284 (November, 



taken in carrion and very rare; Telephorus abdomiinilis found among bracken ; T. 

 Darwinianus ; Rhynchites cupreus ho\\\ mountain asli ; a.ud Agabus arcticus. Mr. 

 Enock, a pair of Orihetrum cancellutnm captured in cop. at Wisley on July 20tli, 

 the female was of the same blue colour as the male. 



September 12th, 1901.— Mr. W. J. LucAS, B.A„ Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. South exhibited two old specimens of tlie buff variety of Amphklasys 

 betularia type form, and a buif variety of var. Doubledayaria, which he had received 

 from a correspondent. Dr. Chapman, a much suffused black var. of an Argynnii 

 sp. from Spain, in shape it was A. Aglaia, but the under-side was marked like A. 

 Adippe. Mr. Lucas, for Mr. H. E. Annett, a var. of Enodia ht/peranthus from 

 Oxshott, nearly approaching the extreme form var. arete ; a male specimen of tiie 

 large earwig, Labldura. riparia, taken by Major Robertson at Pokesdown, August, 

 1900 ; and coloured drawings of (1) Argymiis Paphia, $ , a pale yellow var., (2) 

 Epiiiephele tithonus, ? , a xanthic var., both from specimens taken in the IVew Forest. 

 Mr. Kirkaldy, numerous species of MiridcB = CapsidcB, of the genera (1) Orecto- 

 dorus, most of which are ant-mimics, and (2) Resthenia. Mr. West, of Greenwich, 

 long series of three closely allied and obscure species of Romoptera, Acocephalus 

 hrunneo-bifasciatus and A.Jlavo-strlatus, both from Catford, from roots of grass on 

 waste land, and A. albifrons, from under furze bushes, Blackheath. Mr. Kemp, living 

 nymphs of the Odonata, Sympetrum striolatum, Gomphus viilgatlssimHs, and 

 Calopteryx virgo,a\\ from the New Forest. A discussion ensued as to the area of 

 distribution of the immigration of Colias Hyale and C. Edusa during tlie present 

 year. — Hy. J. Tubnee, Eon. Sec. 



FURTHER NOTES ON SOUTH AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 

 BY FRANCES BAKEETT ; EDITED BT C. U. BAEKETT, V.P.E.S. 



(^Continued from p. 195). 



Pleretes bellatrix, Dalm. — " Harry brought the caterpillar home just about to 

 turn to pupa. The colours of the moth are carried out in the caterpillar, and can 

 be seen in the chrysalis. Its food plant is a bush with bunches of light scarlet 

 blossoms. It sometimes climbs larger trees, and is called here honeysuckle ; but it 

 is not very much like a honeysuckle, the blossoms form a bunch, and are on a spike 

 rather than a whorl. The leaves are dark and the flowers very bright, singularly 

 agreeing with the colour of the moth." 



[No figure of this larva has yet reached me, but the pupa is exceedingly pretty 

 — brilliantly glossy orange-yellow, with a row of large black spots on each dorsal, 

 and around each abdominal segment, a cluster of smaller spots at the back of the 

 head and on the thorax, smaller ones upon the covers of the legs, and the wing 

 covers broadly edged with black, and divided lengthwise with the same. All these 

 markings, willi the remaining surface, are, as I have already said, shining like glass, 

 and no roughness nor sculpture is to be seen upon it. The cremaster is scarcely ex- 



