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Eev. J. W. Metcalfe, The Vicarao-e, Ottexy St. Mary ; Kixrt, Baron Rosen, 

 Zoologische Staatssanimhing, Municli. 



The Council nominated the following Fellows as Officers and Council for 

 the Session 1913-1914: President: George T. Betlume-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; 

 Treasurer : Albert Hugh Jones ; Secretaries : Commander J. J. Walker, M.A., 

 E.N., F.L.S., and the Rev. George Wheeler, M. A., F Z.S. ; Librarian: George 

 Charles Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S. ; Other Members of the Council : Robert Adkin, 

 James E. Collin, John Hartley Durrant, Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Harry 

 Eltringham, M.A., F.Z.S., A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.R.H.S., Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., 

 Gilbert W. Nicholson, M.A., M.D., Hon. Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, M.A., 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., W. E. Sharp, J. R. le B. Tomlin, M.A., Colbran J. Wainwright. 



Mr. W. A. Lamborn exhibited (1) a small company of the Nymphaline 

 butterfly, Euphxdra ravola, Hew., which he had bred in August last from larvte 

 found together under one leaf near Oni Camp, Lagos ; also a single bred 

 Euphxdra themis, Hiibn., and stated though this butterfly looks almost exactly 

 the same as E. ravola, yet the larva was quite difCei'ent in colour, and it fed on 

 a different food-plant. (2) Two In-ed families of the Pierine butterfly, Leucer- 

 ojiirt argia. Fain-., with the ? parent in each case. The ? parent of the first 

 family was yellow without any orange flush at the base of the fore-wing. This 

 family contained nine females, five of which were yellow and four white, and 

 all these females exhibited an orange fiush. In the second family the female 

 parent again \vas yellow without orange flush. There wei-e only two female 

 offsj)ring, one of which i-esembled the parent exactly, ^vhereas the other, a white 

 variation, showed the orange flush. Mr. E. C. Bedwell, specimens of Lasio- 

 somus ewerris, H.S., one of the rarest of the British Lygeeidse. Mr. O. E. Janson, 

 specimens of a remarkable Mantid ootheca from Delegoa Bay. Mr. E. C. Joy, 

 two aberrant specimens of C. cdusa, bred from Folkestone in October last 

 Dr. K. Jordan, two nests of Eucheira socialis recently received from Western 

 Mexico. The caterpillars of this Pierine butterfly live gregarioixsly in an 

 opaqvie nest of silk. The following papers were read : " Notes on Various 

 Central American Coleoptera, with Descriptions of New Genera and Species," 

 by G. C. Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S., P.E.S. "The Butterflies of the White Nile, 

 a Study in Geograpliical Distribution," by G. B. Longstaff, M.A., M.D., F.E.S. 

 A considerable discussion took place on the subject of Dr. Longstaff's paper. 



A LIST OF BUTTERFLIES COLLECTED DURING THE LAST TEN 

 YEARS IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 



BY THE REV. K. ST. AUBYN ROGERS, F.E.S. 



The knowledge of the bvitterfly faima of Tropical Africa has been 

 extendiug with great rapidity during the last few years. Many papers 

 have been piiblislied on collections made in the country, so that I have 

 not found it possible to collate the results of the numerous naturalists 

 who have collected there. 



