66 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



From Santos, S. E. Brazil, were shown the principal members of a 

 synaposematic group to call attention to a member of the group that 

 had not been previously mentioned. The species was Pericopis isse, 

 a Hypsid moth. — Dr. G. B. Longstaff, a small box of Chrysids, and 

 started an interesting discussion on the means by which the metallic 

 coloration was produced. — Mr. J. Piatt Barrett, series of Melanargia 

 japygia and M. galatea from Sicily. — Mr. G. T. Porritt, a series of 

 Platycleis roeselii taken by himself at Trusthorpe, on the Lincoln- 

 shire coast this year. — Mr. W. A. Lamborn supplemented his previous 

 account of two families of hved< Leucero7iia argia by referrring to a 

 short series of females taken at Oni between April 1st, 1910, and 

 January 25th, 1911, a period including a whole wet season and a part 

 of two dry seasons. — Mr. J. A. Simes exhibited a short series of 

 Parnassius apollo from the Government of Viatka, with a series 

 from the Alps of Dauphiny and Switzerland for comparison. — 

 Professor Poulton said that at his desire Miss Fountaine had kindly 

 prepared an account of the extremely interesting family of Papilio 

 dardamis reared by her in 1909 — the only Natal family at present 

 known in which cenea is other than the most numerous of all the 

 forms. He exhibited a male specimen of P. arenaria, taken by 

 Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter on Bugalla, one of the Sesse Islands. 

 P. arenaria had been shown by Dr. Karl Jordan to be a pale eastern 

 geographical race of the fulvous P. consanguinea of the tropical 

 west coast. It was therefore interesting to find such forms, tending 

 towards an intermediate tint, in an island in the Victoria Nyanza. 

 Professor Poulton also exhibited thirty-seven examples of Bumicia 

 ■plilaas, captured on the same bank at Cerne Abbas, Dorset, in the 

 hot August of 1911 and in the cold August of 1912, by Dr. E. C. L. 

 Perkins. Eight out of the fourteen males captured in 1911 were 

 much darker than any of the eight males captured in 1912. The 

 copper tint of the eight 1912 females was more brilliantly lustrous 

 than in the seven 1911 females. — Mr. T. H. L. Grosvenor, a series of 

 Polyommatus icarus females principally from various localities on the 

 North Downs, arranged according to the year and emergence to 

 which they belonged.— The Kev. G. Wheeler, on behalf of Mr. R. M. 

 Prideaux, some aberrational forms of Bimiicia phlaas and three 

 female " Blues," consisting of one very dark specimen of Agriades 

 corydon and two of A. thetis, one being of the ab. urania, Gerh., and 

 the other having the fore wings dark and the hind wings symme- 

 trically of a pale fawn-colour. Also the specimens of Agriades thetis 

 ab. urania, Gerh., to which he had referred at a former meeting. All 

 were taken between Gomshall and Dorking and were first-brood 

 specimens of this year. Also a series of blue females of Polyomviatus 

 icarus, most of them entirely blue, taken this spring at Notgrove in 

 the Cotswolds, and for comparison the bluest female he had taken 

 there previously, in which the blue scaling was less than the least 

 blue of this spring's captures. — Dr. F. A. Dixey, specimens of 

 Teracolus ephyia, Klug, and some allied forms, together with draw- 

 ings of their respective scent scales. — The following papers were 

 read: — " On some New and little-known Bornean Lycasnidae, with a 

 Revision of the Thecline Genus Thamala, Moore," by J. C. Moulton, 

 F.L.S., Curator of the Sarawak Museum ; " Descriptions of South 



