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Hiibn. A Family of Papilio dardanus, Brown, bred from eggs laid 

 BY A PLANEMoiDEs, Trimen, FEMALE.— Pi'of. Poulton read exti'acts from 

 letters received from Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter, telling of his success in 

 obtaining, for the first time, fertile ova from a planemuides female of 

 P. dardanus. Three jilaneiiioides and seven liippocoon females had been 

 bred from these eggs. Wings of Danaine and Euploeine butterflies 

 killed by birds in Ceylon. — Mr. J. C. F. Fryer exhibited a large 

 series of the wings of Danaine and Euploeine butterflies from Ceylon, 

 remains of those insects which had been observed by him to be eaten 

 by birds, mainly by the so-called " Wood-Swallow," ArtatiiHs fusciis ; 

 also a few specimens of the same butterflies which had been killed by 

 Asilidai', these being distinguished by the fact that the bodies were 

 nearly or quite intact. The following papers were read : — " On the 

 British MyretophiUdae," by F. W. Edwards, F.E.S. " Culicidae from 

 Papua," by Prank H. Taylor, F.E.S. " Pupal Coloration in Papilio 

 pohjtes," and " The larval habits of the Tineid moth Mdasina encn/a, 

 Meyr.," by J. C. F. Fryer, M.A., F.E.S. 



June Ath. — Royal Patronage. — The President announced that 

 His Majesty the King had been graciously pleased to become Patron 

 of the Society. The death of Lord Avebury, the oldest Fellow of 

 the Society, was announced, and also that of Mr. Philip de la 

 Garde. Election. — Capt. F. Sitwell, Wooler, Northumberland, 

 was elected a Fellow of the Society. A Scarce Aberration of 

 Rhynchites aeneovtrens. — Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited a 

 blue variety of the female of Hhynchitcs aeneorirena recently taken 

 at Burnham Beeches. Tatochila immaculata, Rob. — Dr. F. A. 

 Dixey exhibited a male and female specimen of Tatochila imma- 

 culata, Rober, with a pair of T. sticpnadice, Stdgr., for comparison. 

 Ants and their Guests. — Mr. Donisthorrpe exhibited a fine series of 

 Ulavicjer loiu/icornis, Mull, (including live specimens), with its proper 

 host [jasiiis iniibratiis-mi.fttis, with which he had taken it at Box Hill 

 on May 16th and 23rd. British Anergates atratulus, Sch. — Mr. 

 W. C. Crawley exhibited 3 , virgin 2 , f^^iHy developed fecund queen, 

 and a partly-developed queen of Aneri/ates atratulus, Sch., taken for 

 the first time in Britain, July 1912, New Forest. The resemblance 

 between the under surface of many species of Melit^a and that 

 of certain Palaearctic Hesperid^. — Prof. Poulton called atten- 

 tion to the striking resemblance between the parts of the underside 

 exposed during rest of many species of Melitaea and certain Hesperidae 

 — especially the large species H. antonia, Spe}'., H. sidae, Esp., and to a 

 less extent JH. carthami, Hiibn. Two Algerian diptera — an Asilid 

 AND AN Uncodid.— Prof. Poulton exhibited a female of the Asilid fly 

 lJeli(/moneiira brunipes, F. {Asilus castanipes, Meigen), together with 

 the Oncodid (Cyrtid) fly PIn/segaster 7)iaculatus, Macq., both from 

 Batna, Algeria — the Asilid' dated July 2nd, 1909. Neither of these 

 was present in the British Museum collection. A Locustid and a 

 Reduviid mimic of a Fossorial Aculkate in the S. Paolo District 

 OF Brazil. — Prof. Poulton exhibited on behalf of Dr. Adalbert Seitz, 

 F.E.S., the Fossorial model Pcpsis sapi)hirus, Pal. de Beauv., and two 

 of its mimics — the Reduviid bug Spiniijer ater, Lep. and Serv., and the 

 Locustid (Phasgoneurid) Scaphura niiira, Thunb., var. r/rr/or.sn, Kirb. 

 A pale TiENiocAMPA GRACILIS. — Mr. J. C. F. Fryer exhibited a light 

 specimen of Taeniocawpa i/mrilis for comparison with that exhibited at 



