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Society's Procoedings, or in the " Entomologist's Record." Mr. A. H. Jones, on 

 behalf of Mr. Henry Lnpton, a few butterflies from Majorca, captured between 

 April 8th and April 20th last. Comparing the specimens with those of similar 

 species from Corsica, also exhibited, they appeared to be smaller; the Pararge 

 megpera approached the form tigelius, the Ccenonympha pamphilus differed some- 

 what in the under-side, being darker. Only one moth was seen, 31. steUatarum. 

 Mr. Selwyn Image (a), a specimen of Cramhus erieellus, Hb., taken at Loughton, 

 Essex, August 8th, 1899. Not previously recorded from further south than 

 Cumberland ; {h) two specimens of Nola confasalis, H.-S. ab. columbiva. Image, 

 taken in Epping Forest, May 5th, 1906 ; and (c) a specimen of Feronea cristana, F., 

 the ground colour of the upper-wings abnormally black, even more intensely black 

 than in the ab nigrana^ Clark. Taken in Epping Forest August 19th, 1905. Mr. 

 J. H. Keys sent for exhibition the type of Spathorrhamphus corsicus, Marshall, from 

 Yizzavona, Corsica. This fine Anthribid beetle was supposed by some Coleopterists 

 to have been an accidental importation into the mountainous regions of the island, 

 but was no doubt endemic. Mr. Gr. C. Champion remarked that he had taken 

 Plafyrrhinus latirostris, in numbers, at the same locality, in the beech and pine 

 forests {Pinus laricio) along the line of railway, above the tunnel. Dr. F. A. 

 Dixey, specimens of African Pierinse found by Mr. C. A. Wiggins on February 2nd, 

 1906, settled on damp soil near the Ripon Falls, Victoria Nyanza, and caught, to 

 the number of 153, at a single sweep of the net. Eight species were represented ; 

 the examples were all males, and, with one exception, belonged to the dry-season 

 form of their respective species. Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., communicated some 

 notes on Natal butterflies, which he had received from Mr. Or. H. Burn, of Weenen, 

 and exhibited four individuals of Euralia wahlberghi, Wallgr., and E. wima, Trim., 

 captured by Mr. G-. A. K. Marshall, near Malvern, Natal. He then explained 

 Mr. Marshall's latest demonstration of seasonal phases in South African species of 

 the genus Precis, the proof by actual bi'eeding that P. tulcuoa, Wallgr., is the dry- 

 season phase of P. cergne, Boisd. He further showed 325 butterflies captured in 

 one day by Mr. C. B. Roberts, between the 8th and 10th mile from the Potaro 

 River, British Guiana, and drew attention to the preponderance of males ; also 

 epecimens of the Halticid beetle, Apteropeda orbiculata, Mar., taken in Stowe 

 Wood, Oxford, with its mimic Hemipteron, Halticus apterus, L. ; and of the 

 Staphylinid, Myrmedonia canaliculata, F., with Mgrmica rubra, race ruginodis, 

 taken near South Hinksey by Mr. W. Holland, the beetle looking exti'emely like 

 the ant. The following papers were read: " Some Bionomic Notes on Butterflies 

 from the Victoria Nyanza Region, with exhibits from the Oxford University 

 Museum," by S. A. Neave, B.A., F.E.S. " On the Habits of a species of Ptgelus in 

 British East Africa," by S. L. Hinde, illustrated by drawings by Mrs. Hinde, 

 communicated by Professor E. B. Poulton. " Mimetic forms of Papilio dardanua 

 (jnerope) and Acrxa johnstoni " and " Predaceous Insects and their Prey," by 

 Professor E. B. Poulton, D.Sc, F.R.S. " Studies on the Orthoptera in the Hope 

 Department, Oxford University Museum : I. Blattidae," and " A Note on a 

 Feeding Experiment on the Spider Nephila maculata,^^ by R. Shelford, M.A., 

 F.L.S., F.E.S. —H. Rowland Brown, M.A., Hon. Secretary. 



