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Mountains, New Guinea ; 0. trojana, Stdgr., from Palawan ; 0. andro- 

 mache, Stdgr., from Kina Balu, Borneo; Oenetns mirahilis, Itotliscli., 

 from Cedar Bay, Queensland ; and a few other splendid species from 

 the Upper Amazons. Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. G. A. J. Rothney, 

 several specimens of a Heniipteron (Serinetha augur, Fab.), and of a 

 Lepidopteron (Phauda flammans, Walk.), the latter of which closely 

 resembled and mimicked the former. He said that Mr. Rothney had 

 found both species abundantly on the roots and trunks of trees in 

 Mj^sore, in November last, in company with Ants (several species of 

 Camponotus and Or emastog aster). The Hemipteron appeared to be 

 distasteful to the Ants, as it was never molested by them, and he 

 thought that the Lepidopteron was undoubtedly protected from attack 

 by its close imitation of the Hemipteron. 



At the South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society, on March 8tli, Mr. Adkin exhibited specimens of Erehia 

 epiphron from Inverness, which were said to be the type and not var. 

 cassiope. It is generally stated in recent Avorks that the difference 

 between the two forms consists in the presence of white pupils in the 

 ocelli in the tyj^e and their absence in var. cassiope. Knoch, however, 

 in his description of the type, distinctly says that the occurrence of 

 white pupils is not a constant character. They were not present in 

 Mr. Adkin's specimens and Mr. Weir said they never occurred in the 

 forms found in Britain. Mr. Routledge showed specimens of Selenia 

 bilunaria, which had lain over the summer of 1892, emerging in Aj^ril, 

 1893; also the progeny of a pair of these "lazy-landers," which had 

 emerged at intervals from August, 1893, to February, 1894, and were 

 all moderately small, althougli in some the pigment was fairly well 

 developed ; he also brought a series of Epunda luttdenta from Cumber- 

 land, which included both var. lunehurgensis, Frr. and var. sedi, Gn. 

 Mr. Fi'ohawk exhibited ten ^ and ten J Pararge megaera, bred by 

 himself from ova deposited on August 2nd, 1893. Mr. Billups had 

 three rare Ichneumons ; Microgaster russatus, taken at High Beach in 

 1884 ; Haperacrims crassicornis, of which only one recorded specimen 

 was known, taken at Oxshot in 1892 ; Euryproctus nemoralis, taken at 

 Oxshot in July, 1893. Mr. W. A. Pearce ; Attacus lima and Citheronia 

 rcgalis from Wilkinsburg, U.S.A. Mr. Jenner Weir showed <? and ? 

 Hcteronympha merope ; the two sexes are so totally unlike that, until 

 quite recently, they have been sujiposed to be distinct species ; the 

 chrysalis is said to be contained in a frail network on the ground. The 

 latter part of the Society's name was justified by the exhibition, by 

 Mr. Williams, of a local snake, CoroneUa laevis, taken at Camberley, in 

 Surrey, in 1883. Mr. Step had found that the flowers of the Butcher's 

 Broom (Riiscus acideatus) were i)roduced in pairs on the phylloclade, but 

 that only one bud opened at a time. 



On March 22nd, two series of Hybernia leucophearia Avere forth- 

 coming ; one, taken by Mr. Turner at Richmond Park, West Wickham 

 and South London, contained a large number of melanic forms ; in the 

 other, from the New Forest, shown by Mr. Adkin, the white-banded 

 was the predominant form. Mr. South had a long bred series of 

 Taeniocampa gothica, including many var. gothicina, which he had 

 received from Mr. Rose, of Barnsley ; all were large and of a deep red 

 shade. A locust {Aedipoda tartarica), captured at Brixton among 

 vegetables imjjorted from Italy, was shown by Mr. Sauze. 



