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Erichs., a Staphylinid beetle new to the British list, taken at 

 Leverstock Green, Herts, by Mr. Albert PiiTard. 



The Rev. F. D. Morice mentioned, as a fact of some interest, 

 that in a nest of Formica scmguinea at Weybridge, in which 

 he found males and workers of that species, he found also 

 males and females as well as workei's of the slave-ant Formica 

 fiosca, an experience somewhat different to that of Huber and 

 Darwin, who stated that workers only, and never males nor 

 fertile females, of the slave species were found in the nests of 

 F. sanguinea. 



The Secretary read the following paper, communicated by 

 Mr. H. L. L. Feltham, of Stellenberg, near Cape Town, and 

 exhibited one female and two male specimens of the dark 

 variety referred to in it. Mr. Feltham requested that these 

 specimens should be handed over to Dr. Butler to be placed in 

 the British Museum collection. 



Notes on Variations of Zeritis thyshe, Linn. 

 By H. L, L, Feltham. 



"Mr. Roland Trimen in his ' Soutli African Butterflies,' vol. 

 ii, p. 182, describes two specimens which he refers to under 

 the heading 'Aberration $ — Habitat, Cape Town,' in dealing 

 with the above-named species. One of the specimens, taken in 

 1868 (]), is a very much battered one, now in the collection of 

 the South African Museum, and gives little idea of the real 

 splendour of this form ; the other specimen, taken in the year 

 1865, is the subject of a note, and has been iigured in P.Z.S. 

 Lond., 1868, p. 223, pi. xvii, f. 5, and judging only by the 

 plate, is a good specimen. 



"This butterfly has not since been recorded at the 8. A. 

 Museum, nor have I found any mention elsewhere of its 

 subsequent appearance. A note of its capture in some numbers 

 may therefore not be without interest. 



"During the summer of 1899 — 1900 I succeeded in taking 

 44 specimens of the S aberration within a very restricted 

 area of about an acre upon the summit of the mountains over- 

 looking Minzenberg and forming part of the chain of 

 mountains which extend along the Cape Peninsula from Table 

 Mountain to Cape Point. Late in the same season one was 



