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Mr. 0. E. J ANSON exhibited a fine hermaphrodite specimen ot 

 Argynnis paphia taken in the New Forest by Mr. Herbert 

 Charles on July 28th, and recorded in The Entoi'noloyist ; 

 also a melanic specimen of Papilio demoleus from Ceylon in 

 which all the usual marginal and submarginal yellow markings 

 were absent and the discal markings much obscured ; on the 

 underside the yellow markings were entirely wanting. 



Mr. C. P. Pickett exhibited a ^ Callimoo'pha domimiki 

 with the hind-wings suffused with black, and an extra black 

 spot in the centre, the white spot on the fore-wings being 

 absent ; and a very large ? of the same species, bred from 

 larvfe found at Walmer at the end of March ; also three 

 aberrant^ specimens of Agrotis fimbria bred from larvte taken 

 at Wood Street during the same month. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse exhibited specimens of a wasp, 

 Zethus chalyheus, and a neuropteron, Mantisjxi semihyalina, 

 received with a collection of Hymenoptera from Rio Janeiro 

 suggesting a curious case of mimicry. 



Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited specimens of Hister merdariiijS 

 from Broxbourne, Herts, part of a large colony of this usually 

 scarce species found with Hister 12-striatus and other beetles 

 inhabiting a heap of a chemical substance, probably gas-lime, 

 in which also many larvae, presumably of Hister vierdarius, and 

 burrows were observed. The soil was warm and moist, and 

 this, and the presence of a quantity of vegetable refuse thrown 

 on the heap, was no doubt the atti'action to the Histers to 

 settle there. 



Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited a portion of the nest of Vesp(( 

 vidgaris containing a specimen of Metoecus paradoxus, which 

 had died just before emerging from the cell in which it had 

 grown. He pointed out that the insect kept its thorax at the 

 orifice of the cell, the head being tucked in, and that the 

 thorax was coloured yellow at the sides and black down the 

 middle, somewhat resembling the face of Vespa vulga/ris. 



A discussion followed, in which Professor Poulton, Mr. 

 WATERriousE, Dr. Chapman, and Mr. Chitty took part. 



Mr. H. Rowla.nd-Brown exhibited on behalf of Mr. G. F. 

 Leigh of Durban, a ? and <? specimen of a rare Noctuid, 

 3Iusgravia leighi, Hampson, discovered by him in Natal, and 



