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A. Bacot exhibited a number of broods reared from parents bred from 
wild lame, taken by Mr. Duncan, at Cluny, Aberdeenshire. 
Brood A .—Both parents of red form produced two red imagines. 
Brood B. -From very dark $ and bright red 2, produced one 
dark and one red specimen. [N.B .—An accident to the larvae of these 
broods accounts for the small number reared.) 
Brood C .—From bright red 2 and melanic J , 53 imagines, 60% 
red and 45% melanic, or with a melanic tendency. 
Brood B. x C. —From a pairing between a red imago from brood B., 
with a red specimen of brood C., 135 imagines, all red, without a trace 
of melanism of the “ grandfather.” 
Brood C 2.—From two melanic imagines of brood Cl, gave 70% 
melanic, and 30% red. Brood C 9.—A similar pairing, yielded the 
like result. 
Brood C 7.—From a similar pairing, yielded 79% melanic and 21% 
red. 
Brood C 3.—From two red imagines of brood C gave 19 red 
specimens. In the third generation— 
Brood C 7x2.—From a pairing between melanic imagines of 
broods C 7 and C2, consisted of 24 melanic specimens, and a second 
brood of similar parentage yielded 12 melanic imagines. 
Brood C 3 x 3.—From two non-melanie parents, gave six non- 
melanic specimens, and second brood from similar parents resulted in 
2 2 specimens of non-melanic form. 
Messrs. Prout, Gardner and Harrison also exhibited series of this 
species. 
Angerona prunaria abs.— Mr. C. P. Pickett, a bred series, in¬ 
cluding $ s and 2 s heavily speckled with brown, an almost uni- 
colourous chocolate 2 and Wo 2 s bred from Monmouth 2 , andRaindene 
and Essex $ , with usual chocolate bands a dull smoky-brown, and the 
yellow'ground colour also very dull; also several asymmetrical specimens. 
Scent glands in Epunda nigra. —Mr. G. H. Heath, a $ taken at 
Sandown, in October, 1905, showing the -white tufted scent glands on 
the underside of the abdomen. 
Malformation of Lygris testata.— Mr. H. M. Edelsten, a specimen, 
destitude of hind wings, taken at light, in Norfolk Broads. 
Lyclena acis and Hesperia paniscus at Mickleham, Surrey.— Mr. 
W. Beattie exhibited two specimens of the former, $ and 2 , and one 
of the latter which he stated had been taken by himself or his daughter 
during 1903 or 1904, in the neighbourhood of Mickleham ; the exhibitor 
had, however, no precise data concerning their capture. 
Ematurga atom.aria ab.— Mr. J. A. Clark, various aberrant forms 
including two 2 s and one 2 , almost entirely black, from Bury, 
Lancs. 
Epirrita dilutata var. christyi.— Mr. E. A. Cockayne, examples of 
this form bred from larvie beaten out of elm at Rannoch. 
November 21st, 1905.— New' Members.— Mr. F. Capel Han bury, 
of 96, Clapton Common, N.E., and Mr. G. G. C. Hodgson, of “ Stone- 
leigh,” Oxford Road, Redhill, were elected members of the Society. 
Breeding experiment with Synopsia abruptaria.-— -Mr. E. Harris 
exhibited a long series representing four generations. 
The original parents were a dark 2 and a light J taken at 
