24 • [January, 1909. 



second brood. Dr. Karl Jordan exhibited examples of Charaxes zoolina and its 

 nearest allies, hetsimianralca and hetanimina from Madagascar, zoolina and neanthes 

 from East Africa, phanara and ekinJcei from West Africa, Jcahlendi and homeyeri 

 from West Africa. The exhibit confirmed tlie result of Mr. G-. F. Leigh's breed- 

 ing experiment mentioned by Professor E. B. Poulton at the last meeting. Dr. F. A. 

 Dixey, specimens of the genera Colsenis, Heliconius, and Pereide, to illustrate a 

 mimetic relation between C. telesiphe. Hew., H. telesiphe, Doubl., and P. antodyca, 

 Boisd. The Rev. G. Wheeler, a pair of Melitsea dictynna var. dictynnoldes, Horm., 

 received from Herr Hormuzaki. Tliey are the converse of M. britomartix, having 

 the upper side of dictynna but tlie under much nearer to that of parthenie. 



Mr. Edward Meyrick communicated a paper entitled " Descriptions of Micro- 

 Lepidoptera from Bolivia and Peru." — H. Rowland-Beown, Hon. Secretary. 



ON THE BRITISH SPECIES OF PHOR.i (Paet II). 

 BY JOHN H. WOOD, M.B. 



{Continued from Vol. sliv, p. 254). 



SECTION C. 



1 (3fi) Costal frinye short. 



The species under this head have, for the most part, a strong family likeness. 

 In a few of them, as oeqnalix, minor, and to a less extent in propinqua, sardifrons, 

 and off) nix, the costa is obviously shortish, at least in tlie male, placing them on the 

 borderland, as it were, between Sections C and D, but their affinities are so clearly 

 with this group, that it is best to locate them here. It is interesting too to note 

 that these somewhat exceptional species are among the smallest forms in the group, 

 showing that the length of the costa is governed in the main by the size of the insect. 



2 (15) Meso-pleurw bristly. 



3 (12) HaUeres black or sometimes dusky yellow {ciliata^. 



4 (11) Frons at least as broad as long ; dull. 



5 (G) Fore metatarsi thickened in both sexes, as wide as the tibias. 



<? ? • Thorax and abdomen black, the former with an obscure reddish tinge, and 

 yellow postaiar calli ( ? ) ; frons not much broader than long, 4 fairly large and 

 equal supra-antennal bristles, the upper ones much wider apart than the lower, 

 palpi yellow ; wings nearly clear, thin veins fine but distinct, costa barely to 

 middle of wing, 1 longer than 2, but not longer than 2 + 3, inner branch of second 

 thick vein turned up almost at right angles to the costa ; legs yellow suffused 

 with brown , tibial cilia very small and crowded ; abdomen ( 5' ) with pale 

 margins to the segments and the belly yellow ; hypopygium large, the black 

 ventral process ending in two narrow and widely spread arms, the yellow anal 

 organ large and depressed i mm. crassipes, n. sp. 



6 (5) Fore metatarsi simple. 



7 (8) Inner branch of second thick vein joins the costa at much the same angle as 



does the first thick vein. 

 ^ 5 . The rax and abdomen black, meso-pleural bristles equal, or nearly so ; frons 

 rather broader than long, supra-antennal bristles of moderate size, the under pair 

 not half the size of the upper, antennae of ordinary size, palpi small and yellow ; 



