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Morice, a case of Aculeate. Hymenopicro, representing many different groups 

 visiting a solitary tree of Ochrademus haccatns, Del., in the neighboiu'hood of 

 Jericho. They showed a remarkable similarity in point of coloiu', kc, and 

 neither plant nor insects, in most cases, were to be found elsewhere in the 

 region. Mr. A. H. Joniis, a few butterflies collected diiring last simimer at 

 Formia, near Naples, including Melanargia. anje, probably the most northerly 

 limit of the species; fine forms of Hipparchia semele, Satyrus statilimis, Melitaea 

 parthenie, and Lamjndes boeticus ; also various Lycsenidss presenting little, if 

 any, difference from the types foimd in the Swiss Alps. Mr. H. J. Turner, 

 an example of Melitxa didyma in which the greater portion of the black pig- 

 ment had more or less failed^to develope, captured at Zermatt on August 3rd, 

 1909 ; a specimen of Brenthis euphrosyne, taken in the same locality on July 31st, 

 the spots composing the siibmarginal line being well developed, and most of them 

 elongated towards the base ; a specimen of Polyommatus damon, in which there 

 was no trace of the transverse row of eye-spots on the imder-side of the fore- 

 wings, the discoidal spot only being present, taken near Aigle on Jidy 29tli ; 

 and two series of Melitaea parthenie, with var. ? vavia, the first taken on the 

 Riffel-alp on August 1st, and the second up the Valley of the Zmutt, Zermatt, 

 on July 31st. Mr. A. Sich, a pair of Depressaria putridella, Schiff., bred from 

 larvae taken last June at Whitstable, Kent, of which species the first British 

 examples were taken in the larval state by Mr. E. D. Green in 1906 ; also a j^air 

 of Coleop'hora cluilcoijrnmmclla, Zell., taken last Augiist in Richmond Park, 

 SuiTey, apparently not hitherto taken in Britain fiu'ther south than Suffolk. 

 Mr. H. M. Edelsten, a bred series of Nonagria neurica, Hb. {cdelsteni) from 

 Sussex, including two new aberrations, for which lie suggested the names of 

 ru/esce7is and fnsc.a ; he nientit)ned that, so far as he was aware, these two forms 

 had not Ijeen previously noted on the Continent ; he also showed ova and pupa 

 in situ, with photographs by Mr. Hugh Main to illustrate the life-history of 

 the species. Mr. W. G. Sheldon, a case containing several species of Pieridee 

 taken by him this year at Herculesbad ; he drew attention to those labelled as 

 Pieris rapue, siiggesting that some of them might be P. crgane and P. manni, to 

 which respectively they have a remarkable resemblance superficially. Mr. W. J. 

 Lircas, two imagines and a larva of the finest of our Neuroptera, Planipennia, 

 Osmylus chrysops, taken by Dr. D. Sharp near Queen's Bower in the New Forest. 

 The larva pierces and sucks dry some small animals, but its life-history is not well 

 knoAvn. Dr. G. B. Longstaff, a teratological specimen of a Carabid beetle from 

 Ceylon (Omphra, Latr., sp.). The middle femur of the right side was dilated, 

 at the distal end, bearing at its anterior angle two supplementary tibia; coherent 

 at the base; the rudimentary tarsi were also adherent. Mr, A. W. Bacot, two 

 boxes containing pupal cases of Aglais urticse. collected by Mr. Hugh Main in 

 one locality. Those taken from the food-phmt were yellowish-white ; those taken 

 from the cage in which the larvae pupated were quite black, thus demonsti-ating 

 the effect of surroundings upon the pupal coloration. Dr. T. A. Chapman 

 read a paper " On CaUophrys avis, a Palwarctic Butterfly new to Science." — 

 H. Rowland BiioWN, Hon. Secretary. 



