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from further south thau Cumberland ; (h) two specimens of Nola 

 confusalis, H.S., ab. columhina, Image, taken in Epping Forest, May 

 5th, 1906 (the first examples of this aberration were taken at the 

 same locality. May 22ud, 1905, and recorded in the Ent. Eeo., July, 

 1905, p. 188) ; and (c) a specimen of Peronea cristana, F., the ground 

 colour of upper wings abnormally black, even more intensely black 

 than in the ab. nigrana, Clark — taken in Epping Forest, August 19th, 

 1905. — Mr. J. H. Keys sent for exhibition the type of Spathorrhampkus 

 corsicus, Marshall, from Vizzavoua, Corsica. This fine Anthribid was 

 supposed by some coleopterists to have been an accidental importa- 

 tion into the mountainous regions of the island, but was no doubt 

 endemic. — Mr. G. C. Champion remarked that he had taken Platyr- 

 rhinus latirostris in numbers at the same locality, in the beech and 

 pine forests (Pinus laricio) along the line of railway, above the tunnel. 

 — Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited specimens of African Pierinse found by Mr. 

 C. A. Wiggins on Feb. 2nd, 1906, settled on damp soil near the Eipon 

 Falls, Victoria Nyanza, and caught, to the number of 153, at a single 

 sweep of the net. Eight species were represented ; the examples were 

 all males, and, with one exception, belonged to the dry- season form of 

 their respective species. — Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., commu- 

 nicated some notes on Natal butterflies, which he had received from 

 Mr. G. H. Burn, of Weenen, and exhibited the four individuals of 

 Euralia wahlberghi, Wallgr., and E. mima, Trim., captured by G. A. K. 

 Marshall, near Malvern, Natal. He then explained Mr. Marshall's 

 latest demonstration of seasonal phases in South African species of 

 the genus Precis, the proof by actual breeding that P. tukuoa, Wallgr,, 

 is the dry-season phase of P. ceryne, Boisd. — Professor Poulton 

 further showed three hundred and twenty-five butterflies captured in 

 one day by Mr. C. B. Roberts, between the eighth and tenth mile from 

 the Potaro River, British Guiana, and drew attention to the pre- 

 ■ ponderance of males ; also specimens of the Halticid beetle Apteropoda 

 orbiculata, Mar., with its mimic Hemipteron, Halticn apterus, L., 

 from Stone Wood, Oxford ; and of the Staphylinid Myrmedonia canali- 

 culata, F., with Formica rufa race rwoides from South Hinksey, the 

 beetle looking extremely like the ant — both taken by Mr. W. Holland. 

 — The following papers were read : — " Some Bionomic Notes on 

 Butterflies from the Victoria Nyanza Region, with exhibits from the 

 Oxford University Museum," by S. A. Neave, B.A. ; " On the Habits 

 of a Species of Ptyelus in British East Africa," by S. L. Hinde, illus- 

 trated by drawings by Mrs. Hinde, communicated by Professor E. B. 

 Poulton ; " Mimetic forms of Papilio dardanus (merope) and Acrcca 

 johnstoni," and "Predaceous Insects and their Prey," by Professor E. B. 

 Poulton, D.Sc, F.R.S. ; and " Studies on the Orthoptera in the Hope 

 Department, Oxford University Museum. I. Blattidse," "Notes on a 

 feeding experiment on the spider Xephita macidata," by R. Shelford, 

 M.A., F.Z.S. — H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., Hon. Secretary. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 April 12th.— Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in the chair.— Mr. L. W. 

 Newman, of Bexley, was elected a member. — Mr. Main exhibited a long 

 piece of Gum Animi from West Africa, and called attention to the 

 numerous insects, chiefly Coleoptera, enclosed in it. — Mr. Edwards, a 



