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1894. A full-fed larva was found in my garden in the early part of last 

 January which emerged a few days ago. The specimen mentioned by Mr. 

 Gurney as having been caught in a greeuhouse (antea, p. 78) was probably 

 introduced there in the larval state when feeding on some plaut. I have 

 often found them feeding on the geraniums in my greenhouse during the 

 winter. It is a hardy species and one of the easiest to breed. I have 

 frequently reared them during the winter. The ova are deposited about 

 Sept. 24th and hatch in eleven days, and with a little protection from the 

 cold nights they will continue to feed without interruption until full-fed, 

 which will be about the first fortnight in December. The imagines will 

 emerge towards the end of February, but it will be necessary to let them 

 have some artificial heat if the weather is very cold. — Edward Ransom ; 

 Sudbury, Suffolk, April 11th, 1899. 



Butterflies from Natal. — My friend Mr. Henry Watt, Malvern, 

 Natal, was so kind as to collect for me the butterflies which appeared at a 

 fruit farm in the viciuity of Malvern during April and May, 1898. These 

 he sent me in papers, in order that I might pick out a selection for the 

 Elgin Museum. As the specimens were not singled out by him, but taken 

 as they came, I think this list may interest your readers : — Papilio demo- 

 docus, Esp. (demoleus, L.), P. lyceus, Doubl., P. cenea, Stoll. ; Fieris 

 severina, Cram., P. severina var. boguensis, Feld., P. agathina, Cram. ; 

 Terms zo'e, Hopff., T. senegalensis, Gever; Catopsilia florella, Fab., 

 C. florella var. rhadia, Bois. ; Teracolus omphale, Godt., T. theogone, 

 Bois. ; Danais chrysippus, L. ; Nebroda echeria, Stoll., var. albimaculata, 

 Butl. ; Acrcea natalica, Bois., A. cablra, Hopff., A. buxtoni, Butl. ; 

 A. encedon, L., A. mahela, Bois., var. neobule, Doubl., A. punctatissima, 

 Bois., A. ecebria, Hew.; Atella phalanta, Don. ; Hypanartia hippomene, 

 Hub. ; Pyrameis cardui, L. ; Junonia cebrene, Trim., J. clelia, Cram. ; 

 Precis cyrene, Bois., P. sesamus, Trim., P. archecia, Cram., P. natalica, 

 Feld. ; Salamis anacarlii, L. ; Eurytela hiarbas, Don. ; Hypanis ilithyia, 

 Don. ; Hypolimnas misippus, L. ; Eur alia mima, Trim., E. wahlbergi, 

 Wall. ; Crenis drusius, Fab., C. boisduvali, Wall. ; Crenidomimus rosa, 

 Hew. ; Charaxes candiope, Godt., C. cithceron, Feld. ; Palla varanes, 

 Cram. ; Mycalesis sajitza, Hew. ; Aphnaus natalensis, Doubl. ; Plebeius 

 thespis, L. ; Tagiades flesus, Fab. The onlv species calling for comment is 

 G. rosa (one female), which Dr. Butler has been so good as determine, and 

 which is now in the collection of the British Museum. — Henry H. Brown ; 

 Elgin, Scotland. 



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Entomological Society of London. — March 15th, 1899. — Mr. G. 

 H. Verrall, President, in the chair. Mr. William Martin Geldart, M.A., 

 of Norbiton ; and Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, of Old Charlton, Kent, were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. Mr. J. J. Walker exhibited several 

 specimens of Longitarsus rutilus, 111., a rare British species of Halticidre, 

 taken by him on March 11th at Halstow in Kent. Mr. Tutt exhibited 

 a very fine series of Epunda lutulenta captured by the Rev. C. R. N. 

 Burrows last autumn near Mucking in Essex. This series, while 

 agreeing in the main with Borkhausen's typical form, varied inter se 

 in such a manner as to give almost parallel forms to those so well 

 known from Scotland and Ireland, yet they had the ordinary blackish- 



