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Society. The Rev. G. Wheeler read the Report of the Committee on 

 Nomenclature, which was adopted (see p. 206). A scarce Diptekon. — 

 Mr. J. E. Collin exhibited a series of thirteen specimens of rin/soceji/iala 

 nifp-a, De G., the largest British species of the Conopidae, caught on 

 Studland Heath (Dorsetshire), during the last week in May, when 

 Colonel Yerbury, Mr. C. J. Wainwright and himself took 24 speci- 

 mens ; though widely distributed, the species was always considered 

 a great rarity, and its occurrence in such numbers had never before 

 been recorded. A new Hydroecia. — Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited a 

 specimen of Hydroecia biirroivni, Chpn., a new species that has turned 

 up (from Vladivostock) since Mr. Burrows's paper on the group. A 

 bred Albulina pheketes. — Dr. Chapman also showed a specimen of 

 Allndina pheretes, $ , bred at Reigate from the egg, supposed to be the 

 first (and only) bred specimen of the species. Two uncommon Sudanese 

 Butterflies. — Dr. G. B. Longstaff exhibited Calopieris eulimene and 

 Teracolus pleione, and read notes upon them. East African Asilids 

 and Rhopalocera. — Mr. S. A. Neave exhibited some specimens of the 

 Asilid genas Hi/perechia, representing three, perhaps four, species, all 

 taken during his recent tour in East Africa. He also showed for com- 

 parison four common species of Xylocopa, bees to which the flies bore a 

 marked superficial resemblance. He also exhibited a remarkable new 

 Nymphalinebutterfly, probably belonging to tbegenusPs6'»r/«c7-rt6'rt, taken 

 on Mt. Mlanji, Nyassaland. He pointed out that it bore a marvellous 

 superficial resemblance to Amauris loben(/iilo var. ivhytei, Butler, the 

 Danaine which occurred in the same place. He further exhibited 

 a number of unnamed Lycaenidae, principally from Uganda. Pieris 

 napi and var. bryoniae. — Mr. H. Main exhibited series of P. napi and 

 var. bryoniae, and pointed out that the latter, reared from ova sent 

 both from Lapland and Switzerland, had produced a partial second 

 brood. Coleopterous larv^. — Mr, K. G. Blair exhibited larvae 

 of Cebrio sp. (? gigaa) from Sicily, received from Mr. J. P. Barrett. 

 Heredity in the female forms of Hypolimnas misippus. — Prof. 

 Poulton exhibited females of two families, reared in 1911, from 

 female parents of the type form, by Rev. K. St. Aubyn Rogers, M.A., 

 F.E.S., which confirmed the conclusions drawn from his earlier work, 

 that misippus was dominant and inaria recessive. The Tsetse-fly 

 Glossina caliginea, Austen, rejected by a Monkey. — Prof. Poulton 

 exhibited the fragments of a Glossina identified by Mr. E. E. Austen 

 as a female of (t. caliyinea, Aust. The specimen had been bitten and 

 rejected by a monkey. Families of Butterflies bred by Mr. W. 

 A. Lamborn in the Lagos District. — Prof. Poulton exhibited 

 several of these families, and referred to the strong light which was 

 thrown by them upon different biological problems. The Irritating 

 hairs of the Moth Anaphe infracta, Walsingham. — Prof. Poulton 

 exhibited a specimen of the Eupterotid, or, as Aurivillius considers, the 

 Notodontid moth Anaphe infracta, concerning which Mr. ^V. A. 

 Lamborn had written from Oni Camp, April 22nd, 1912 : — " The moths 

 undoubtedly possess urticating hairs. The female (monkey) Mona 

 was allowed to steal one. She smelt it, rubbed off the hairs and scales, 

 then dropped it, and in a few minutes was rubbing all four feet on the 

 ground. I made some sympathising remarks with the result that she 

 suddenly sprang on to my bare neck, and I have been troubled with 

 skin irritation all the evening." Prof. Poulton said that Mr. A, H. 



