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W. G. Pearce, a larj^e case of !Iniu idjiJiila ahnijitarid, either collected 
at Holloway or bred from ova obtained from captured insects, showing 
the ordinary light forms, series of very dark hrowm forms, and series 
of intermediate forms, with the dark black band showing through the 
dark brown ground colour of the wings ; one female possessed one <? 
and one $ antenna. 
British Cor\ud.®. — Mr. Stanley Austin read a paper on the 
“ British Corvidie,” which was illustrated by a fine exhibit of eggs 
on the part of Mr. W. ]\I. Bayne. 
Feb. 15th, 189H.— Abnormal buckthorn leaves. —]\Ir. S. J. Bell 
exhibited a buckthorn twig with green, yellow and parti-coloured leaves 
of various abnormal shapes. 
Enodia hyperanthus, var. —Mr. Routledge, a specimen of this 
insect from Hayton Moss, Cumberland, with a distinct pale band on 
undersides of hind-wings, approaching that on ( 'oenonyinjtha arcanio. 
New Locality for Hydrilla palustris. — Two females of this 
insect Avere exhibited by Mr. Routledge that had been taken when 
hying over grass at 5 p.m., on Orton IMoss, near Carlisle, on May 
hOth and .Tune 12th. This now locality excited much remark. The 
specimens hitherto recorded from the Fens and Broads have all been ^ . 
Coalescence oe spots on wings of Anthrocera filipendulae.— 
^Ir. Tutt, several A. jHipendiiJac bred from a 5 with conhuent spots. 
Numbering the upper and loAver basal sfiots as 1 and 2, upper and 
lower intermediate spots 8 and 1, and up]ier and lower hinder spots 5 
and G, there n as a marked tendency in the specimens for spots 2 and 1 
to run together, less for 8 and 5. It was rarer still for 1 and 8 to 
join. There Avas in nearly oA’ery case a space hetAveen 4 and G. No. 5 
spot has a tendency to run hack. 
Woon-BORING BEETLES RESISTING AVATER.- IRr. BouistllOrpe, J'oillirlls 
lands and ll/ilasics anyastatas, both Avood-boilng beetles, found in 
posts coA'ered by .sea-Avater at high tide. They Avere from Bourne¬ 
mouth, taken in December, 1897. Probably the insect Avas in the 
wood before it Avas placed in its present position. 
SuRVIA'AL OF PUP/E AFTER IMMERSION IN AVATER.- — Ml’. BaCOt annOUllCed 
the conclusion of his experiment Avith the pupa* of ( 'hacyocaaijia cljmior, 
one of Avliich aa'rs still aliA'e after having been under Avater for 28 days. 
Paper.— Mr. L. B. Prout read a paper “ On some Heredity I'lxperi- 
ments with Cormia fcn-ayata, Linn.” 
^larch 1st, 1898.— Coleoptera from Oxford. —Mr. H. Ileasler 
exhibited a series of ('assojuts fcrniynicain, taken last NoA’eniher by l\Ir. 
Lambert, near Oxford, in a decayed black poplar. 
Failure to breed Pachetra leucophoea. — Cajit. Thompson, G 
preserved larvie exhibited on behalf of ]\Ir. .Ino. Gardner, of Hartle¬ 
pool, Avho obtained the ova from a 5 taken by Capt. Vipan, in I\ent. 
I’lic larvie did Avell until the turn of the year upon Aarious grasses, 
and then began to refuse food, and to die ofl. 'I’lie larva^ shoAvn Avere 
presei’A’cd after they had died. 
Complete life-histora' in ten aveeks. — Capt. 'I’hompson also 
brought up for exhibition a brood of /v’y/Ayru yanctada. A J Avas 
beaten from oak at Wimbledon, on .Tune 7th, 1897. Ova Avere de¬ 
posited on the tAvo folJoAving days. Thirty-tAvo larva' hatched out on 
