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thickness of the shell. Mr. Battley also gave a short account of the life-history 

 of the tortoise. 



November 1st. — In the absence of both President and Vice-President, Mr. 

 Goldthwaite was elected in the chair. 



Mr. Hanes exhibited a very long and fine series of L. testacea. Mr. 

 Clark had a very interesting box containing four bred specimens of Reticulata, 

 also two specimens of the Lewis form of B. conspersa and a very fine variety 

 of Carpophaga. Mr. Goldthwaite a very fine variety of A. grossulariata, 

 being suffused with cream colour, and having very few dark markings, also 

 A. paphia and var, Valezina, and a female A. paphia having the right fore- 

 wing of a light colour. 



Mr. Hanes had been to the New Forest and had found species in the day- 

 time very scarce, but at sugar had taken about 13 species, he had also noticed 

 a very large number of robins, in fact they seemed all over the forest. He 

 had also been collecting in the North of London and had taken several Pen- 

 nana, but exceedingly few Defoliaria. Mr. Ellis also informed the members 

 that he had seen a very large number of robins. — J. BtjoSell and G. A. 

 Lewcock, Hon. Sees. 



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SOCIETY. 



October 2otk, 1888.— John T. Carrington, Esq., E.L.S., Vice-President in 

 the chair. Mr. E. A. Atmore, of King's Lynn, was elected a member. 

 Mr. C. A. Briggs exhibited banded and other forms of Gnophos obscuraria. 

 Mr. Wellman on behalf of Mr. A. E. Hall, interesting forms of Lycana 

 icarus. Mr. Goldthwaite, a pretty form of Triphcena orbona (subsequa), 

 streaked and spotted forms of Argynnis paphia and the variety Valezina. 

 Mr. Oldham a pale form of Chaerocampa porcelhis, a fine variety of Argynnis 

 euphrosyne, also species of Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Coleoptera, 

 among the latter being a fine series of Calosoma inquisitor, from Epping 

 Forest. Mr. J. M. Adye, bleached varieties of Epinepliele janira, a specimen 

 of E. kyperanthas, the underside having no rings, a melanic form of Fidonia 

 atomaria, and a fine varied series of Anchocelis lunosa. Mr. Hawes, living 

 larvae of Polyommatus plilaas. Mr. Tutt on behalf of Mr. P. Russ, of Sligo, 

 a number of species of Agrotidse: a fine series of Epunda lutulenta, showing 

 two very characteristic phases of variation ; one of a steely grey colour 

 covered with white scales with a distinct band, the females being darker than 

 the males ; the other very black in ground colour with the hind-wings white, 

 the females being darker with the anterior and posterior wings quite black. 

 Mr. Tutt remarked that the pale Continental form did not seem to occur in 



