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colour and the lower a dark green and its silken girth was passed 
round the lower portion of the upper chrysalis. 
Lycaena icarus, abs. —Mr. W. E. King, a variable series from 
Lewes, some of the females being bright blue, one female brown with 
the orange spots obsolete, an an underside aberration with the spots 
united into streaks = ah. striata, Tint. 
Early emergences.— Mr. L. W. Newman recorded the early 
emergences in his out-door cages during the past few days of 
Amphidasys strataria and a hybrid Nyssia zonaria and N. hirtaria. 
Mr. A. Mera had found Hyberniu leucophearia common at Chingford, 
on February 17th. Mr. Newman’s hybernating larvae of Argynnis 
paphia, commenced to move about on February 20th, a date which for 
several years, and notwithstanding inclement weather, he had not 
found them to vary from. 
March 5th, 1912.— Donation.- The Librarians announced the 
receipt from the President of the 1911 Volume of the Entomologist's 
Record. A vote of thanks to the donor ivas proposed by Messrs. Cross 
and Shaw and duly carried. 
Zonosoma pendularia ab. ianthinarium, Stichel.- —Mr. Robert 
Adkin, a bred series including ab. ianthinarium bred from New Forest 
larvae in 1911 by Mr. W. H. Harwood. This ab. has not hitherto 
been recorded as British (see Entomologist’s Record, vol. xxiv., p. 25). 
BoARMIA REPANDATA VAR. NIGRA FROM NORTH LONDON.- Mr. G. 
Brooks, a specimen reared from a larvae found at Hampstead in 1911. 
Vanessa io in February.— Dr. J. S. Sequeira, a living specimen 
found on February dying in a toolhouse in the Rectory garden at 
South Hackney, London. Although Dr. Sequeira had lived at his 
house at Hackney for the past 35 years he had never seen or heard of 
a specimen having been seen in the vicinity before. 
Discussion on the genus Zonosoma.— The evening was set aside 
for a discussion on this genus, w'hich was opened by Mr. L. B. Prout, 
who in the course of his remarks dealt exhaustively ivith the variation 
of the different species, not only of those occurring in this country, 
but also of those on the Continent, was supported by the following 
exhibits:—Mr. H. M. Edelsten, Z.porata, piinctaria,linearia, annulata, 
and vars. ohsoleta and bi-ohsoleta, orbicular!a, pendularia, and var. sub- 
roseata. Mr. L. B. Prout, on behalf of Mr. R. South, a series of Z. 
porata bred in June, 1901, from ova of a specimen taken at Oxshott, 
in August, 1900. Five or six of the specimens bred -were of a brownish 
coloration, tinged with reddish on the discal area as is usual in this 
species. Mr. South did not notice any difference in the coloration of 
the insects when removed from the breeding cage in which they 
emerged ; they were placed in the ammonia jar, and then turned out 
for setting, when the unusual colouring was at once detected. 
Although he thought that the change in colour might be due to the 
action of ammonia, he was at a loss to understand why the other 
specimens had not been affected in a similar manner, seeing that they 
too had been killed by ammonia. Mr. A. W. Mera, his cabinet drawer 
containing the genus Zonosoma, including specimens of a second 
brood of punctaria, which by reason of distinct spotting were quite 
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