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butterfly, probably belonging to the genus Pseudacraa, taken on 

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

 superficial resemblance to Amcmris lobengula xohytei, Butler, the 

 Danaine which occurred in the same place. He further exhibited a 

 number of unnamed Lycasnids, principally from Uganda. — Mr. H. 

 Main, series of Pieris napi and var. brijonke, and pointed out that the 

 latter, reared from ova received both from Lapland and Switzerland, 

 had produced a partial second brood. — Mr. K. G. Blair, larv<B of 

 Gehrio sp. (? giyas) from Sicily, received from Mr. J. P. Barrett.— 

 Prof. Poulton, the females of two families of Hjipolimnas misippus, 

 reared in 1911, from female parents of the type form, by Rev. K. St. 

 Aubyn Rogers, M.x\., F.E.S., which confirmed the conclusions drawn 

 from his earlier work that misippits was dominant and inaria 

 recessive. Also the fragments of a Glossina identified by Mr. E. E. 

 Austen as a female of G. caliginea, Aust. ; the specimen had been 

 bitten and rejected by a monkey. He also exhibited several families 

 of butterflies bred by Mr. W. A. Lamborn in the Lagos district, and 

 referred to the strong light which was thrown by them upon 

 difi'erent biological problems. Also a specimen of the Eupterotid, 

 or, as Aurivillius considers, the Notodontid moth, Anaplie infracta, 

 concerning which Mr. W. A. Lamborn had written from Oni Camp, 

 April 22nd, 1912: — "The moths undoubtedly possess urticating hairs. 

 The female 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 sympathizing 

 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. Hamm had found hairs from the anal tuft 

 of the exhibited specimen produced irritation on his hand and face. 

 Mr. Eltringham had found that the hairs of the female but not of the 

 male tuft were covered with minute, excessively fine spicula-like teeth. 

 Prof. Poulton also exhibited the imagines and cocoons of Chryso- 

 psycha varia sent to him by Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter from Damba 

 Island. The larval skin was still projecting from some of the cocoons 

 and sliowing its blue spots. — Dr. T. A. Chapman remarked that the 

 hairs covering the eggs of Porthetria clispar 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. Mr. J. H. 

 Durrant also gave instances of this fact. — -Prof. Poulton exhibited 

 the larvae, pupae and imagines of " Gallioratis " pactolicus, sent by 

 Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter, to illustrate the warning colours of this 

 Hypsid moth in all its stages. He said that Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter 

 had left Damba in December, 1911, and after spending Christmas at 

 Entebbe had gone in January to Bugalla Island, in the Sesse Archi- 

 pelago, and had found there representatives of all the Planema- 

 Pseudacraa associations. The disproportion between Planema and 

 Pseudacrcea is even greater here, 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. ; " Polyommatus alexins, Freyer, a good Species," by 

 T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. — George Wheeler, M.A., 

 Hon. Secretary. 



