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possibly be a hybrid of these two species. Species of Liodes. — He 

 also showed Liodes stoiocori/phe, Joy, <y , taken by Mr. W. E. Sharp, at 

 Forres, 1910, as well as its near allies for comparison, viz: — Liodes 

 picea, 111., taken by Mr. Tomlin and Mr. Joy at Dalwhinnie, 

 Inverness-shire, in September, when the larva was also found feeding 

 on a small underground fungus, L. dvbia, King, and its various 

 varieties, and L. ahjirica, Rye, which is almost certainly only another 

 variety of this species. Parthenogenesis in Lasius niger. — Mr. W. C. 

 Crawley exhibited a mixed colony of Lasius Kiiibratus and L. nicfer. 

 This colony consists of a J L. uinbratus, which was accepted in 1908 by 

 a queenless colony of L. nif/er. During 1909 and 1910 only nii/er ^ s 

 came to maturity in the nest ; those, therefore, that hatched in 1910 

 must have been from parthenogenetic eggs laid by the ni/ie7- ^ s. Over a 

 dozen of these latter were dissected, and found to contain no receptacnlum 

 seininis. Melanic Lithosia. — Mr. E. A. Cockayne exhibited a melanic 

 specimen of Lithosia deplana, S , taken in Surrsy last July. Sicilian 

 Rhopalocera. — Mr. J. Piatt Barrett exhibited species of Sicilian butter- 

 flies taken this year in contrast with corresponding British species, 

 Kacldoe cardamines and E. damone, Go7iepteri/x rhanini and G. deopatra 

 Hipparchia semelc and var. ahiirica. Small southern forms were also 

 exhibited of E. cardamines and Leptidia sinapis. Alpine Lycaenids. — 

 Dr. Chapman exhibited living larvfe of Albulina pheretes, and a living 

 imago of Latiorina orbitiiliis, and said that his former suggestion that 

 Albulina {Lycacna) pheretes had probably a larva without a honey gland 

 was incorrect. The larvae of J. pheretes possesses a honey gland and 

 fans. Two Tokticidae new to Science. — Mr. J. H. Durrant described 

 and exhibited two new British species of BJiyacVonia, Hb. { = Iietinia 

 Gn.; Evetria, Hb., Meyr.), viz., Hhrjacionia pnrdeyi, s]^. n., taken among 

 Scots firs at Folkestone at the end of July, 1911, by Mr. W. Purdey, & 

 very distinct species intermediate between sijlcestrana, Crt., and duplana 

 Hb. ; and E. loyaea, sp. n., from Forres, Scotland (W. Salvage and H. 

 McArthur), closely allied to diiplana, Hb., and postieana, Ztst. Coliads 

 from Berkshire. — Mr. J. H. Durrant also exhibited eighteen specimens 

 of Colias taken by himself in a field of lucerne at Barcote, near Far- 

 ringdon, Berks, from September -Ith-lOth, 1892. They comprised both 

 hyale (2) and ediisa (14) and two aberrations of the latter, one of a very 

 light orange colour (ab. helicina) and the other a fine ab. helice. All 

 the specimens of C. edxsa were of a yellowish-orange tint. Sympetrum 

 fonscolombii. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited specimens of Sympetrum 

 fouscolombii, taken at a pond in the south of the New Forest, 

 August 4th, 7th, 8th, 25th and 29th, all but one being males. 

 Separation of the Sexes in Hypolimnas misippus. — Dr. F. A. Dixey 

 read a letter received by him from Mr. E. A. Agar, of Dominica, West 

 Indies, on the subject of the " Separation of the Sexes of Hypolimnas 

 misippus," the writer remarking that in that island, although in similar 

 localities, the 5 remains on the coast while the <? is to be met with 

 some distance inland. The former is scarcely ever to be seen in 

 company with the 3 of its own species, though it flies with Danaida 

 plexippus, of which it is a mimic. All-female Batches of Acraea 

 encedon, L, bred in the Lagos District. — Prof. Poulton also exhibited 

 examples from three of the all-female broods obtained by Mr. W. A. 

 Lamborn, these three sets being chosen because they prove that the 

 unisexual batches are not necessarily associated with either of the 



