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-and secured a banded male, which paired with one of his lemon coloured 

 females, and a large number of ova were obtained. Strange to say the 

 imagines of this brood were exclusively banded forms, he having bred about 

 a hundred specimens without a single pure orange or lemon form amongst 

 them. The general idea is that were a banded male pairs with a pure coloured 

 female or vice versa, the result is types of both forms among the offspring, 

 but, the introduction of fresh blood in this case had certainly had a very 

 wonderful effect. Mr. Cripps showed a series of Bembidium concinnum from 

 Eainham, and Mr, Lewcock showed Anchomenus atratus, Pterostichus pici- 

 manu9 % P. inaqualis, Anthicus antherinus, and various other coleoptera. 



Living examples of Papilio machaon, S.fagi and others were exhibited on 

 the 10th June, by Mr. J. A. Clark, and the President brought up three 

 specimens of Timandra amafaria bred that day from hybernated larvae. A 

 specimen of the scarce Madqpa salicalis was presented to the Society's Cabinet 

 by the former gentleman. Mr. Pearson brought some fine examples of L. 

 argiolus, and mentioned having succeeded in obtaining the larvae of C. diluta 

 and D. oo at Chingford. 



At the following Meeting a very curious suffused form of the common 

 M. fiuctuata was shown by Mr. Huckett. Mr. Franklin had some abnormally 

 large A. prunaria. A living N. cucullina, and a series of bred A. mendica 

 were in Mr. Clark's box, while a row of the beautiful little 0. woeberana were 

 shown by Mr. Anderson. Mr. May showed various species of larvae includ- 

 ing A, pyramidea from the New Forest, from which locality he had also 

 secured many good species of Noctuse at sugar, though collecting during the 

 day was not very productive. Mr. Eussell had also visited this favourite 

 locality, and amongst other good species enumerated as having been observed 

 must be mentioned M. fuciformis, M. bombyliformis, E. dolabraria and N. 

 trepida. Mr. Eussell brought up for distribution amongst the members, some 

 hundreds of the pretty larvse of Bombyx neustria — he having found four 

 broods near Loughton — the species has been very scarce near London for 

 some years past. — Ernest Anderson, Secretary. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Preservation of Colours Dragonelies. — I have for some years 

 collected dragon-flies, and like our friend Mr. Mackay when I first commenced, 

 1 found some of the large specimens not only lost their colour but decomposed, 

 the following year I took the precaution of keeping them a day before killing 



