Zygana melitoti, from the New Forest, taken this season, 

 Xylophasia polyodon, from the North, Hepialus velleda, from Lynesford, Kent, and the 

 North. Mr. A. Robinson a long and varied series of Nonagria cannce, taken by 

 himself and Mr. Bond in Norfolk. Mr. R. Adkin, Sesia mumformis, from the Isle of 

 Man and Cornwall, and remarked that those from the former locality appeared the 

 more robust and more densely clothed with scales than the Cornish specimens. Mr. 

 Adkin also exhibited a male and female specimen of a Tortrix bred from larvae, found 

 feeding amoug the needles of a shoot of Scotch fir that he had received from Tuam, 

 Co. Galway, and which had been described and figured from specimens reared in 

 1890 under the name of Tortrix donelana, by Mr. G. H. Carpenter (Scien. Proc. R. 

 Dublin Soc, Vol. VII, pi. 2), and read notes, in the course of which he mentioned 



