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the last meeting by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild. Thalpochares ostrina 

 FROM Paignton. — Comm. J. J. Walker exhibited, on behalf of Dr. R. 

 C. L. Perkins, a specimen of Thalpochares. ostrina Hiibn., var. carthaiiri, 

 H.S., apparently freshly emerged from pupa, taken by Dr. Perkins at 

 Paignton on June 1st, 1913. A single batch of Celastrina argiolus 

 EMERGING IN AUTUMN AND SPRING. — The President showed 33 specimens 

 of Celastrina ari/ioliis bred from one batch of eggs, sixteen of which 

 emerged last autumn and seventeen in May of this year. Synepigonic 



SERIES of PaPILIO DARDANUS, FROM PARENT FORM PLANEMOIDES. Dr. 



G. D. H. Carpenter gave an account of a brood of Papilio dardanus 

 raised by him from eggs laid by a J of the plavemoides form, consisting 

 of 22 specimens, seven hippocoon, three planemoides, the rest males. 

 Insects and Asclepiadace.e. — Dr. K. Jordan showed a Swallow-tail 

 [Papilio thoas sub-sp. thoantiilea), a Hawk-moth (Protoparce dilfissa) 

 and a Honey-bee {Apis luellifica), which were found dead at Buenos 

 Ayres on Araujia albens, being caught by their proboscis in the 

 flowers of that plant. Stridulating Pupa. — Dr. K. Jordan also 

 exhibited, on behalf on Prof. Seitz, the cocoon and chrysalis of a 

 Noctuid from China. The pupa bears dorsally at the base of the last 

 segment a patch of sharp longitudinal ridges, and there are corres- 

 ponding ridges on the inside of the cocoon. This stridulating apparatus 

 enables the pupa to produce a loud chirping continued sound. A useful 

 apparatus. — Dr. G. B. Longstaft" exhibited a simple apparatus which 

 he had designed, with the assistance of Mr. H. Eltringham, to turn 

 over several butterflies at once, so as to display alternately the upper- and 

 under-sides. It was manufactured by W. Watson and Son, 813, High 

 Holborn. Bee and Parasite. — Dr. Longstaft' also exhibited a small 

 bee {Andrena, sp.) with a Coleopterous larva, apparently a Meloid, 

 partly on, partly in its abdomen. Captured near Seville, Spain, April 

 15th, 1913. Papers. — " On the relationship between certain West 

 African Insects, especially Ants, Lepidoptera and Homoptera," by W. 

 A. Lamborn, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.E.S., Entomologist to the Agri- 

 cultural Department of Southern Nigeria. With an Appendix con- 

 taining descriptions of New Species by G. T. Bethune-Baker, Pres. 

 Ent. Soc, W. L. Distant, J. Hartley Durrant, and Prof. R. Newstead, 

 F.R.S. " Supplementary notes on new or little-known forms of 

 Acraea,'" by H. Eltringham, M.A., F.Z.S. With description of a new 

 form of Acraea encedon by Prof. E. B. Poulton, D.Sc, F.R.S. 



Ji^EVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



"^ Preliiuinary Report of the Tetnperature reached in Army Biscuits 

 diiriufi Bakinr/, especially witJi reference to the destruction of t/ie Imported 

 Flour-moth, Ephestia k'uhniella, Zell." By J. Hartley Durrant, F.E.S., 

 and Lieut. -Col. W. W. 0. Beveridge, D.S.O., R.A.M.C. (Avith seven 

 plates). — This is a Report of probably one of the most important pieces 

 of economic entomological work which has been done in this country 

 for many years past. In spite of precautions, increasing in vigilance 

 each year, to obviate the ravages of moths and beetles, it has hitherto been 

 impossible to prevent the more or less extensive depredations of certain 

 insects on our army stores. Minute and careful observation soon proved 

 that the species of Lepidoptera mainly involved were Ephestia ki'ih- 



