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affinities were rather with Agrotis than Tczniocampa. He also remarked 
that the Shetland form of festiva was often referred to as var. conflua 
instead of var. thulei. Mr. Clark, on behalf of the members pf the 
“ Record Exchange Club,” exhibited some very dark (almost melanic) 
specimens of Liparis monacha , belonging to Mr. Reid of Fitcaple and 
a dwarf form of Anchocelis litura belonging to Capt. Robertson, when 
Mr. Tutt made some remarks on the var. eremita , and the appearance 
of banded forms in the New Forest in certain years. Mr. Hodges 
exhibited a long series of fine pale forms of Luperina testacea from the 
Isle of Wight. Mr. Tutt exhibited a var. of this species taken by Mr. 
Baxter at St. Anne’s-on-Sea—- the same specimen by means of which 
Mr. South ( Entom. xxii., pp. 271, 272) had attempted to sink the 
nickerlii of Freyer as a var. of testacea. Mr. Tutt, referring to Mr. 
South’s article, said that that gentleman had linked the specimen with 
var. guen'eei {Entom. xxii., .p. 271), but that the specimen before the 
members, as might be seen, was wanting altogether in the black mark¬ 
ings of that variety, and that therefore his connection of Mr. Baxter’s 
specimen with guen'eei was unwarranted, and as Mr. South used gueneei 
as a link between Mr. Baxter’s specimen and nickerlii , this also was 
abortive. He then drew attention to Mr. South’s description of Mr. 
Feech’s so-called nickerlii from Bohemia. Mr. Tutt said that he would 
not argue that these specimens were not, as stated by Mr. South, vars. 
of L. testacea. Probably they were, and further than that, probably 
somewhat similar to Mr. Baxter’s beautiful form. But if so, they could 
not be Freyer’s nickerlii. Mr. Tutt then read a translation of Freyer’s 
original description of nickerlii , and compared it with Mr. South’s 
description of the Bohemian specimens. How, Mr. Tutt asked, could 
the specimens in question be referred to nickerlii which Freyer de¬ 
scribed as “ reddish grey in colour,” when the colour in the most 
distinctly marked Bohemian specimen, was “ grey, tinged with 
ochreous,” and in the Lancashire specimens, “pale grey”? The only 
characters common to nickerlii , Freyer, the Bohemian specimen de¬ 
scribed and the Lancashire specimen, appeared to be the pale edging of 
the transverse lines and white hind wings; characters present in many 
forms of testacea which differ endlessly in other particulars. Herrich- 
Schaffer’s nickerlii , it was pointed out, is almost red-brown in colour 
(fig. 565), with distinct cuneiform spots outside the stigmata. These 
were not present in Mr. Baxter’s specimen. When we considered, too, 
that Mr. South based his conclusion and suggested sinking an European 
species on this specimen of Mr. Baxter’s which agrees with neither the 
published descriptions or figures, we got a tolerable idea of the value of 
these conclusions. Mr. South might have suggested the probability of 
nickerlii being a var. of testacea , but to sink it at once on such slender 
evidence appeared altogether out of reason. Mr. Clark and other 
members remarked on the nearness of some of Mr. Hodges’ specimens 
to the Lancashire specimen. 
Mr. Milton exhibited the following species of Coleoptera :— Dichiro- 
trichus obscurus , (E deni era lurida , Chrysomela goettingensis , C. lamina , 
Donacia sagittarice , and D. dentipes , all from Needham Market. Mr. 
Heasler, Cymbiodyta marginellus and Phylhydrus melanocephalus , taken 
by digging in the banks of streams at Mitcham. He remarked that it 
was often stated that water beetles passed the winter in the mud at the 
