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specimens, though found in a marshy situation, apparently resembled 
in all respects the dry, chalk-down form of A. trifolii.—Prof. Poulton 
gave an account, written by Dr. Carpenter, of the life-history of 
Papilio hesperus, Westw., and the resemblance of its larva to that of 
P. nobilis, Rog. Prof. Poulton also brought forward some observa- 
tions, recorded in a letter dated September Ist, 1915, by Mrs. D. R. 
Fyson, on the proportions of the female forms of Papilio polytes, L., 
in the neighbourhood of Madras City.—The Rev. G. Wheeler exhibited 
some British Lycznids, taken in July and early August this year: (1) 
Polyommatus icarus, Rott., from the Durham coast, remarkable for 
their large size and the brilliant tint of the ¢ ¢. (2) Plebeius egon 
var. massey?, Tutt, the form from the northern mosses, the ¢ ¢ bright 
blue, with very narrow black border and conspicuous black marginal 
spots on the hind-wing, the 9 ? strongly suffused with blue. (3) Aricia 
medon, Hiifn., from the Durham coast, including almost typical speci- 
mens; also var. salmacis, as described by Stephens, the ¢ with a black 
discoidal spot on the upper side of the fore-wing, the 2 with a white 
one; ab. szmils, Tutt., the ¢ with a white discoidal spot; ab. albian- 
nulata, Harr., with black discoidal ringed with white, so frequently 
described as var. salmacis, the original description of which excludes 
this form; ab. vedre, Harr., with its extreme form ab. obsoleta, 
Obth., in which the spots of the fore-wing are missing on the under- 
side, as well as those of the hind-wing; ab. semivedre, Harr. ; and ab. 
inclara, Harr., with its silvery-white ground-colour on the underside, 
this specimen being also somewhat striated. To these were added 
a few var. artaxerxes, ¥'., from Kinghorn.—Mr. E. E. Green exhibited 
a specimen of a Mantis from Ceylon, together with a Gordiws worm 
that had emerged from it. Also specimens of the rediscovered 
British Coceid Gossyparia ulmt, Geoff. (or spuria of Modeer— 
according to the American authorities), collected by Mr. J.C. F. Fryer, 
on a Cornish elm at Farnham, Surrey.—Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited 
two remarkable mixed gynandromorphs of Myrmuca scabrinodis taken 
in the same colony at Weybridge, July 30th, 1915.—Dr. F. A. Dixey 
exhibited specimens of Nychitona and Leuceronia, remarking that the 
minute resemblance between them extended to flight and habits.— 
Mr. R. Adkin a 5d-spotted specimen of Anthrocera filipendule, col- 
lected from a field at the top of the downs near Otford, Kent.—Mr. 
HK. A. Butler a series of Brachyarthrum limitatum, Fieb., a Capsid 
new to the British list, taken in Epping Forest, July 3rd, 1915, on 
aspen. Also a specimen of Tvmarcha violaceo-nigra, De G., with the 
left intermediate leg furnished with two tarsi, placed upon a much- 
broadened tibia. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalene in the British Museum. Sup- 
plement Volume 1. By Sir Grorae F. Hampson, Bart. Pp. 
i-xxviili and 1-858. London: Printed by Order of the Trustees. 
Asa considerable number of species belonging to the families 
Amatidee (Syntomides) and Arctiade have been described since the 
