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or little-known, species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from Africa 

 and Madagascar." A letter was read from Mr. E. C. Cotes, of 

 the Indian Museum, Calcutta, asking for the assistance of 

 British Entomologists in working out certain groups of Coleo- 

 ptera, Neuroptera, Orthoptera, Diptera, and Hymenoptera in the 

 Indian Museum. A discussion ensued, in which Mr. M'Lachlan, 

 Dr. Sharp, Mr. Waterhouse, Herr Jacob}', and Mr. Distant took 

 part. — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society.— iVarc/i 22ncZ, 1888. T. K. Billups, F.E.S., President, 

 in the chair. Messrs. E. Knight, C. J. Montague, J. E. Lloyd, 

 W. Roots, and R. Pierpoint, were elected members. Mr. R. 

 South exhibited a specimen of Polyommatus phlceas with ocellus on 

 under surface of left hind wing similar in character to the marginal 

 ocelli on the under surface of anterior wings, and an example 

 of Papilio bianor with a patch of the colour and ornamentation 

 proper to the under surface of hind wings on the under surface 

 of the , right fore wing. The Polyommatus was captured by 

 Mr. South in N. Devon in 1881, and the Papilio by Mr. lieach's 

 collector in China in 1887. Mr. Tutt, specimens of Leucania im- 

 pudens taken by Mr. W. Farren, of Cambs. ; one closely resembling 

 Hiibner's grey type ; one the var. striata of Staudinger ; one 

 resembling Hiibner's figure of pudorina ; the others being 

 intermediate forms. Mr. White, preserved larvee, also imagines, 

 of the genus Acronycta, for the purpose of exhibiting the 

 difference of character in the larvae and the close resemblance of 

 the moths, which he stated was so strong in the well-known 

 instance of A. tridens and A. 2)si. Mr. White said he should be 

 pleased to receive ova of any species of this genus, for the 

 purpose of studying the aflinity of the group ; it would be 

 interesting to ascertain if the larvae varied in the different stages, 

 and whether there was a much closer resemblance in the final 

 stage. Mr. South remarked that in the earlier stages the larva 

 of A. p)si could not be separated from the larva of A, tridens. 

 Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited British and Continental specimens 

 of Euchloe cardamines, and remarked that he had observed for 

 some years a difference between the latter, so far as he had been 

 able to examine them, and those captured by himself in Kent, 

 Surrey, Sussex, and Hants ; those captured in these counties 

 had the orange spot on the upper wings reaching but slightly 



