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the first character is carried to the extreme, and no creamy rings are 
present at all. This form is the ab. berolinensis of Staudinger. A 
combination of these two aberrations comprise almost 90 per cent, of 
the sum total of the specimens of this species observed atBourgd’Oisans. 
I would also call attention to the union of the central and basal pairs 
of spots in many specimens.” Carsia paludata ab. imbutata and 
Melanippe montanata. — Mr. Oldham exhibited Carsia paludata 
ab. imbutata, from Manchester Mosses, and remarked on the gradual 
restriction of the mosses by drainage and cultivation. The Melanippe 
montanata were from Cambridgeshire, and some were very white, witn 
very distinct bands. Triphaena fimbkia ab. vihescens.— Mr. Iieasler 
exhibited a specimen of T. fimbria ab. virescens, Tutt, from Wimbledon. 
In the Mew Forest, he said, it was generally looked upon as being 
very rare. Mr. Tutt thought it was a generally distributed form. 
Vauiation of Eupithecia sobhinata.— Mr. Tutt exhibited a picked 
series of Eupithecia sobrinata, captured by Mr. and Mrs. Tunaley, at 
Aviemore. He said he believed the Scotch race as a whole 
was named var. scotica, by Dr. F. B. White, but the name was 
generally restricted to the pale variegated forms, which did not appear 
to occur in the South of England. The series showed that there was 
considerable variation among the Scotch specimens, the indi¬ 
viduals arranging themselves into two parallel groups, one 
running through a series of brown forms, until the species 
became almost unicolorous brown. The other through a series 
of grey forms, until they culminated in an almost unicolorous 
fuscous form. Scotch forms of Emmelesia ericetata.— Mr. Tutt 
then exhibited a series of Emmelesia ericetata, also captured by 
Mr. and Mrs. Tunaley, at Aviemore. These showed considerable 
variation: — (li In depth of ground colour, some being much 
whiter, others greyer. (2) In the amount of ochreous tint. (3) In 
the width and completeness of the central band (forms with this 
central band broken just below the centre were very rare). Abkrra- 
TtoNs of Abraxas grossulariata.— Mr. C. May exhibited a marvellous 
series of aberrations of A. grossvlanata (about 180 specimens). They 
had all been bred during the last two years under identical conditions, 
and showed every phase of variation, from being almost devoid of 
black markings to being exceedingly suffused, and almost entirely 
black. A few specimens had lost all trace of the yellow markings, and 
others were of the semi-transparent suffused character, so well-known 
to breeders of this species. Banded form of Hybkrnia auhantiaria.— 
Mr. May also exhibited a form of H. aurantiaria, with two dark 
bands very distinctly marked, owing to suffusion of the outer and 
basal areas. Dark aberration of Plusta gamma.— Mr. C. May then 
exhibited a very suffused aberration of P. gamma, the ground colour 
being of a dark reddish-brown. Mr. Tutt said that a similar aberra¬ 
tion was described in The British Noctuae and their Varieties (vol. iv., 
p. 32). Second brood of Arctia caia. —Mr. Bate exhibited specimens 
of a second brood of A. caia, which had been bred from eggs laid in 
June last. The specimens had a tendency to assume a yellowish 
coloration in the hind-wings, due, perhaps, to the rapidity of feeding- 
up, and the rapidity with which they came to maturity. Hairs of 
Leucoma samcis and Psiuira monaciia. — Mr. Bacot exhibited drawings 
