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Euchloe cardamines, with the central spot very small, all from Wis¬ 
bech. Aberrations. —Mr. H. H. May exhibited Boarmia repandata, 
ab. conversance (3 $ and 3 2 ), taken at Lyndhurst, June, 1896. Also 
a male Himera pennana, having the wings suffused with smoky brown, 
and the apical white spot rather larger than usual; and a $ Agrotis 
exclamationis with confluent stigmata. Egg of Pamphila comma. —Mr. 
Bacot said he had opened an egg of Pamphila comma on October 11th 
last, and had found the young larva fully developed within. Pup>£ of 
Papilio machaon.— He also read the folloAving notes on pupae of 
Papilio machaon-.—- 11 During the past season I had some larvae of 
Papilio machaon. They were fed up on carrot-tops, in a hat-box, with 
a small muslin-covered opening in the lid to admit light and air. 
Three or four fastened themselves upon carrot stems, and produced 
green pupae. Three attached themselves to a red terracotta flour- 
pan (exhibited), and turned to grey pupae, strongly shaded with dark 
brown. The remainder (seven) pupated on the white sides and top 
of the box, and were in every case of the grey form, though varying 
greatly as to the extent and depth of the brown shading, one being 
dirty white rather than grey, with hardly a trace of darker shading on 
it.” Mellinia ocellaris in Essex. —Mr. Tutt exhibited a specimen of 
M. ocellaris, and read the following notes :—“ The specimen exhibited 
was captured by Mr. F. Whittle, in September, 1894, who writes :— 
‘ I send for your inspection a fine specimen of M. gilvago. I suppose 
it is gilvago, not ocellaris, although its superior wings are sharply 
falcate, and there is a conspicuous white spot at the base of the 
reniform. M. gilvago was not uncommon at the time.’ There is no 
doubt that it is M. ocellaris. The fact that the British individuals of 
Mellinia ocellaris are almost always taken where M. gilvago occurs, leads 
me to refer to a quotation from The Brit. Noctuae and their Varieties, 
vol. iv., p. 122. This relates to a statement by Fuchs, who says :— 
‘ My own captured gilvago and ocellaris, however, lead me to believe 
in the identity of these species, as I have one gilvago with the tips of 
the fore-wings acutely pointed as in ocellaris. All my specimens, 
both of gilvago and ocellaris, have been taken in the noted poplar 
avenue of Hamburg, where gilvago is the rarer, and ocellaris the 
commoner species. The freshly-emerged specimens were taken on the 
trunks of poplars during the afternoon ’ ( Stett. Ent. Zeit., vol. xliv., 
p. 264).” Mr. Tutt said that, in his opinion, the species were abun¬ 
dantly distinct, and he exhibited a typical specimen of Mellinia gilvago 
for comparison. Isle of Man insects.— Mr. Tutt exhibited, for Mr. 
H. Shortridge Clarke, a box of insects from the Isle of Man, com¬ 
prising, among others, Hipparchia semele, a male specimen of the ab. 
addenda, Zygaena trifolii, Agrotis corticea, A. vestigialis, A. tritici, 
Pseudoterpna pruinata, Helotropha leucostigma, Epunda lutulenta 
ab. sedi, Haclena contigua, Caradrina taraxaci, Ancliocelis rufina, 
Porthesia similis, etc. ; also an aberration of Abraxas grossulariata, with 
very strong black and orange markings, and a female aberration of 
Amphidasys betularia, in which the usual black peppering was absent, 
the whitish ground colour, with only the traces of the ordinary trans¬ 
verse lines, giving the specimen a strange appearance. The type 
occurs in the Isle of Man. Bombyx quercOs and Bombyx callun^:.— 
Capt. Thompson re-opened the discussion on these insects, and said 
