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Africa, and said that it was remarkable that the species should have 

 been introduced there, and then brought back to Great Britain. — 

 Professor E. B. Poulton exhibited two FjupUeina, captured in Fiji 

 by Professor Gustave Gilson, and presented by him to the Hope 

 Department. The species, which belonged to the different genera 

 Nipara and Deia(jena, bore the closest superficial resemblance to each 

 other, afi'ording an interesting example of MixUerian or Synaposematic 

 likeness. — Professor Poulton also exhibited several specimens of 

 Diliiia populi which had been exposed during the pupal stage to 

 the intense heat of July, 1900. lu consequence of this " forcing " the 

 moths emerged towards the end of that month, and were markedly 

 different in colour from the normal, being much paler in tint with less 

 distinct markings, and the red of the hind wings of a very different 

 shade. They were also smaller, but this effect may have followed 

 from the larvae having been brought up under artificial conditions in 

 the Oxford Museum. — The Rev. A. E. Eaton exhibited drawings illus- 

 trating the wing of Pawpterinus latipeimu, Etn., MS., a remarkable 

 dipterous fly of the family Psychodidas, from New Guinea, in the 

 collection of the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. — Prof. L. 

 Comptou Miall, F.K.S., contributed a paper "On a New Cricket of 

 Aquatic Habits, found in Fiji by Professor Gustave Gilson." Mr. R. 

 McLachlan said this was not the first time an orthopteron of aquatic 

 habits had been noticed. Mr. Pascoe had brought back one such 

 insect from the Amazons, which leaped on the leaves of aquatic 

 plants, and there was a recent record of another species with kindred 

 habits being found in Java. Professor E. B. Poulton remarked that 

 Professor Miall was interested in insects which skate upon the water, 

 but there were also some Orthoptera which were aquatic in another 

 sense. Mr. Annandale had brought back from the Malay region an 

 aquatic insect of this order (a BLatta), which was far too heavy to 

 skim upon the surface. The President added that there were some 

 Coleoptera which, although non-aquatic, were so specialized as to be 

 able to use their limbs in a snnilar manner to water-beetles. — Dr. 

 T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., communicated a paper on " Asymmetry 

 in the Males of Hemarine and other Sphinges." — Mr. E. Meyrick, 

 B.A., F.Z.S., communicated a paper on " Lepidoptera from the 

 Chatham Islands." — H. Rowland-Brown, Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 April 24:th, 1902.— Mr. F. Noad Clark, President, in the chair. — Mr. 

 C. R. L. Boxer, of Lee, was elected a member. — Mr. Harrison 

 exhibited a long series of Tmniocampa opima, bred from ova collected 

 at Wallesey, Cheshire. More than half the specimens were of an 

 extremely dark coloration, and very few of the type form. — Mr. Main, 

 numerous species he had collected in the New Forest at Easter. — Mr. 

 Kaye, a very fine series of Heliconius Undigii taken in British Guiana, 

 on the Rio Potaro ; and also specimens of the Hymenoptera Melittia 

 ceto and M. caudatum, both from South America. — Mr. R. Adkin, a 

 series of dark forms of Pdlnra monacha, bred from a New Forest 

 parent taken in 1901. — Mr. Moore, the Orthoptera Polyspilota striata 

 and Tenodera aridtfolia from Africa ; Hierodula vitiila and Creoboter 

 urbana, from Sylhet. — Mr. Colthrup, a var. of Abraxas grossulariata, 



