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brown stripes, right side normal, and a female with streaks of male 
colour. 
October 3rd, 1911.— Calamia phragmitidis, ab. —Mr. G. Brooks, a 
specimen from Wicken, with a small black striate spot just below the 
centre of costal streak. 
Lyc.ena corydon, abs. —Mr. F. B. Cross, a number of females from 
South Cambs. showing more or less $ coloration on secondaries; also 
var. senti-synyrapha. 
Melanargia galatea—bred. —Mr. C. P. Pickett, a series from 
lame collected at Folkestone and reared in a glass-house ; the specimens 
were large. The most noteworthy examples were:—Uppersides, a^ 
with usual black markings much exaggerated, and another with 
central area of primaries almost devoid of black ; undersides, one <? 
with black markings much reduced and subdued, and two $ s with 
the black markings much enlarged, the white colour suffused with a 
bluish black tinge. 
Pieris rap.e—third brood. — Mr. C. P. Pickett, specimens bred 
from Leytonstone, including a spotless $ and a $ with the spots on 
primaries joined ; on the undersides the whole series showed a 
yellowish ground colour with black scales. 
Colias hyale. —Mr. C. P. Pickett, specimens from Folkestone, 
August, 1911. 
Pararge meg.era. —Mr. C. P. Pickett, a series from Folkestone, 
1911, including a dark suffused . 
Agrotis rip.e. —Mr. J. Riches, a series from St. Annes-on-Sea, 
1910, the specimens being all of a dark form. 
Rumicia phl.eas, abs. —Mr. A. J. Willsdon, a number of more or 
less aberrant forms from,Deal district, 1911, including vars. radiata, 
canileopunctatci, major, and a specimen with left primary of a pale 
straw colour. 
Abundance of Lepidoptera at Light. —Mr. J. E. Gardner men¬ 
tioned having observed an extraordinary number of moths round the 
electric lights in Amherst Park, London, one night in July about 
midnight. Round one lamp about 60 different species were identified. 
October 17th, 1911.— Abraxas grossulariata. —Rev. C. R. N. 
Burrows, a number of aberrations bred 1911 from larvae mostly 
collected at Macclesfield and Wallesey ; the series included an example 
of ab. larti color (Raynor), with black suffusion on basal area of 
superiors, also ab. fulvapicata (Raynor), and specimens showing con¬ 
siderable increase of black markings. 
Zyg.enids. —Mr. E. A. Cockayne, specimens of Zyyaenids of 
doubtful identity, from a colony found in a Berkshire field, which 
produced both five and six spotted forms in June, 1911. 
Micro-lepidoptera. —Mr. J. E. Gardner, specimens of Oedemato- 
phorus lithodactylus, Platyptilia isodactylus, Adkinia bipunctidactyla, 
and Amblyptilia cosmodactylus, and a long and very variable series of 
Peronea rarieyana, mostly collected in a Clapton garden. 
Variable GOdematophorus lithodactylus. —Mr. G. H. Heath, a 
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