BUTTERFLIES OE THE MALIT PENINSULA, 



MAJOR GODFERY. 



Major Godferj gave a rapid sketch of the five great families 

 represented in the fauna of the Peninsula, with selected typical genera 

 and species to illustrate his remarks. Instances were given of the 

 discovery of new and rare butterflies in the Malay Peninsula, and the 

 subsequent discovery of the same species in the island of Borneo and 

 vice versa. The researches of Major (iodfery resulted in the addition of 

 some thirty species to the fauna, of which fourteen pi-oved to be new to 

 science. The principal buttei'flies new to science which he exhibited 

 were : New genus and species, Deramas livenn ; New species, Elymnias 

 Oodftryi, Charaxes Durnfordi, Ixias Birdi, Iraota Boswelliana, Tereas 

 lacteola, Papilio caunus (variety). — E.K.N.E.S., Jan. 10th, 1889. 



EoEMS Assumed by Spihogyra. — Captain McDakin exhibited, under 

 the microscope, a mass of the water plant Spirogyra. A remarkable 

 feature of the plant is the changes of form the mass undergoes in a few 

 hours, such as a corkscrew, the letter C, the conventional serpent about 

 to strike, the figure eight, a coiled serpent, and many cloud-like forms in 

 which we might trace the resemblance of other things. Although some 

 of these changes are due to evolved oxygen buoying up the mass, and to 

 variations of atmospheric pressure and temperature, the form is influenced 

 to a much greater extent by the electrical condition of the atmosphere. 

 During a thunderstorm on a dull morning in April, with no sudden 

 change in pressure, temperature, or light, the changes of form were 

 comparatively rapid, three radical forms being assumed in five hours, 

 ■with many intermediate gradations. 



A New British Snail. — Captain McDakin exhibited some specimens 

 of a Helix, found by Mrs. McDakin on the 25th October, 1890, in 

 the neighbourhood of Shepherdswell, Dover. The first shell found was 

 forwarded to Stanley Cox, Esq., of San Rcmo, Torquay, Devon, who 

 identified it with the Helix elegans of Gmelin. The same species of 

 snail has been found in S. Carolina, N. America. It has been hitherto 

 unrecorded as occurring in Britain. — E.K.N.H.8., Dec. 8, 1890. 



Separation of Metallic Allots. — Captain McDakin exhibited some 

 blow pipe beads, showing, by Colonel Boss's process, the separation of 

 alloys consisting of gold and silver, copper and silver, &c. The metals 

 separate at a red heat below their fusing point ; if the temperature is 



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