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Morley (n.g. ets.), ^ and 9 bred from F. fusca nest from Porlock, Julj 29th, 1907, 

 and Pachylomma buecala, taken at St. Helen's, Isle of Wight, hovering over nests of 

 Lanius nifjer. Mr. W. J. Lucas, a male and a female example of Ascalaphus cocca- 

 jus, and a pair of the same insect near the var. leucocilius with the golden-yellow 

 markings replaced by white. They were taken by the Rev. F. D. Morice, with other 

 specimens, in June of this year at Geneva. Mr. G. Bethune-Baker, a series of Chry- 

 xophanus dorcas, •which occurs in North America from Labrador and Alaska down to 

 Michigan in marshy localities, and pointed out the peculiar characteristic of the 

 egg, which was more Thecloid than Chrysophanid ; he also exhibited a finely 

 radiated example of Chrysophanus hypophlxas, another North American species. ' 

 Mr. G. F. Leigh, the ? parent and twenty-one specimens of the offspring of 

 Charaxex zoolina neanthes. This result was obtained from ova deposited by the 

 zoolina form of the ? , and produced four <? (J s and two ? ? s like the parent, and 

 fifteen S S^ find nine ? ? s of the neanthes form. Last year the same result was 

 obtained in a smaller degree, but the eggs on that occasion were obtained from the 

 neanthes form of the ? . The proof by breeding from ova that these two forms are 

 one species has cleared up two or three other similar cases of Butterflies occurring 

 in other parts of the world, that have forms of totally different colour, but are 

 structurally the same. With regard to the examples exhibited, Mr. Leigh said that 

 although the zoolina form are consistent in both the wet and dry seasons, there are 

 two quite distinct forms of the neanthes variety. Mr. H. Eltringham, M.A.,F.L.S., 

 read a paper on " Experiments in Edibility with Larvae and Lizards." Mr. F. 

 Enock, F.L.S., " New British Mymaridse," and illustrated his remarks with a 

 number of lantern slides of both sexes of the species discovered and described by 

 hira. The following papers were also read or communicated : — " On the Characters 

 and Eelationships of the less-known groups of Lnmellicorn Coleoptera, with 

 Descriptions of new species of Hybosorims, &c.," by Gilbert J. Arrow, F.E.S. 

 " A list of Chrysids taken by the writer in two visits to Jaffa, Jerusalem, and 

 Jericho, with descriptions of new species," by the Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., F.E.S. 

 " A Revision of the African Species of the genus Lycxnesthes," by G. Bethune- 

 Baker, F.L.S.— H. Rowland Bbown, Hon. Secretary. 



QELECHIA riCINELLA, Dgl., CONSPECIFIC WITH 

 O. LEVCOMELANELLA, Z. 



BT EUSTACE E. BANKES, M.A., F.E.S. 



Oelechia vicinella was described by Douglas [Trans. Ent. See, 

 Lond., U.S., i, 102 (1851)] from " two specimens in the cabinet of 

 Mr. Stainton, taken by Mr. Jobson, near Belfast." In 1894 I found, 

 in the Stainton British collection (then happily still intact), three 

 specimens standing in the space allotted to ' vicinella, Dougl.,' of 

 which the first and second, both labelled with printed numbers {viz., 



