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Brazilian, but there was nothing quite like it in the Natural History Museum. 

 Mr. A. E. Gibbs, a case containing a series of Parnassius apollo taken by him this 

 year in the Swiss Jura, at 3,300 feet, and at Eclepens. He pointed out that the 

 species in the Jura showed a tendency toward the form known as ab. p-seudonomion, 

 and this was more strongly marked in examples from the lower level at Eclepens. 

 Mr. W. Gr. Sheldon, a series of characteristic butterflies collected by him in June 

 of this year, at Herculesbad, South-eastern Hungary. 'Ihey included examples of 

 Neptis lucilla, N. aceris, Melanargia galatea var. procida, Erebia medusa, var. 

 psodea, and Pararge roxelana as described by him in the current volume of the 

 " Entomologist." Mr. H. J. Turner, (a) two extremely small Cupido minimus 

 taken with normal-sized examples near Winchester on June 12th, 1909, the 

 expanse of wings being 15 mm ; (6) an example of Anthrocera achilleie., in which 

 the blotches on the fore-wings were all fused together, giving at a casual glance the 

 appearance of a small A, captured at Grex, Ain, France, on August 11th, 1909 ; 

 (c) a white aberration, ab. alba, of Rumicia phlseas, taken at Brasted, Kent, on 

 August 28th ; and id) examples of Heodes mrgaureai var. miegii, taken at Zermatt 

 in early August, this form being said to be unusual outside Spain ; the $ 's — 

 var. zermattensis — were of the usual form found at Zermatt. Mr. Gr. C. Champion, 

 specimens of Melanophila acuminata, De Geer, Criocephalus ferus, Muls., and 

 other Coleoptera found on pines near Woking. He called attention to the numerous 

 interesting forms that had been found on pines during recent jears, not only in the 

 south of England, but in Scotland also. The Buprestid had probably not been 

 searched for previously at the right season — during the driest time at the end of the 

 suuiuicr and early autumn— at a period when few insects are to be found. He 

 stated that he had met with various other Buprestids, both in Spain and Ti'opical 

 America (e.g. Buprestis sanguinea, F., and Actenodes chalgbeitarsis, Chevr.), in the 

 dry season or when the trees had been scorched by fire. Mr. Norman H. Joy, the fol- 

 lowing new British Coleoptera : Epipeda nigricans, Thoms., Pityogenes trepanatus, 

 Noerdl., both taken at Blair AthoU, Perthshire, Sept., 1909 ; Lathrobium dilutum, Er., 

 captured at Dalwhinnie, Inverness-shire, September, 1909 ; Cryptophagus pallidas 

 var. argenteus, var. nov., differing from the type form in having silvery pubescence ; 

 he also exhibited Phdouthus trossulus, Nordm., from Dalwhinnie ; the genitalia of 

 GnatlioHcus nidivola, Joy, and Q. rotundatus, Kugel., and of Anisotoma anglica, 

 Eye, and A. cinnamomea, Kv.; and a series of Sunius lyonessius, Joy, from the 

 Scilly Isles, pointing out the structural characters by which this species may be 

 distinguished from 6'. angustatas. Mr. W. J. Lucas, a very fine ? example of 

 Sympetrum fonscolotubii, Selys, exhibited on behalf of Mr. F. W. Edwards, of 

 Cambridge, who took it on Septeuiber 24th, 19u8, at Frensham Pond, in Surrey. 

 Probably this species is always an immigrant with us, and but few specimens have 

 been recorded. Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., three species of Planema 

 {Acrxinx) with mimetic species of Pseudacrsea {Nymphalini) , captured on the 

 same day near Entebbe, by Mr. C. A. Wiggins, F.E.S. The Pseudacrsea were of 

 two species, but the sexes of one were entirely different in pattern, mimicking two 

 species of Planema. — H. Rowland-Brown, Hon. Secretary. 



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