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Mr. Clark : a very fine exhibit of foreign Coleoptera, including the 
following: $ and $ Chalcosoma atlas (India), $ and 5 Odontolabis 
cuvera (India), $ and 5 Ceratorrhina polyphemus (W. Africa), $ and 
5 Xijlotrupes dichotomies (Japan), $ and 5 Eurytrachelus titan 
(Java), Goliathus druriji (W. Africa), Batocera vallacei (var.), Chiasog- 
natlius grand (Chili). Oporabia nebulata and Oporabia filigrammaria. 
—Mr. Prout: a representative series of named forms of Oporabia 
nebulata (dilutata ); a variable series of 0. filigrammaria from Ireland, 
Yorkshire, Bolton and Isle of Lewis ; examples of the different forms 
which have by various authors been named autumnata (-aria), namely: 
autumnata, Bkh., from Germany, a North Finland specimen agreeing 
with the figure of autumnata, Gn.; a large specimen from Scheeberg, 
received as dilutata, but agreeing in the genitalia with filigrammaria 
or autumnaria, and a short series of addmdaria, B.-White = 
autumnaria, Weav. ; also a bred specimen of approximaria, Gregson, 
lent by Mr. F. N. Pierce, of Liverpool; also lame of nebulata 
(dilutata) in the second, third, fourth, and fifth stages, and those of 
filigrammaria in the fourth and fifth stages. Mr. Prout read an ex¬ 
haustive paper “ On the genus Oporabia." Mr. Tremayne said he had 
once come across a specimen of this genus, presumably 0. filigram¬ 
maria, in the Fairy Glen, Penmaenmawr. It was resting on a trunk 
about 6 ft. from the ground, with the fore-wings slightly raised 
inwardly over the back, so as to leave the hind-wings slightly pro¬ 
truding at the sides, after the manner of Gastropacha quercifolia, when 
at rest. The month was September, and the specimen was a perfect 
wreck, but had evidently belonged to a strongly banded form. Early 
appearance of Melanippe fluctuata. —Mr. Riches said that he had 
taken a specimen of Melanippe fiuetuata on May 1st. 
June 1st, 1897.— Tiresias serra bred. —Mr. Heasler exhibited 
Tiresias serra, bred from larva obtained under bark at Richmond, last 
January. This species appeared to pupate in the last larval skin. 
Notes on breeding Arctia caia. — Mr. Bate exhibited four female 
Arctia caia, the offspring of a pair exhibited with them, which were 
the second brood of 1896, emerging in September last. He said : 
“ These four ‘forwards ’ fed through the winter indoors, pupated in 
February, 1897, and emerged after exactly 50 days in the pupal state. 
They were generally dark, and had more or less black fringe to hind- 
wings.” Variation of larva of Saturnia carpini. —Mr. Bate also 
exhibited two larvae of Saturnia pavonia-minor, one in the 2nd, and 
one in the 3rd skin. The first was black, with orange tubercles ; the 
second was green, with interesting club-shaped hairs on the thoracic 
and last two abdominal segments. Notes on Melanippe montanata. 
—Mr. Prout exhibited a short bred series of Melanippe montanata, 
from a J captured in Epping Forest. Eight of these fed up and 
emerged in the autumn; two hybernated in their final skin ; also two 
bred specimens of the var. slietlandica, Weir, the larvae of which 
hybernated in the last skin but one ; also a specimen of the var. 
lapponica, Stgr., from North Finland. Mr. Tutt, in his British Moths, 
p. 274, appears to unite these two varieties, but they seem to differ 
considerably (as Herr August Hoffmann has remarked), in that the 
former is darker imd more ochreous, the latter much paler than the 
type form. Living larv.e —Mr. Bacot: Larva 1 "f Ac id alia m ary hie - 
