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rest is very interesting, as also is the " homing " instinct which leads 

 the larvae to return to the same spot at the end of each night. Prof. 

 Poulton also showed a specimen of Polygonia c-album in the attitude of 

 prolonged repose, together with specimens of Anaa moeris set in different 

 ways to illustrate its probable resting position. He said that the " C " 

 or "comma" on the under surface of the hind wings in butterfiies 

 belonging to the genus Polygonia [Grapta] no doubt represents in 

 bright, strongly-reflecting " body-colour " the light shining through a 

 semicircular rent in a fragment of dead leaf — the rent produced when 

 a little segment of leaf has broken away along a curved line, but still 

 remains connected with the rest — across the chord of the arc. The 

 President also exhibited a pair of Hypolimnas misipjnm taken in coitu 

 by Mr. Horace A. Byatt, near his house, at a height of 4500 to 5000 ft., 

 in Dedza, Central Angoniland, British Central Africa. The specimens 

 were remarkable in that the female was excessively worn and old, far more 

 so than the male. Such an observation tends towards the conclusion 

 that pairing occurs more than once in the life of an individual of this 

 species. Mr. G. A. J. Eothney communicated " Descriptions of Twelve 

 New Genera and Species of IchneumonidcB, and Three New Species of 

 Ampidex from India, by Peter Cameron." — H. Rowland Brown, 

 Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 April 9th, 1903.— Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., President, in the chair.— Mr. R. 

 Adkin exhibited a short series of Phigalia pedaria, bred from York 

 larv», and remarked particularly on the intensely black coloration 

 which has been developed in both sexes. — Mr. Turner, an example of 

 the var. trapezaria of Crocallis elimjuaria from Brockley, and pointed 

 out the very dark central band, its distinguishing character. He also 

 showed a short series of Cleora glabraria from the New Forest, and 

 remarked that the species had recently been taken in North Devon by 

 Mr Tunaley. 



April 23/(7. — The President in the chair. — Mr. Harrison and Mr. 

 Main exhibited a long bred series of Tmniocampa munda, from ova laid 

 by two females captured in 1902 in Epping Forest. The series ex- 

 hibited all the forms of the ground colour, from var. pallida and var. 

 grisea to an extreme form of var. rufa. Many were sprinkled with dark 

 scales as in T. pnlverulenta. Most of the specimens were of the var. 

 geminatus with six well-developed black spots in the submarginal line. 

 — Mr. Turner, (1) specimens of Blabophanes. imella and Litha athiops 

 from Bonhill, Dumbartonshire ; (2) a series of Sitones griseii-'^ taken on 

 broom at Horsall Common by Mr. Kemp and himself; (3) living larvae 

 and cases of the following Coleophorids : — C. genisUB from Loughton, 

 C. ccBHpititiellaivom. Loughton, C . pyrrhulipennella from Woking, 0. ulbi- 

 tarsella from Ashtead, and C. auricella from Locarno, the last-named 

 sent by Dr. Chapman. — Mr. Goulton, a variety of Xoctua festiva with 

 the external half of the wing beyond the stigmata of a very deep chest- 

 nut-brown ; and a variety of Plusia gamma having various red mark- 

 ings and darkenings, forming var. rufescens. — Mr. West (Greenwich), 

 specimens of three species of Hemiptera from Box Hill, Corimeliena 

 scarabceoides, Tropidostethxis holosericeus and Tettigometra impressopunctata. 

 — Mr. Carr, living larvae and cases of a Psychid, Bacotia septum, beaten 



