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from Yarmouth, I. W. — Mr. M. Burr exhibited a living adult male 

 earwig, Labidura riparia, Pall., captured near Boscombe at the end of 

 August, 1903. He said that the very noticeable pale coloration 

 becomes darker after death, sometimes nearly black, which might 

 account for some of the numerous "colour-varieties." — Dr. Norman 

 Joy exhibited a specimen of Argynnis sdcne, taken last year in Berk- 

 shire, showing a remarkable tendency to melanism. He also exhibited 

 rare Coleoptera taken in tlje same county during 1903. — Sir George 

 Hampson exhibited a collection of Norwegian butterflies made by him 

 on the Dovrefjeld, on the Alten fiord, at Bossekop and other localities 

 this year. The specimens included fine series of C'olias liecla, Lef., 

 Chrysophanus Jiippothoevar. stieberi, Gerh., CEneis noma, Thnb., MeliUca 

 var. norvegica, Auriv., the Norwegian form of M. aurelia, Argynnis 

 freija, and A. frigga, a Labrador, arctic, and North American species, 

 now found further south at Kongsvold for the first time. — Mr. A. H. 

 Jones exhibited examples of Erebia christi, taken this summer in the 

 Laquinthal, and of the species of Erebia to which it is allied ; a local 

 form of Satyi-us actaa, var. cordida, captured last July at Sierre ; and 

 a short series of Chrysophanus dorilis (type) and C. var. subalpina from 

 the Laquinthal, with P. hippotho'e var. eurybia, showing the strong 

 resemblance on the upper surface which the female of this latter 

 species bears to the female subalpina. — Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited 

 specimens of a Proctotrupid which he said approached Poncra constricta, 

 Latr., in appearance, and might be an Isobrachium. If so it was new 

 to the British list. — Mr. H. Willoughby Ellis exhibited Criocephalus 

 polonicus, Motsch, a Longicorn beetle new to Great Britain, from the 

 New Forest, and also specimens of all stages from the egg to the 

 imago, to illustrate the life-history of the species which he explained. 

 He also exhibited Asemum striatuvi, L., with larva and pupa, accounted 

 heretofore rare in the New Forest, but this year occurring in abun- 

 dance. — Mr. Ambrose Quail exhibited cases showing the life-history 

 of some Australian Hepialid^e. — Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., exhibited 

 specimens illustrative of the egg-cases and life-history of eight 

 species of South African Cassididfe, as described in a paper by Mr. F. 

 Muir and himself. — Mr. W. L. Distant also showed the pupa cases 

 of some African species of Aspidomorpha with the cast heads of the 

 larvae. — Mr. Eoland Trimen, F.R.S., exhibited some cases of mimicry 

 between butterflies inhabiting the Kavirondo-Nandi district of the 

 Uganda British Protectorate, particularly that in which Planema poggei, 

 Dewitz, is imitated by an apparent variety of Pseudacrtea kunowii, 

 Dewitz, and also by a hitherto undescribed form of the polymorphic 

 female Papilio merope, Cram. This makes the fourth pronounced 

 known form of the female Papilio merope. The usual and generally 

 distributed form of this sex throughout Tropical Africa is that named 

 hippocoon by Fabricius — an excellent mimic of Amnuris niavius, L. ; 

 all the other forms appear to be very rare, and two of them — diomjsos, 

 Doubl., and the form from Zanzibar described in the Presidential 

 Address to the Society on January 19th, 1898 — are not direct mimics 

 of any other butterflies, but are least divergent from the non-mimetic 

 coloration and pattern of the male. — The President congratulated 

 Mr. Trimen on the exhibit, and the special interest attaching to an 

 interpretation of this remarkable form of the female merope. At the 



