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posed work and the beauty of the plates. Mr. Ernest Green, 
who was present, made some remarks in acknowledgment. 
Mr. Stevens exhibited two larvae, supposed to be those of a 
species of Anohium^ which had been damaging oil paintings 
in his possession ; also two specimens of a luminous species 
of Pyrophorus, which he had received alive from the West 
Indies. 
Mr. Adkin exhibited a portion of a collection of Lepidoptera 
made in Hoy, Orkney, in 1895, including the following 
species, viz., Agrotis vestigialis, A. triticif and A. cursoria, not 
previously recorded from Orkney ; Nemeophila plantaginisj 
having the usual yellow ground-colour of the hindwings 
replaced by red in many of the females ; Hepialus humuli, 
males of the ordinary white form, bearing no resemblance to 
the Unst (Shetland) form, var. Jiethlandica ; TrijjhoRna comes^ 
all very dark, the fore wings almost black, the yellow of the 
hindwings of many of the specimens much obscured by 
blackish scales ; Noctua /estiva, showing forms of variation 
ranging between the pale southern and the dark conflua 
forms ; Epunda lutulenta, some almost uniformly black, 
others pale grey with dark markings ; Tceniocampa gothica, 
including var. gotUcina ; Hadena adusta^ one almost black, 
others much variegated ; TJiera juniper ata, many having the 
central fascia and apical streak very dark brown ; and 
Hypsipetes sordidata, varying from blackish-brown to pale 
green. Mr. Barrett, Mr. McLachlan, and the Chairman 
made some remarks on the collection. 
Mr. Tutt exhibited a series of Emydia cribrum var. Candida, 
and read the following notes on the subject:— "It will, 
perhaps, be remembered by some of the Fellows that I 
exhibited and read notes on some specimens of Emydia 
cribrum var. Candida, which were captured by Dr. Chapman 
and myself in Piedmont, in August, 1894, in the neighbour- 
hood of Cogne and Courmayeur. In May last (1895) Mr. 
Merrifield, whilst travelling in Northern Italy, captured a 
female of the same form, and this, laying a batch of eggs, he 
forwarded with the latter to me. When they hatched, as 
they did shortly afterwards — the beautiful bead-Uke eggs going 
through a series of colour changes from yellow to leaden, or 
