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to think that similar conditions of enviromncnt produced similar 

 effects. Mr. J. J. Walker, Sir George Hampson, and Col. Yerbury 

 gave evidence, from personal experience in the Tropics, as to the 

 extreme rarity of butterfly destruction by birds. The President 

 admitted its rarity in Africa ; but stated that he had seen birds, 

 especially the Drongo shrike, chasing butterflies. Mr. Blandford 

 called attention to a recent paper by M. Piepers, who, as the result of 

 twenty-eight years' observation in the Malay region, had seen four 

 instances only of butterflies, two of which belonged to the "protected" 

 genus Kiiplcea, being attacked by birds, and had been driven to the 

 conclusion that the phenomena of mimicry had nothing to do with 

 natural selection. Papers were communicated by the Piev. F. D. 

 Morice on "New or little-known Sphegidfe from Egypt"; and by 

 Prof. J. F. Grote on "Changes in the Structure of the Wing of 

 Butterflies." A special meeting was then held, at which the proposed 

 amendments and additions to the Society's bye-laws were adopted. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 May 21th, 1897.— Mr. K. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 Mr. Bainbridge Prest, M.A., of Sydenham, was elected a member. 

 Mr. South exhibited a box of Tephrosias, which he had purposely 

 mixed as regards dates and localities. He asked for information as 

 to names, but no one essayed to pick out the two forms. Mr. Auld, 

 larva3 of Boarmia rohoraria and Limenitls sibijlla from the New Forest, 

 and also larvjTJ of the two Phorodesmas, P. hajularia and P. smaragdaria, 

 and remarked on the close similarity of the former, in its covering of 

 oak remnants, to the groups of brown scales enclosing the buds on the 

 oak twigs. Mr. Moore, male and female specimens of the remarkable 

 Mexican Pierid, Pyrisitia proterpia, a bright and rich orange coloured 

 insect. Mr. Tutt, specimens of Ascalap/ius cucejam, a Neuropterous 

 insect allied to the ant-lions, from Digne, with notes on its history, 

 variation, and occurrence. An allied species, A. maccaronixis, was 

 described by Scopoli as a butterfly. Mr. Edwards, a living mantis 

 sent from Cannes by Dr. Chapman. He had had it some six weeks, 

 and it fed readily upon small cockroaches and flies. He also showed 

 young larva3 of Sattinda pavoina from ova laid by a female taken at 

 Digne. Mr. Adkin, series of Cidaria sujfumata from various localities, 

 including Forres, Dover, Box Hill, and Loch Laggan. Those from the 

 latter locality were var. piccata. Mr. Tuualey, specimens of the 

 resinous nodules of pine sent him from Scotland, from which he had 

 bred Itetinia rcdnella. He also showed sections of the same, and made 

 remarks upon the peculiarities of the cocoon and the method of emer- 

 gence of the species. Dr. Chapman exhibited, among other insects, 

 a living specimen of Chara.vcs jasius, which had just emerged from the 

 pupa of a larva taken at Cannes. Mr. Tutt read a paper entitled 

 " Spring Butterflies on the Riviera," and exliibited a large number of 

 species in illustration. 



June 10th. — The President in the chair. Mr. Jas. N. Smith, 28, 

 Eastdown Park, Lewisham, was elected a member. Mr. Mansbridge 

 exhibited a larva of Tephroda crepuscularia beaten from yew, and a 

 short series of imagines bred as a second brood from larvae taken at 



