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July — Sc;|)teii!bcr 1SS5. 



519; 1877, p. 433) occurred on eastern spe- 

 cies. He was glad to hear that Mr. Cham- 

 pion had sent home specimens of the 

 parasitic hirvae, and hoped that further infor- 

 mation would be attainable. 



Mr. G. Lewis remarked on the diticrcnt 

 forms existing in the various species of 

 lucanidae, and stated that he believed these 

 were due to the food of the larvae — whether 

 the diet of the individual larva was nutri- 

 tious and abundant or otherwise. 



Prof. Westwood remarked that the great 

 modifications in the size, curvature, detlec. 

 tion and dentition of the mandibles in male 

 lucanidae required great caution in not too 

 hastily assuming identity of species in cases 

 of great individual divergences. 



I Aug. 18S3. — Sir Sidney Saunders commu- 

 nicated the purport of two letters addressed 

 to him by M. Edmond Andre, of Beaune, 

 upon the subject of the terminal segments 

 "des chalcides a queue"; stating that, alter 

 further investigation, he concurred in consid- 

 ering Sicliel's so-called hypofygliim in those 

 genera (Proc. Entom. soc. Lond., 1SS2, p. 

 26, fig. 70) as a conjoint segment comprising 

 the dorsal and ventral arcs of the 7th. This 

 he intends to notice in the Annales of the 

 French entomological society. 



Mr. R. Meldola read notes from Dr. Fritz 

 Miiller, on the following subjects : "Persecu- 

 tion of distasteful butterflies by birds," "The 

 colour of the pupa of Papilio polydamas" 

 [showing that the green or brown coloration 

 of the pupa does not depend upon the color 

 of the object on which it pupates], and "How 

 the caterpillar of Eunomia eagrus. Cram., 

 employs its hairs" [showing by a figure bow 

 this glaucopid moth distributes its hairs each 

 way from the pupa along the twig on which 

 it pupates in order to defend the pupa from 

 ants and non-flying foes.] ' 



1 The last two papers are printed in German under 

 the titles "Die farbe der puppen von Papilio polydatnas" 

 and "W'ie die raupe von Eunomia eugrits ilire haarc 

 venvcndet" in Kosnios, March 1SS3, juhrg. 6, v. \t, p. 

 448-449. 



5 Sept. 18S3.— Mr. F. Enock exhibited a 

 perfectly bilateral hermaphrodite Macropis 

 labiiita, Panz., the antennae, face, palpi, 

 mandibles, legs, and genitalia showing very 

 cliaracteristically ; the right side was male, 

 the left female. [This bee is figured (Trans. 

 Entom. soc. Lond., 18S3 ; Proc. p. 25)]. 



In discussion, Vanessa cardni, L. , Pantala 

 fiavesceus, Fabr. , and the trimorphic forms 

 of Nczara 7ni-idis, L. , were mentioned as 

 being of cosmopolitan distribution, and 

 Danais archippua, Fabr., was instanced as a 

 species which had but lately taken to migra- 

 tion, being now found in Uritain, the Azores, 

 New Caledonia, and various oceanic islands, 

 where it was previously known not to occur. 



3 Oct. 1883.— Mr. W. F. Kirby, on behalf 

 of M. Alfred Wallly, who was present as a 

 visitor, exhibited a large box containing nu- 

 merous bred specimens of various silk-pro- 

 ducing hombycidae. . . . One extraordinary 

 specimen of a Saniia was very notable ; . • . 

 on this Mr. Kirby read a note entitled "Ab- 

 normal specimen of the genus Saniia." 

 [This note, describing the specimen in 

 detail, is printed in Trans. Entom. soc. Lond., 

 1883: Proc, p. 27. Concerning this specimen 

 and description the following remarks are 

 t'urnished to the editors of P-syche : — 



Abnormal Specimens of Samia and al- 

 lies. The 5««;/V; described by Kirby is noth- 

 ing but a suffused aberration of cecrupia. It 

 emerged from a cocoon received among many 

 others of cecropia from the I'nited States by 

 Mons. Wailly, of London, Eng., who after- 

 wards disposedof themoth toMons. Godeffroi 

 MoUinger, residing in the Netherlands. The 

 latter sent me at the time an excellent, full 

 size photograph of the insect, from which I 

 saw in a moment that it was an abnormal 

 cecropia. I have two agreeing with it almost 

 exactly, save that they are not so large; have 

 also seen another in a collection in New York 

 that is nearly like it; in fact those things are 

 not such rarities; almost any one who breeds 

 large numbers of this or other species is likely 

 out of the number to find some such monsters. 



