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THE ENTOMOLOGIST S RFCORD. 



aposeme, that butterflies with red on the forewings were nasty, and 

 the other of whom had learned from tackling the butterfly with a blue 

 aposeme, that butterflies with blue on the hindwings were nasty. 



Mr. Marshall lectured with excellent humour and knowledge, 

 and gained at once the sympathy of his listeners. He began by 

 telling the Fellows that he had not the slightest knowledge that 

 any such butterflies as those he had drawn existed ; he did, how- 

 ever, show two butterflies that had certain aposemes, that lived in 

 Peru, and a third butterfly which had in a crude way both aposemes, 

 but " did not live within a thousand miles of Peru," but which, we 

 understood, had been taken as the pieces in a previous game, to 

 prove the effectiveness of the double aposeme to a species living 1000 

 miles from Peru, and supposed to warrant it against the attacks 

 of birds that lived in Peru, and had learned the dangers and nasti 

 ness of the species with the single aposemes living in Peru, all of 

 which struck us as very funny. 



In answer to a question as to whether he had met, in his experi- 

 ence, in the tropics or elsewhere, any three species, living in the same 

 place, at the same time, and with similar habits, one of which bore 

 the possible relation of the double aposeme to the other two with 

 single aposemes, he stated that he had not. He further stated that 

 one of the reasons for his lecture, was that he wished to prove that even 

 if it were granted that these things did happen, i.e. (such insects did 

 occur together), in nature, then the chances of the success of the double 

 aposeme would not be what it had been argued it would. 



We were sorry that the President of the Entomological Society 

 was not on the floor of the house to finish the game properly, but 

 really it did not much matter. What we do want seriously to ask the 

 Fellows of the Entomological Society, is whether these pseudo-entomo- 

 logical discussions could not be left to the brainy philosophers to fight 

 out elsewhere, whilst the meeting-room was available for matters really 

 pertaining to entomology, and entomological science. It is one of the 

 greatest pleasures in life for an entomologist to hear a man's first-hand 

 observations of species that he has watched in the field, mimics or 

 otherwise, but it is surely high time we clarified our minds and 

 distinguished fact from fiction, froth from fluid, entomology from 

 entomological word-fights. 



The South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies holds its next 

 Congress at Winchester, from June 9th- 12th. The retiring President. 

 Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.R., F.R.S., etc., will open the congress, and 

 the four days will be occupied with various matters of Scientific 

 mterest. particularly those relating to Hampshire. Particulars froni 

 Rev. H. Ashington Bullen, Englemoor, Heathside Road. Woking. 



Dr. Chapman has discovered that the foodplant of l.atiorina 

 (irhitidiis is Andrasare (Grriioria) n'taliaiia. Common ii,s this species is 

 in the high Alps, the dectection of the foodplant has hitherto baffled 

 all observers. 



Mr. .7. H. Watson describes how a consignment of the cocoons of 

 Attociis eduardsii, recently sent him from Calcutta, was "opened by 

 the postal authorities, the cocoons tipped out and tumbled back again 

 anyhow, not packed as they were before, the lid pressed down tight, 

 and so crushing the cocoons that only four out of twenty were unhurt. 



