226 THE entomologist's record. 



Hamm had found hairs from the anal tuft of the exhibited specimen 

 produced irritation on his hands and face. ]\[r. Eltrin,Q;ham had found 

 that the hairs of the female, but not of the male tuft, were covered 

 with minute excessively fine spicule-like teeth. The cocoons of the 

 African Lasiocampid moth Chrysopsyche varia, Walk. — Prof. Poulton 

 exhibited the imagines and cocoons of C. varia sent to him by Dr. G. 

 D. H. Carpenter from Damba Island, 20 miles south-east of Entebbe. 

 The larval skin was still projecting from some of the cocoons and 

 showing its blue spots. Dr. T. A. Chapman remarked that the hairs 

 covering the eggs of Pnrthetria ilispar are also urticating. He also 

 observed that there are other species of moths which extrude the larval 

 skin, but in these cases it was from flimsy cocoons. The warning 



COLOURS OF THE HyPSID MOTH " CaLLIOKATIS " PACTOLICUS, BuTL., IN 



ALL ITS STAGES. — Pi'of. Poulton exhibited the larvae, pupfe, and 

 imagines of pactoliciis, sent by Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter. The two black- 

 and-white-ringed larvae and the two orange-black-marked pupn3 had 

 been collected on April 17th, 1912, by Dr. Carpenter on the shore of 

 Bugalla, Sesse Islands ; the 32 imagines had been bred (June 1st, 

 1911) from scattered larvag found on Damba Island. Pseudacr^eas of 



THE HoBLEYI group ON THE SeSSE IsLANDS IN THE ViCTORIA NyANZA. 



— Prof. Poulton said that Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter had left Damba in 

 December, 1911, and had gone in January to Bugalla Island in the Sesse 

 Archipelago, and had found there representatives of all the Plauema- 

 Psetulacraea associations. The disproportion between Planewa and 

 Psc'udacraea is even greater there, so much so that Sesse confirms the 

 Damba records, the results being still more striking. The following 

 papers were read: — "Studies in the Blattidae," by R. Shelford, M.A., 

 F.E.S. ; " Pohjommatus alexins, Freyer, a good Species," by T. A. 

 Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



JliEYIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



A Monograph of the African species of the genus AcrjEa, by 

 Harry Eltringham, M.A., F.Z.S. (Transactions of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London, Part I., with sixteen plates). — How 

 different is the description of a genus now in comparison with that 

 thought necessary a hundred years ago. The description of Acraea 

 given by Fabricius in 1807 is " Taster zwei, lang, gefranzt, dreiliedig; 

 drittes Gliedklein, nackt. Fiihler geknopft (Putzfiisse)." To-day the 

 description occupies a page and a half without detailing the neuration, 

 a figure being given of this instead. The whole monograph shows 

 what we should expect from a former student at the Hope Museum, a 

 research into detail, an accuracy of observation coupled with the power 

 of the application of the knowledge thus gained that brings the author 

 into the front rank of systematists. 



It is most interesting to learn that the male armature of Acraea 

 iijati from Madagascar resembles that of the Australian A. amhoniar/ie 

 rathoi' than that of its own allies ; whilst it is equally curious to find 

 that the armature of A. tnirijira has a closer superficial resemblance to 

 that characteristic of the South American genus Artinotc than that of 

 its African neighbours. 



Again the author brings out the fact that it was the able explorer 

 S. A. Neave, who discovered that crystallina described originally as a 



