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October 15th, 1895.—Exhibits:—Mr. Nicholson: a specimen of 
Mamestra brassicae of an almost uniform lead-colour, the discoidal 
spots and subterminal line being of a smoky yellow tint. Mr. Tre- 
mayne : Acidalia contiguaria and other species from N. Wales. Dr. 
Sequeira : amongst other insects, a very fine pale banded form of 
Cidaria site rata, taken at ivy bloom in the New Forest. Mr. 
Oldham : a male Odonestis potatoria with female coloration, bred 
from a Cambridgeshire larva; also a living example of Clielonia caia, 
taken at Woodford on the evening before the meeting. Mr. Bayne : 
Pampbila comnkr, from Aylesbury, showing variation in the amount of 
suffusion with paler scales. Rev. C. R. N. Burrows: series of 
Xanthia gilvago and X. circellaris, from Suffolk, showing some 
beautiful dark varieties. He enumerated a list of 14 species, which he 
had seen at sugar, at Rainham, before he left for the meeting; these 
included Calamia lutosa, Plusia gamma, Noctua c-nigrum, Caradrina 
cubicularis and Orthosia lota. Mr. Bate : a living Acherontia 
atropos, which was easily induced to squeak. In quality of tone the 
sound resembled the cry of the corncrake in miniature, but it was 
repeated incessantly, instead of twice at short intervals as in the case 
of the bird. The vexed question as to the exact method by which the 
sound is produced was not settled, but the proboscis and palpi seemed 
instrumental in its production. Mr. T. W. Jackson : a very large 
bred variety of Cbelonia caia, in which the fore-wings were very 
slightly marked with brown, and the hind-wings were uniformly 
orange, except a blackish blotch near the apex. The left pair of wings 
were less distinctly marked than the right. 
Dr. Buckell read a paper on “ Coenonympha typhon,” several of 
the members exhibiting their series of the insect. 0 
November 5th, 1895.—Exhibits :—Mr. Prout : a variety of Mela- 
nippe unangulata with the central fascia scarcely angulated. He had com¬ 
pared this specimen with Hiibner’sFig. 386, amniculata, which Fischer 
von Roslerstamm says he would refer to his bicolorata ( = unangulata, 
Haw.J, but for the absence of the angle, and which, he conjectures, 
may represent an aberration of that species. Mr. Prout was strongly 
inclined to think that Fischer was right, and that the specimen now 
exhibited was a transition between Hiibner’s extreme example 
and the common forms. Staudinger adds : “ amniculata, Hub.,” with 
a query, as a synonym of unangulata ; but, if it could be proved that 
it is really a figure of that species, the name amniculata would have 
priority. Mr. Bell: specimens of Plwroclesma baiularia from the New 
Forest, June, 1895, which had been killed with ammonia, without the 
colour being affected. 
November 19th, 1895.—Exhibits :—Mr. Prout: a specimen of 
Leucania vitellina, which he had captured at sugar on the 18th Sep¬ 
tember, at Sandown ; also, on behalf of Mr. H. W. Vivian, of Port 
Talbot, S. Wales, some dark forms of Eupithecia virgaureata, and 
other interesting species of the genus from Glamorganshire. Mr. J. 
A. Clark : a series of Oporabia jUigrammaria, bred from a Rannoch 
female, showing considerable variation, from silvery-grey with dark 
bars to nearly black. Mr. Bacot: larvae of Aporopliyla australis in 
the 4th and 5th skins, and larvae of Tryphaena ianthina, fimbria, 
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