] 24 [May, 1905. 



Queensland, illiistrai iui; the uso of " diroctive " markings in the Riiopalocora in 

 influencing their enemies to atlaek non-vital parts. Mr. G-. J. Arrow, an example 

 of Ceratopte.rus stahll, Westw., a beelle from Australia possessing notable powers of 

 crepitation. Mr. A. IT. Jones and Mr. H. Rowland- Hrown showed a series of 

 Hrebia alecto (glaciaJixJ, var. nlchoUi., Oberth., taken by them at about 80U0 ft. at 

 Campiglio, South Tyrol, with specimens of Dasi/dia tenebraria, var. wockearia, 

 caught in the company of the Erebias in the same localities. Mr. Jones aleo 

 exhibited examples of Erehia iiie/ai from the Parnassus Mountains, Greece, for 

 comparison, and fine forms of butlerflies found at Mendel, near Botzen. Mr. W. J. 

 Kaye, a series of bred Morpho adonis from British Guiana, with the very rare 

 dimorphic bhick-and-wliite female. Dr. F. A. Dixey, the social web and pupal 

 shells of Eucheira soaialis, Westw., together with specimens of the perfect insect, 

 being the actual nest from Mexico described and figured by Westwood in the 

 Transactions for 1830. The President read a note on experiments conducted by 

 him to ascertain the vitality of pupa) subjected to submersion. Mr. II. A. Byatt, 

 read a paper on " Pxeudacrxa poggei and Limiias chrgslppus ; the Numerical 

 Proportion of Mimic to Model." .Mr. G. Bethune-Baker contributed " A Mono- 

 graph of the Genus Ogyris." — H. Rowland Bkown, Son. Secretary. 



ALGERIAN MICRO LE PID O PT ER A. 

 BY THE RT. HON. LORD WALSIN'GHAM, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., &c. 

 {Continued from page 41). 



2848 : 1.— Aproaerema deverijae, sp. n. 



Antennae black, annulate with pale ochreous. Palpi whitish ochreous, the 

 terminal joint with a black line along it and a black ring before its apex. Head 

 whitish ochreous. Thorax yellowish ochreous. Forewings at the base yellow- 

 ochreous, a narrow line of black scab s along the costa, another on the upper edge 

 of the cell, below which the cell itself is pale whitish ochreous ; from a little beyond 

 the remainder of the wing-surface is thickly suffused and speckled with black, the 

 black scales being concentrated in an elongated spot on the middle of the wing, 

 followed by a smaller one at the end of the cell, with some indication of a third in 

 the fold below the first ; the ground-colour underlying the black speckling is pale 

 whitish ochreous, as on the upper half of the cell from the base, and is fairly con- 

 spicuous on the small patch at the commencement of the costal cilia and in another 

 opposite to it on the dorsum ; a line of black scales runs through the whitish 

 ochreous cilia which are also dusted with black at their base. Exp. al., 13 mm. 

 Hindwings bluish grey ; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen shining steely grey. 

 Legs whitish ochreous, the tarsi shaded with black. 



Type, c? (88773) ; ? (97119). Mus. Wlsin. 



Hah.: ALGERIA — El-Kantara — 5. VII. 1903 ; Hammam-es- 

 Salahin, Larva Deverra scoparia, 22.1. excl. 23.1 V. — 10. VIII. 1904. 

 Twenty-two specimens, 



Two larvae found feeding in stems of Deverra {Pituranthos) 

 scoparia on May 8tli, the type emerged on July 5th, 1903. 



