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efforts of the committee to provide for their entertainment. Although 
t ie proximity of the date to the Easter Holidays prevented some 
mends exhibiting, who would have done so had they been in town, 
yet the committee acknowledge with great satisfaction that they were 
well supported by the members of their own society, and met with 
much kindness on the part of well-known entomologists, who brought 
selected portions of their collections to add to the attractiveness of the 
exhibits. Lepidoptera predominated, and care had been exercised to 
procure the representation of most of the groups. British Lepidop- 
iera.— Mr. J. A. Clark (vice-president) brought his drawers of British 
butterflies, supplying a complete representation of all our known 
species, special attention being directed to a long series of J and 
? Chrysophanus dispar, now extinct as a British insect, and to 
hermaphrodite specimens of Dry as {Aryynnis) papliia, Plebeius 
( Lycaena ) aegon, and Polyommatus icarus (Lycaena alexis), etc., and 
b ack varieties of Limenitis sibylla. Mr. C. Nicholson exhibited 
Khodocerid, Vanessid and Argynnid Butterflies, and a case of forms 
of aberration from type, including a Pyrameis atalanta, with partial 
bleaching of red band on right hind-wing ; Pyrameis cardui, with an 
additional white spot on fore-wings in one specimen, and curious 
neuration of left-hind wing in another; and Ay la is urticac approaching 
yar. ichnusa. Mr. A. W. Dennis showed a case of picked varieties of 
Lepidoptera, of which the principal were a xanthic Epinephele janira ; 
Pararye egeria, a ? with eig-ht markings enlarged, and a $ with J 
coloration; Pyrameis cardui, much suffused with black; Aryynnis 
adippe, with median black band on all wings; Brenthis selene, with 
pale ground colour, and a second specimen with black band on hire¬ 
lings , Cupido minima, short series of undersides, showing variation 
from normal markings to all spots obsolete; Polyommatus bellargus, a 
A with ground colour light ash, and all basal spots and spots within 
lunules absent; /’. icarus, a with ocelli obsolete ; Spilosoma lubri- 
cipeda, with central fascia on all wings, extreme London form ; 5. 
menthastri, with all usual spots very much enlarged, taken in London 
district; Callimorpha dominula, with all spots on fore-wings buff. 
Mr. Dennis followed the plan of placing for comparison a°typical 
specimen by the side of each insect divergent from the type. Mr. 
Robert Adkin lent his “ clear-wings,” including series of the whole of 
the known British species; a drawer of Bombycid moths, with long 
series of Endromis versicolor, Lasiocampa quercifolia and L. ilici folia, 
amongst the latter being one of the original Cannock Chase specimens ; 
and a box of choice varieties, viz., Camptoyranvma bilineata, black 
forms from Kerry and banded forms from Shetland ; Thera juniperata, 
banded forms from Orkney ; Amphidasys betidaria, black forms from 
Yorkshire, and others ; Boarmia cinctaria, banded and plain forms 
from S. Ireland; B. repandata, black, brown and grey forms from 
various localities in Britain. The variable species, Abraxas gross- 
ulariata, was represented in a second box by some numbers, specimens 
having the black markings and spots reduced to a vanishing point, 
and leading through more darkly marked forms to a black specimen! 
in which the yellow spots were absent, and white merely represented 
ohsoletely by three faint spots on each fore-wing. Mr. J. W. Tutt 
(president) undertook to exhibit some of the Zygamids, and gave 
workers at this group an opportunity of studying Zyyaena hippocre- 
