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niglit of the 6th 34 were laid ; they were more scattered than on the 
previous night, but there was one loose patch of 18; at 1 pan. on the 
8th these were darkening but not yet red ; by 7 aun. on the 9th they 
had turned red. On the night of the 7th, 11 were laid; at 7 a.m. on 
the 9th one of these had turned red, the rest were only flesh-coloured ; 
by 9 a.m. on the 10th all were red. On the night of the 8th, 11 were 
laid; at 7 a.m. on the 9tli all these were of a dull orange except one, 
which was red; on the morning of the 10th two more had become red, 
and on the evening of the same day all were pale red—one very dark 
red or purple. On the night of the 9th, 4 were laid, which were all 
pale orange the next morning, and all red on the 12tli. On the night 
of the 11th two were laid; next morning one of these was pale red, 
the other dirty yellow ; on the 15th both were dark red. These obser¬ 
vations seem to confirm the opinion 1 expressed in my notes on the 
spring batch to the effect that the few fertile eggs of that batch were 
laid in the middle of the period of deposition. I did not take note of 
the exact tint of the freshly-laid eggs for the first two or three days, 
but I do not think that they differed much from the infertile ones of 
the former batch. Some of the later ones, however, if not orange- 
coloured when laid, must have changed very rajndly, as they were 
already of that tint when I examined them only nine or ten hours 
after their deposition, and it will be noticed that one egg turned red in 
this short space of time.” 
Sept. 4dli, 1894.—Exhibits:—Dr. Buckell: Epinephele tithonus ( $ s) 
from Leigh, Essex, showing extra ocelli; Mr. C. G. Barrett (Lepidoptera 
of the British Islands ) remarks, that this species is liable to develop 
extra ocelli in maritime localities. Mr. Nicholson : Eugonia qnercinaria, 
bred from ova laid by a female, which was bred from a larva beaten in 
the New Forest in 1893 ; many of the specimens were strongly suffused 
with brown at the base and hind margins of the fore wings, although 
neither parent was specially conspicuous in that respect. Mr. Clark : 
Dicrannra bifida from Monmouthshire ova ; he stated that he found it 
impossible to obtain eggs from this species in captivity. Mr. Mera: a 
very beautiful and variable, though short, series of Agrotis tritici from 
the East Coast. Mr. Sauze : a series of Formica nigra, showing males, 
females and neuters, also a female after the wings had been snapped 
off. Mr. Bacot: young larvas of Dipterygia scabriusctda ; also a short 
series of Selenia tetralunaria, bred from the ova on which he read a note 
at the meeting on June 5th. Dr. Sequeira: a specimen of Agrotis 
pyrophila among other insects taken at Ilfracombe. Mr. Huckett: 
Dianthoecia albimacula and Sesia chrysidiformis from Folkestone. Capt. 
Thompson: Eapithecia nanata, Scodiona belgiaria and Pleuronota bicos- 
tella from the West Riding of Yorshire, and Grapholitha nigromaculana 
from Rainham. Mr. Tutt then read the following interesting notes of 
a holiday spent with Dr. Chapman in the Alps:— 
BUTTERFLY-CATCHING IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF 
MONT BLANC. 
Overhead the sky is of a lovely blue. The sun’s rays pass through 
the larches and fall upon a sloping hollow that is filled knee-deep with 
scabious and thyme, marjoram and gentians, umbellifers and trefoils, 
barberry and juniper. Two lazy fellows are lounging idly in the shade 
