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clothed above entirely with sooty-black hairs, and I have little doubt that such 

 specimens will be found. For the ordinary I'^nglish trinimerana auct. the 

 warnQJacdbi n. n. is suggested, this being the form recorded by Kirby as " capta 

 a D, Jueoho I'rimmer " and also liis var. /3 " lecta mense Maio." His type of 

 trinimerana captured " Augusto medio 1799" is, as I have previously recorded, 

 a specimen of the second brood of sjiitiif/eraK. — K. C.L. Perkins, 4 Thurlestone 

 Road, Newton Abbot: Januari/ \iJtJt, 1921. 



Monstrous form of Salius exaltatus. — In this Magazine for 1914, p. 219, I 

 described a monstrous form of Salius exaltatus, of which two examples were 

 captured at Eovey Tracey, and 1 referred to the fact that Mr. A. H. Ilanim liad 

 taken a similarly abnormal Pompilid. Recently I have seen Mr. Hamni's 

 specimen, and it is the same species and was captured in the same neighbour- 

 hood as those taken by myself, but many years before. That such a monstrositj' 

 should either persist or reappear is very remarkable. Tlie great development 

 of the eyes might suggest a cross between Salius and Asfata boops, whicli is 

 found in the locality, but in no other respect is there any approach to the latter 

 genus. — R. C. L. Pkrkixs : Januanj V)th, 1921. 



Ilcuieuj. 



" lkpinoptera of the congo, being a systematic list of the 

 Butterflies and Moths collected by the American Museum op 

 Natural History Congo Expedition, together with descriptions of 

 SOME HITHERTO uNDESCRiBED SPECIES." [Bulletin of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, Vol. xliii. Art. vi, pp. 109-369, with 9 Plates (vi-xiv) and 

 9 Text-figures. New York. Issued December 4th, 1920.] By \Y. J. 

 Holland, LL.D. 



The collection upon which this paper is based is stated to be one of the 

 largest that has been made in recent years in the Congo Region, it being par- 

 ticularly rich in Nymphalidae and other conspicuous forms. But little 

 attention, howevei", was paid to tlie moths, and scarcely any collecting was 

 done at night. Altogether, about 9000 specimens were obtained by the 

 Expedition, representing 725 species or varieties — 482 Rhopahcera (37 new, 

 with two new genera) and 243 Heterocera (40 new). The chief localities 

 worked are : — Medje, a point near the Nepoki River, in the heart of the forest; 

 Niangara, on the Uelle River; and Faradje, upon the Dungu, an eastern 

 affluent of the Uelle, the dates extending over the years 1910-1912. As a 

 whole, the material examined is said to have a distinct W. African facies, 

 though Niangara and Faradje are places not far distant from tlie E. African or 

 Abyssinian region, which sends a long, narrow, westward projection south of 

 the Sahara towards the mouth of the Senegal. The seven plates devoted to 

 the butterflies illustrate species of the genera Cymotho'e, Precis, Euphaedra, 

 Neptis, Telipna, Diestogyna, etc. Dr. Holland has already contributed numerous 

 papers on African Lepidopfera to various scientific journals, and his Catalogue 

 of the African Ilesperiidae (189C) is still a useful work of reference^ 

 Dr. Aurivillius not including them in bis " Rhopalocera Aethiopica." 



