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Mygale from Californiii. Mr. J. K. le B. Tonilin sliowwd ii specimen which he 

 said was not strictly an entomological exhil)it, l)iit from its curious resomblance 

 to a caterpillar might be of momentary interest to Fellows. It was in reality a 

 species of West Indian oyster (Ostrea frons, L.) which attaches itself to twigs. 

 Pi-ofessor Poiilton remarked that both this and the Coccinellid exhibited by Mr. 

 Sennett were probably cases of accidental resemblance. Professor E. B. Poulton 

 exhibited the following specimens of insects captured as prey, sent to him by ' 

 Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton, from the outskirts (3,800 feet) of Chirinda Forest, 

 Gazaland, S. E. Rhodesia. (1) The female form hippocoon of Papilio dardanus 

 cenen, Stoll, rescued, September 8th, 1911, by one of his native collectors from 

 a M'lanje Bulbul {Phyllostrephus milanjensis). The head was wanting, and 

 there were symmetrical injiu-ies at the anal angle of the hind-wings similar to 

 those so often seen in living butterflies. (2) Two wings of Precis archesia, Cr., 

 and the fragments of a Blattid, probably of the genus Deropeltis, taken 

 June 25th, 1911, fi-om a spider's web. Professor Poulton also, specimens showing 

 instances of mimiciy, sent by Mr. J. C. Moulton from Sarawak, and read Mr. 

 Moulton's account of them, wished to acknowledge the kind help he had received 

 from Mr. C. J. Gahan, who had compared several of the Coleoptem with the types, 

 and liad described one new species of Daphisia. Professor Poixlton, six male ex- 

 amples of a remarkable Lycfenid, all captured, November 22nd, 1910, in the Uhehe 

 District (3,000—3,500 feet) of German East Africa, by Mr. S. A. Neave, F.E.S. 

 The pattern and lirilliant colours, which were extraordinary in a Lycssnid, 

 strongly suggested, on both upper and under surface, the appearance, although 

 on a smaller scale, of an Acrsea of the type of A. anemosa, Hew. Mr. Stanley 

 Edwards, a specimen of Oxynopterus audouini, a beetle from Borneo, with 

 abnormal antennae, apparently gynandromorphic, and explained that Mr. Gahan 

 had dissected it and found the genitalia to be entirely 9 . Mr. H. C. Dollman, 

 the following species of Coleoptera .- — Philonthus intennedius, Boisd., ab. donis- 

 thorpei, tollman, described in the Ent.Rec, December, 1910; Stenusfonnicetoruin, 

 Mann., introduced as British in the Ent. Rec, April, 1911 ; Bemb-ldium quadri- 

 pustulatum, Dj., an example from Ditchling, Sussex, August 17th, 1911 ; Hypo- 

 phloeus linearis, F., retaken at Oxshott, in July of this year ; a species hitherto 

 taken in (ireat Britain only in Surrey, at Oxshott and Woking ; Mycetoporiis 

 forticornis, Fauv., one specimen from the New Forest, with M. clavicornis, 

 Steph., for comparison; Philonthus corruscus, Gr., taken from a dead rabbit at 

 Ditchling; Stenus morio, Gr., from Ditchling, taken in October, 1910. Mr. H. 

 Eltringham, a bred series of Acrxa orestia. Hew., containing the typical form, 

 and also the A. humilis of Miss E. M. Sharpe, thus demonstrating the truth of the 

 conclusion at which he had previously arrived as to the specific identity of these 

 two forms. He also showed three <? black and yellow Acrasas, one of which was 

 the A. ci reels of Drury from S. Leone. The other two, while differing in appear- 

 ance from A. circeis, were themselves exactly alike, but for the fact that the two 

 tai-sal claws of the second and third pairs of feet were equal and similar in one 

 specimen and unequal and dissimilar in the other. A long and interesting 

 discussion followed on the question of the importance of the tarsal claws as a 

 means of specific distinction, and on the possible correlation of unev(;n claws in 

 the <J , and the abdominal sac in the ? . Mr. Champion called attention to a 



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