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Warrington. Mr. South remarked breeding one similar, from larvae 
received from Rotherham (Yorks) ; Mr. Forrester, Bombyx callu?i(B 
from Perth, Mr. Barrett remarking that this form took two years to 
complete its metamorphoses, hybernating as a pupa in the second year. 
Mr. Barker remarked on taking larvae at Folkestone which pupated 
this autumn, Mr. Tutt referring to a case in the Ent. Record^ a7ite^ 
ii., p. 1 86; Mr. ] oy, Ept'nephe/e hyperanthus vars, ; Mr. Oldham, vars. of 
Orrhodia spadicea and LyccBna alexis^ also Apamea ophiogram?na from 
Epping; Mr. Tugwell, a series of dark Melanippe galiata from Hudders- 
field, and paler ones from southern localities. He also made some most 
interesting remarks re pupae being attacked by a fungus ; Mr. S. 
Edwards exhibited Mofpho anascibia and several Papilios. Mr. Adkin 
exhibited again his two specimens of Tortrix bred from pine, and Mr. C. 
G. Barrett, a typical specimen of T. steineriana. Mr. Tutt exhibited a 
series of specimens of Tortrix steineria7ia var. dohr7tia7ia.^ the $ ’s show- 
ing the usual unicolorous character of the S ' ’s of this peculiar group, 
the $ ’s being very concave on the costa, and varying from almost 
unicolorous to a well-developed central band. He also exhibited 
specimens of T. vibur7iia7ia {vibur7ia7ia) from Darlington and Armagh, 
the (^’s of the typical dark coloration, the $ ’s well banded; also speci- 
mens of typical Tortrix paleaTia both sexes, and males of the inter- 
mediate and provisionally-named teucriaTia. Specimens of the marsh 
species (?), probably the asphodila7ia of H.-S., which is supposed to be 
synonymous with u7iicolorana.^ Dup., were also exhibited. These speci- 
mens were from the Essex marshes. Mr. Tutt also remarked that Mr. 
Fenn and himself had devoted a great deal of time to T paleaTia and T. 
teucriana at Folkestone in 1890, and that, distinct as were the $ ’s 
generally, the $ ’s showed every possible gradation between the 
yellowest paleaTia and the darkest teucriaTia^ although nothing quite so 
dark as the moorland viburniana were observed. The females, how- 
ever, were very distinct, and the characteristic concave costa was fairly 
well shown, and he suggested that teucriana was quite intermediate 
between viburniana and paleana. With regard to the pine-feeding 
species from Ireland, it was probable that in time all these forms might 
be telescoped into viburniana., but in the present condition of our 
knowledge and the excessively small amount of material London ento- 
mologists had to go on, too many names were better than too few, and 
that it would be quite time to sink the names when more of the 
different species were known, certainly it was unwise to sink the Irish 
species into viburniana in the present condition of our knowledge. 
Thursday^ November 26th, 1891. — Mr. Cooper exhibited five very 
fine varieties of Arctia caia var. lutescens, the hind wings having the 
norm.al red replaced by yellow ; all the specimens were more or less 
asymmetrical in the markings and one had the fringe of the hind wings 
very dark. Mr. Carrington stated that he had lately examined the 
series of A. caia in the late Mr. Bond’s collection, and of 40 specimens 
6 had dark antennae, i had buff, and the rest light; but, strange to say, 
the lightest specimen in the series had dark antennae, whilst the darkest 
specimen had them light. Mr. South exhibited a series of Liparis 
monacha var. eremita from larvae from the Forest of Fontainebleau. 
Mr. Fenn remarked that a well-known British lepidopterist had suc- 
ceeded, by a careful selection of parents, in producing a race almost 
