84 THE entomologist's record. 



The Hospital, Port Sudan; Messrs. P. A. Buxton, M.B.O.U., Fairhill, 

 Tonbridge, and Trinity College, Cambridge ; A. Noakes, The Hill, 

 Witley, Surrey; Norman D. Riley, 94, Drakefield Road, Upper Tooting, 

 S.W., and British Museum (Natural History), S. Kensington, S.W.;. 

 and H. S. Wallace, 17, Kingsley Place, Heaton-on-Tyne. Arctic 

 Dragonflies. — Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited a specimen of Sninatochlora 

 alpestrls from Porsanger Fjord, east of North Cape, also a specimen of 

 Aescfina caerulea { — borealis), from the same locality, both taken by 

 Mr. W. G. Sheldon, in 1912. Eurytela hiarbas, Drury, and E. 

 DRYOPE, Cramer. — Professor Poulton drew attention to a letter he had 

 received nearly two years ago from Mr. G. F. Leigh, describing the 

 breeding of E. dryope and drawing the inference that the species was 

 distinct from hiarbas. Mullerian mimicry between Australian 

 Bees. — Professor Poulton exhibited on behalf of Dr. R. C. L. Perkins 

 a male of Prosoph nuhilosa, Cock., (Prosopidae), and of a species of 

 Halictiis {Andrenidae), captured by him in the Cairns district of North 

 Queensland (July 1904), the hard glistering yellow mark on the black 

 scutellum and post-scutellum of the Prosopis, and that on its lateral 

 prothoracic tubercles being mimicked by a yellow pubescence 

 occupying the same positions in the Halictus. A new species of 

 Argynnis. — The Rev. G. Wheeler exhibited two specimens of a, 

 new Arfiynnis, discovered in June last by Mr. Harold Powell, 

 F.E.S., at Lambessa in Algeria. Mons. Oberthiir named it anreuana. 

 Cocoons of Norasuma kolga, H. Druce, spun under natural con- 

 ditions. — Dr. W. A. Lamborn observed that some cocoons formed by 

 larvae of this species in captivity had been previously exhibited by 

 Professor Poulton. The specimens now exhibited were formed by wild 

 larvae under leaves, and were found in the clearing at Oni Camp. 

 They gave a better idea as to the mimicry of Braconid cocoons by the 

 formation of little bosses of yellow silk. Ants, and a new myrmeco- 

 PHiLous species. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited (1) a small incipient 

 colony of Cantponotiis ligniperdns taken at Yvorne, Switzerland; (2) 

 Specimens of a Proctotrupid new to science, Loxotropa donisthorpei,. 

 Kieffer, taken in a nest of La.'^iiix jiainis at Blackgang Chine, Isle of 

 Wight ; (3) A specimen of Camponotus abdo»iinalis var. atricepa, Smdt., 

 an American species, captured alive in his room on his return from 

 Weybridge. Hybrids and second broods. — Mr. L. W. Newman 

 exhibited (1) a long and varied series of the hybrid Smeriiithinf 

 ocellatus 3- X Amorpha populi 2 , bred September, 1912, out-of- 

 doors, from a pairing obtained June, 1912, the larvfe pupating in 

 July and early August. (2) Living specimens of the hybrid Zonosonia 

 pendiilaria $ x ammlata [omicrnnaria) 2 . (3) A living 2 specimen 

 of Metrocanipa viarf/aritaria, taken at rest in Bexley Woods, October 

 14th, 1912, which points to a second emergence of this species. (4) A 

 2 specimen of S. ocellatufi bred out-of-doors, on September 14th, from 

 larva which pupated in June, 1912. Nonagria dissoluta. — Mr. H. 

 M. Edelsten exhibited specimens of Nonat/ria dissolata and var. 

 arundineta from East Kent, bred during August, 1912, 75 per 

 cent, from this locality being dissoluta. The following papers 

 were read: — "Notes sur quelques especes des Lncanides dans 

 les collections du British Museum et de I'Universite de Oxford," 

 par M. Henri Boileau, F.E.S. " Synaposematic resemblance 

 between Acraeine larvae," by G. D. H. Carpenter, B.A., M.B., F.E.S. 



