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Commander J. J. Walker exhibited specimens of Claviger longicornis, Miill. 

 (with C. testaceus, PreyssL, for comparison), a species of Coleoptera new to the 

 British list. They were taken iinder stones near Kirtlington, Oxfordshire, in 

 May, 1906, and April. 1907, in nests of small black ants of a species not 

 determined, but suggested by Mr. Donisthorpe to be Lasius umbratus. 

 Mr. Donisthorpe, specimens of Microdon mutabilis bred in his observation nest 

 of Formica fusca from Porlock, also the nest itself, with the ants and a live larva 

 of Microdon taken at Porlock, April 27th, 1911, and pvipa cases and larvae of the 

 fly in spirit. Mr. W. C. Crawley said that he had found one larva in a nest of 

 Myrmica ruginodis instead of the iisual host Formica fusca. Prof. Poulton, the 

 following Lepidoptera with the " Neptis " pattern, collected by C. A. Wiggins 

 near Entebbe ; all the specimens had been captured in forests within a few miles 

 of Entebbe, between May 23rd and July 2oth, 1909: — Neptidopsis ophione, Cram., 

 Neptis melicerta, Drury ; N. agatha, StoU. ; N. meteila, Dbl.-Hew. ; N. 7iicomedes, 

 Hew., var. quintilla, Mab. ; N. nemetes, Hew. ; N. saclava, Boisd. ; N. nysiades, 

 Hew., ab. continuata, Holl. ; N. puella, Aiu-iv. ; Deilemera leuconoe, Hopif. ; D. 

 transitella, Strand. Neptis nicomedes, nysiades ab. continuata, and puella, were 

 closely similar, and woidd be indistingaiishable upon the wing. The two Hypsid 

 moths pi'esented a rough approximation to the pattern. Professor Poidton, the 

 male and female types of Neptis sivynnertoni, a new species from S.E. Rhodesia, 

 described by Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., together with a specimen captured in 

 thegarden at Chirinda (3800 ft.) on March 28th, 1911, by Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton. 

 Prof. Poulton, Tirumala formosa, Godm., and its mimic Papilio rex, Obth., from 

 the Kikuyu Escarpment, near Naii-obi, British East Africa ; the same Danaine, 

 and the transitional Papilio commixta, Auriv., from Nyangori, at the N.E. corner 

 of the Victoria Nyanza ; T. mercedonia, Karsch, and Papilio mimeticus, Rothsch., 

 from Buddu on the W. shore of the lake ; and T. morgeni, Honrath, with three 

 of its Amauris models — psyttalea, Plotz, hecate, Butler, and an imdetermined 

 species, probably new, from the Cameroons. Professor Poulton, the three largest 

 Lycaenidse captured by Mr. W. A. Lamborn, and suggested that an undetermined 

 pupa in the nest of (Ecophylla might possibly belong to one of them. The three 

 large species were Epitola honoriiis, F., male and female, E. posthumus, F., male, 

 and Hewitsonia boisduvali. Hew., male and female. Mr. Lamborn's notes on the 

 two females showed a remarkable degree of sluggishness. Professor Poulton, 

 a male Amauris egialea, Cram., recently received from Mr. W. A. Lamborn. The 

 " paper " enclosing the specimen bore the following note : — " 8 a.m. Half mile 

 [from Oni clearing] ; Janiiary 30, 1912. Observed flying up and down. It 

 then settled on upper surface of leaf and started to pass its brushes to and fro 

 over its scent-patches, exactly as Amauris niavius did. Wings were rather over- 

 flexed." Dr. F. A. Dixey and Professor Kellogg commented on this exhibit. — 

 G. Wheeler, Hon. Secretary. 



