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concinnata, Steph., taken by Mr. R. Y. Horn at Tarbert, Argyllshire, 
July, 1915. They were at reston rocks amongst heather. For com- 
parison D. concinnata, Arran, and the two Irish specimens taken by 
Capt. Gwatkin-Williams, R.N., on Achil Island. Also D. citrata ab. 
pythonissata (immanata), Shetlands, and D, truncata, Sutherland. 
Also a melanic aberration of D. concinnata taken by Mr. Horn on 
Arran Island——The Rey. G. Wheeler exhibited a series of Pueris 
napt, from Kinghorn, on the coast of Fife, taken on August 4th, 
1915, the 3 3 being remarkable for the extent of the black markings 
on the fore-wings, the ° ? for the extent of the grey suffusion along 
the costa, inner margin and nervures of the same wings.—Dr. Guy 
A. K. Marshall exhibited a specimen of a Noctuid moth, Arcyophora 
longivalvis, Guen., forwarded from Rukuba Hill (4000 feet), German 
East Africa, by Mr. W. F. Poulton, a veterinary officer of the Uganda 
Protectorate, who had taken it feeding in numbers on the moisture 
from the eyes of mules.—Prof. Poulton exhibited two examples 
of a Pentatomid bug, Zicrona cerulea, L., and a freshly emerged 
male Agriades coridon, Poda, taken at Royston, Herts, July 25th, 
1915, by Dr. E.A. Cockayne. The two brilliant green bugs were suck- 
ing the butterfly, one attacking the thorax, the other the abdomen.— 
Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited ova of Pyrrhopyge charybdis, a skipper 
belonging to the wholly neotropical sub-family Pyrrhopygine. The 
eggs for the size of the butterfly are enormous. Also a number of 
species of the Pyrrhopygine illustrative of the different genera of the 
sub-family. Also Pseudosarbia phentcicola, a mimic of S. canthippe, 
and Pyrrhopygopsis socrates, a mimic of P. pelota, and Phocides 
pigmalion, mimicking J. hospita—Mr. G. T. Porritt, a form of 
Cymatophora or, entirely black with the exception of the pale stig- 
mata, taken at Sunderland this year, several of the form having been 
taken there during each of the past four or five years——Mr. G. 
Talbot, on behalf of Mr. J. J. Joicey, a number of new buttertles from 
Biak. Also cells of mud-wasp (Odynerus ? sp.) formed in the groove 
of an insect store-box in the Witley Museum, the mud having been 
collected and brought into the Museum by the wasp.—The following 
paper was read, “On the Biology of Sphodromantis guttata,” by 
C. B. Williams. B.A., F.E.S., and P. A. Buxton, B.A., F.E.S. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of North America, including 
their transformations and origin of the larval markings and 
armature. Part III. Families Ceratocampide (exclusive of 
Ceratocampine), Saturniide, Hemileucide and Brahmeide. 
By AupHeus Spring Packarp, edited by THeoporE D. A. 
CockerELL. (National Academy of Sciences, vol. xii, First 
Memoir.) Washington. 1914. 
THis large thick quarto volume of 276 pages and 113 plates 
makes one pleased to have the rest of Dr. Packard’s work on this 
subject, and more, to regret that his death ten years ago has deprived 
us of the results to which these laborious studies had led him. 
Mrs, Packard in the Preface says: “The manuscript and notes 
