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pp. 339-341). — -Ed. J . Ova of Sesia andreniforiaiis. — Mr. Newman 

 further exhibited ova in situ of Sesia anil leni form is : and Mr. A. E. 

 Tonge a photograph x 26 of the same. Cetoniid.e from Uganda. — 

 Mr. 0. E. -Janson showed a remarkable gynadroraorphic example of 

 Lioliatlnis ijii/anteus and other Cetoniidae recently collected by Mr. E. 

 Brown in Uganda, British East Africa, including both sexes of the 

 rare Formasimus ritssns. Nearly all the species exhibited were West 

 African forms, proving the great similarity of the central African 

 fauna, extending over a district of two to three thousand miles across 

 that continent. Variation in Amorpha. — The Rev. G. Wheeler brought 

 for exhibition a case containing many examples, showing a wide range 

 of variation, bred from identical parents of Amorpha popidi, taken in 

 Lancashire ; also a curious pale dwarf example of Smerintlnis ocellata 

 from the same locality. Beetles from the crop of pheasant. — Mr. C. 0. 

 Waterhouse exhibited specimens of a beetle of the family Chrijsomelidae, 

 Crosita altaica, found by a poulterer at Bournemouth in the crop of a 

 pheasant from Russia. He remarked on the brilliancy of the metallic 

 coppery-red and green colours, and said that it had been held by some that 

 bright metallic colours were warning-colours. Agriades coridon double- 

 brooded. — Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited specimens of the spring 

 emergence of double- brooded Ai/riades coridon, ta.\ieu in April and May last 

 at various places in the St. Tropez district of the Riviera, c/:., le Canadel, 

 Pardigon, and several difi'erent points near Ste. Maxime, at various 

 dates from April 28rd. to May 11th. He added that the original 

 locality where the species was abundant several years ago near Ste. 

 Maxime, afforded this year only a specimen or two, the Hippocrepis, 

 that abounded there having nearly died out, largely smothered by 

 growth of i'istiis viontpeliensis. In each place where the species 

 appeared Hip})ocrepis was present over areas of only a few dozen square 

 yards, so that one wondered how the butterfly could maintain itself. 

 No Hippocrepis was seen except where the A. coridon was found. The 

 butterfly must be able to wander (often for some miles) from one such 

 locality to another, or it could hardly maintain its existence as it does. 

 The specimens shown displayed a considerable variation, but all 

 appeared to be of one race. Living larv^ and imago from the south 

 OF france.^ — ^Dr. Chapman also showed (a) larvae of Thestor ballus in 

 last instar, feeding on flowers of Ule.v eiiropaeas: (b) Larva of Afiriades 

 coridon var. constanti, from eggs laid at Ste. Maxime at the beginning 

 of May, and now in third instar ; and ((/) a living imago of Callophrys 

 avis, Chpmn., a somewhat belated specimen, that emerged June 1st, 

 1910 ; the delay no doubt due to an unsuccessful attempt at forcing in 

 February. Rare insects from Portugal. — Dr. K. Jordan exhibited a 

 living specimen ( J ) of a species of Truxalis obtained by him at Portimiio 

 South Portugal, and also showed some living larvae and the cocoon of a 

 moth, Diplura loti. The larvte were found on Cistus in the Serra de 

 Monchique, Algarve, South Portugal, on May 13th, and were being fed 

 upon tielianthemnm. They apparently resemble the caterpillar of 

 Lachneis lanestris so closely that a generic separation appears to be 

 hardly justified. A Lyc^nid attendant on at Homopteron. — Mr. 

 Hamilton H. C. J. Druce read some notes received from Mr. J. C. 

 Moulton, of the Sarawak Museum, on the association of a Homopteron 

 with a Lycffinid butterfly observed in Borneo. 



