106 THK KNTOMOUXilSl's UhU'ORI). 



W. Edwards, Kingswear, Cornwall Koad, Harrow ; Douglas Pearson, 

 Chilwell House, Chilwell, Notts; B. H. Smith, B.A., Edgehill, 

 Warlingham, Surrey ; C. F. M. Swynnerton, Mt. Chirinda, Melsetter, 

 S. Rhodesia. A Phasmid, new to Science. — -Mr. C. J. Gahan exhibited 

 an insect recently brought to the British Museum, and recognized by 

 him as belonging to rn'so/ms, a remarkable and specially interesting 

 genus of r/iaainidaf. The one now exhibited was new, and he proposed 

 to name it I'n'sopus fhheri in honour of its discoverer. Leucama 

 PAfj^KNs AND L. FAVicoLOR. — Mr. South exhibited a drawer of Leucanid 

 moths captured and reared by the Rev. W. P. Waller in the Wood- 

 bridge district of Suffolk. He observed that seeing that Mr. Waller 

 had reared faricolor from eggs laid by a })a liens -like female, and 

 obtained ])allens from the ova of a female favivolor, the obvious 

 inference was that there was cross-pairing in each case; he understood 

 that faricolor cannot be separated from //aliens by any difterence in the 

 genitalia, and was informed that cross-pairings of pallens and fan'rolor 

 are not uncommon in the habitat of the latter. lie was, therefore, 

 inclined to suppose that fan'ndor is a salt-marsh development of 

 jtallens. A Coi.eopteron new to Britain. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited 

 a specimen of /'/;//.(■ fainnairei, Reiche, taken by him in Sherwood 

 Forest on July 11th, 1908. He also showed a French specimen of the 

 same species, and examples of Knj.v aira, F., the other known British 

 species, for comparison. Rhopalocera from Lapland. — Mr. W. G. 

 Sheldon showed a collection of Rhopalocera made by him in Jenitland 

 and Swedish Lapland in -Tune and July, 1911. Luperina nickerlii 

 and allies. — Mr. Henry J. Turner exhibited a large number of 

 specimens of fjuperina nirkeiiii, of which the British form or race has 

 l)een hitherto known as Lufjiriua i/iifneci, together with series of other 

 races from the Continent. Erebia -bthiops. — Mr. Turner also 

 exhibited a long series of Krebia artln'ops from many contin- 

 ental localities and also from Aviemore, Scotland. Contrasts 

 IN colouring between certain species of butterflies from 

 THE Lagos district and their ckographical races at Entebbe. 

 — Prof. Poulton exhibited a series of specimens tending to refute the 

 view, again recently advanced, that changes of colour and pattern in 

 allied forms are due to climate, and especially to moisture. Pseuda- 



CR<«AS OF THE lIoBLKYI GhoUP ON DaMBA [sLAND AS COMPARED WITH 



THOSE FROM THE Entebbk DISTRICT. — Prof. Poultoii exhibited a set of 

 the mimetic Pseudacneas and their models collected by Mr. C. A. 

 Wiggins in the neighbourhood of Entebbe, which contrasted remark- 

 ably with a set of 17 Pseudacraeas collected by Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter 

 on Damba Island, on the l<]quator, in the Victoria Nyanza, about 20 

 miles south-east of Entebbe. Observation on the courtship of 

 Planema alcinok, Feld. — ^Prof. Poulton exhibited four males and one 

 female of I'lanema alviuoe, captured August 10th, 1911, in the forest 

 one mile east of Oni, near Lagos, by Mr. W. A. Lamborn, "in a 

 confused mass." The cocoons and kgcjs of the Bombycid Moth, 

 Norasuma koloa, Druck. — Prof. Poulton exhibited the cocoon of A'. 

 Itolja together with the moth which had emerged from it. The 

 compact cocoon itself was reddish, with an outer imperfect covering of 

 yellow silk. In some cocoons, including the one exhibited, the silk of 

 this loose and open network formed dense little masses here and there 

 which, being bright yellow in colour, much resembled the cocoons of 



