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Africa. — Mr. W. A. Lamborn supplemented his previous account of 

 two families of bred L. arf/ia by referring to a short series of 

 females taken at Oni between April 1st, 1910, and January 25th, 

 1911, a period inclading a whole wet season and a part of two dry 

 seasons. Russian Pahnassius apollo. — Mr. J. A. Simes exhibited a 

 short series of P. aixdlo from the Government of Viatka, with a 

 series from the Alps of Dauphiny and Switzerland for comparison. 

 The Cocoons of Epicephala chalybacma, Meyr. — Prof. Poulton 

 showed an enlarged photograph of the cocoons of K. chahjhacma upon 

 the leaves of Tamarind, Foinciana jmlclwrruita, taken at Pusa on May 

 31st, 1911, by Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher. A Richly-colourrd 

 Example ok Planema arenaria, E. M. Sharpe, from t^e Sesse Islands 

 IN THE Victoria Nyanza. — Prof. Poulton exhibited a S specimen of 

 PL arenaria, taken by Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter on Bugalla, one of the 

 Sesse Islands. The Effect of Hot and Cold Climate upon the 

 Colours cf Rumicia phl^as, L. — Prof. Poulton exhibited thirty- 

 seven examples of R. phlaeas, captured on the same bank at Cerne 

 Abbas, Dorset, in the hot August of 1911 and the cold August 

 of 1912, by Dr. R. C. L. Perkins. Eight out of the fourteen males 

 captured in 1911 were much darker than any of the eight males 

 captured in 1912. The copper tint of the eight 1912 females was more 

 brilliantly lustrous than in the seven 1911 females. Polyommatus 

 ICARUS Females. — Mr. T. H. L. Grosvenor, who was present as a 

 visitor, exhibited a series of P. icarns females principally from various 

 localities on the North Downs, arranged according to the year and the 

 emergence to which they belonged. Ruralis Aberrations. — The Rev. 

 G. Wheeler exhibited, on behalf of Mr. R. M. Prideaux, some 

 aberrational forms of liHinicia phlaeas and three ? " Blues," consisting 

 of one very dark specimen of Jr/riades coridon and two of A. thetis, 

 one being of the ab. urania, Gerh., and the other having the fore- 

 wings dark and the hindwings symmetrically of a pale fawn-colour. 

 Females of Agriades thetis and Polyommatus icarus. — The Rev. G. 

 Wheeler also exhibited the specimens of A. thetis ab. urania, Gerh., to 

 which he had referred at a former meeting. Also a series of blue $ s, 

 most of them entirely blue, taken this spring at Notgrove in the 

 Cotswolds, and for comparison the bluest ? he had taken there 

 previously, in which the blue scaling was less than the least blue of 

 this spring's captures. Species of the Genus Teracolus. — Dr. F. A. 

 Dixey exhibited specimens of Teracolns ep/n/ia, Klug., and some allied 

 forms, together with drawings of their respective scent-scales. The 

 following papers were read : — " On some new and little-known 

 Bornean Lycaenidae, with a revision of the Thecline genus Thamala, 

 Moore," by J. C. Moulton, F.L.S., Curator of the Sarawak Museum. 

 " Descriptions of South American Micro-Lepidoptera," by E. 

 Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S. " Synoptic Table of the British species of 

 Aleuonota and Atheta, Th.," by Malcolm Cameron, M.B., R.N. 

 "Comparative Notes on Chilades (jalba. Lea., and <J. plriala, Gr.-Gr., 

 by G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. "Notes on the Specific 

 Distinction of certain species in the orhituliif; and pheretiades section of 

 the Genus Plebeins," by G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 Annual Meeting. — January loth — Mr. J. E. Collin, one of the 

 Auditors, read the Treasurer's Balance Sheet for 1912, showing a 

 balance of £16 18s. 9d. On the proposal of the Rev. F. E. Lowe, 



