48 THE entomologist's record. 



some Coccinellids as found on Minmaa trees at Mont Estoril, in 

 Portugal, together with the small exudations of gum, presenting 

 what appeared to be a remarkable though hitherto unrecorded case of 

 Protective Mimicry. Brep Pyrameis cardui. — Mr. L. W. Newman 

 showed along series of I'l/rauieis canlni, hved from ? s captured at 

 Folkestone on September 2nd last. Ova were laid at once and placed 

 in a hot-house kept at about 80 degrees ; they hatched on September 

 7th, and the larvie fed up very rapidly on stinging nettle, the first 

 pupating on September 30th. Imagines started to emerge about a 

 week later, and all were out by October 16th — some 500 in all. 

 Considerable variation occurred. Rare Diptrra. — Mr. H. W. 

 Andrews exhibited two rare species of Diptera from north 

 Kent, viz., Syrphns lineola, Ztt., a g , taken at Bexley on July 

 8th, and Scionn/za aimjilex, Fin., both sexes, taken in the 

 Thames Marshes on June 23rd and July 1st, all in 1911. A 

 Probable Specimen of Cidaria concinnata. — Mr. E. A. Cockayne 

 exhibited a Geometer taken at Tongue, Sutherland, July 5bh, 1906, 

 closely resembling Cidaria {Di/sstroina) concinnata, Steph., specimens 

 of which were placed below for comparison. Some Local Forms of 

 Melanargia galathea. — Mr. J. Platt Barrett exhibited a drawer of 

 Melanan/ia ijalatUea containing: English specimens, specimens from 

 the Alps, from the Apennines, from Calabria, and from Sicily, 

 including var. pruciila, and var. si/racnsana. A Gigantic Spider. — 

 Mr. A. E. Tonga exhibited a very tine Mtji/ale from California. 

 Rhodesian Insects as Prey. — Professor E. B. Poulton exhibited the 

 following specimens sent to hiiu by Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton, all of 

 which had been captured on the outskirts (3,800 ft.) of Chirinda 

 Forest, Gazaland, S.E. Rhodesia : (1) The female form ////»/«>- 

 coon of Papilio dardanus (cenea), Stoll, rescued, September 8th, 

 1911, by one of his native collectors from a M'lanje Bulbul 

 {r/ii/llostroi)hiis inilanjensis) ; (2) Two wings of Precis arc/iesia, 

 Cr., and the fragments of a Blattid, probably of the genus 

 DeropL'ltis, taken June 25th, 1911, from a spider's web. A new 

 African Lycaenid. — ^Professor Poulton exhibited six male examples 

 of a remarkable Lycsenid, all captured, November 22nd, 1910, in 

 the Uhehe District (3,000-3,500 ft.) of German East Africa, by Mr. 

 S. A. Neave, F.E.S. The pattern and brilliant colours, which were 

 extraordinary in a Lycsenid, strongly suggested, on both upper and 

 under surface, the appearance, although on a smaller scale, of an 

 Acraca of the type of A. aneiiiosa, Hew. An abnormal Coi.koptekon. — 

 Mr. Stanley lulwards exbil)ited a specimen of (h'l/no/itcrn.s aiidouini, 

 a beetle from Borneo, with abnormal antenna^ apparently 

 gynandromorphous, and explained that Mr. Gahan had dissected it and 

 found the gcnitiilia to be entirely $ . Scarce Colkoptkra.— Mr. H. C. 

 l)()llinan ( xbihiled the following species of Colcoptera :-— /7j/7<i»//(((.s 

 intcnnediii.s, Bois., ab. donisihn> jk i, I )olhuan, described in the I'lnt. Hcc, 

 December, 1910; Stcnns forhiicttonnn, Mann., introduced as lU'itish in 

 the Knt. lice, April, 1911 ; neinl)e(liiinujiiadripii,sti(latiiiii,Di.,iiue-s.iimp\e 

 from Ditchling, Sussex, August 17th, 1911 ; I h/pup/ilacns linearis, F., 

 retaken at Oxshott, in July of this year, a species hitherto taken in 

 Great Britain, only in Surrey, at Oxshott and Woking; Mi/cctoporiis 

 fiirticornis, Fauv. (one specimen from the New Forest), with 

 M. clavicornis, Steph., for comparison ; I'hilonthns airniscus, Gr., taken 



