104 [April' 



1902. The similarity of form and coloui'ing constituted a probable case of protectiTe 

 resemblance. Major Neville Manders, two specimens of an undeseribed species of 

 Atella from (Jejlon ; and remarked that it was a very local insect, anel only found 

 in the Nitre Cave district, one of the localities most remote from civilization in the 

 island. It was probably a well-marked local race of A. Alcippe. Mr. ¥. B. 

 Jennings, British specimens of Ileiniptera-lletei'uplera, viz.: — two females of 

 Uri/mus pUipes, Fieb., VL rare species of the family Lyyctidce, which were found 

 among dead leaves on a hillside near Croydon in September, liJUl ; and the black 

 aberration of Miris laviijatus, L., recordetl by him m the Ent. Alo. Mag. for iyU2, 

 p. 22-4. I'liw species of Miris and the allied genus of CapsidcB, Mcyalucerrea, are 

 ordinarily grass-green or pale yellowish. Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.fi.S., two cases of 

 arctic butterllies. The iirst contained specimens from a collection fornieil by Mr. 

 David llanbury on the arctic coast of Nortii America, in the region where the Parry 

 expedition was lost. Of the butterllies observed — filteen species in all — two, in- 

 eluding the Colias Jiouthii had not been taken since they were iirst described by 

 Curtis sixty years ago. This species, in comparison with L'o/ias Ilecla, Lcf., is un- 

 doubtedly distinct in both sexes, but it is most remarkable that the male in 

 coloration and markings appears to approximate more closely to the characters usual 

 in the females of other members of the genus. The collection contained nothing 

 new, but included the rare and curious Aryyiuiis iinproba, Butler, a remarkable 

 aberi-ation of A. Chariciea, tSchn., in which the black netting marks were resolved 

 into smeared black lines ; A. pales, for the Iirst time from this region, precisely simi- 

 lar to the form taken on the east of the Lena River in Siberia ; and Cuenonympha 

 tiphuH, closely resembling the form from Kamtschatka. The second case contained 

 specimens from a collection made between Jakutsk and Verchojausk in north-eastern 

 Siberia at about the same latitude, 67", as the preceding exhibit. They included 

 many species which occur in tlie western palaearctic regions, and most remarkable of 

 all, J^eptis Lucilla. I'arnassius JJclius, which Mr. Elwes said was the first I'artiassius 

 lie had seen from within the Arctic Circle, and Culias vi/iiiensis, Men., an insect 

 peculiar to Siberia, showing remarkable female aberrant forms. Mr. C. O. Water- 

 house gave an account of a uest of a bee, Trigoua collina, recently received from 

 Malacca. Specimens were exhibited, as were also males and a worker of the much 

 smaller species, Trigona rujicornis. Smith, received at the same time from Singapore, 

 and sent by Mr. H. N. Kidley. Mr. W. J. Kaye, two drawers containing Uaname, 

 Ithomiine and Heliconiine species from British Gruiana, all of similar coloration, and 

 forming a MiiUerian association with a black hind-wing. A diagrammatic table was 

 shown with the exhibit, which included the following species — Melincea Crameri, M. 

 mneine, M. egi>m,JI. n. sp., Ceratinia veritabiUs, Veratinia sp., Mechanitis dorysstit ; 

 Lycorea Ceres, L. pasinuulia, Jle/icuuius vetustus, II. nuinc/la, H. syivana, Eiteides 

 n. sp. ; and iStalachtis Calliope. 



The following papers were communicated : — " On the llypsid Orcnua Ueilemera, 

 Hiibner, by Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S." " An Account of a Collection 

 of Rhopalocera made in the Anambara Creek in Nigeria, West Africa, by Mr. P. J. 

 Lathy." " Some Notes on the habits of Nanophyes Durieui, Lucas, as observed in 

 Central Spain by Mr. G. C. Champion, F.Z.S., and Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., 

 with a description of the larva and pupa by Dr. T. A. Chapman." 



