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ment of the abdomen instead of being acuminate, were rather 
broad, obliquely truncate at the apex, slightly concave above, 
dull. 
Mr. Millar in his letter said—‘‘I have only once heard of 
such a thing being seen here; the boys who brought it me 
told me it was being fed by the others.” 
Mr. G. A. K. MarsHat gave an account of his experiences 
with this genus in Rhodesia, South Africa, and Colonel C. T. 
BincHam said he had dug three days in India, but failed to 
find the females. 
ABERRANT ForMS OF Swiss Butrerriies.—The Rev. F, E. 
Lowe showed various aberrant forms of Swiss butterflies, 
including (a) Melanargia galatea, ab. fulvata, Lowe, from 
Martigny, in which the ordinary black markings were re- 
placed by coffee-brown, the antenne being also of the same 
colour, and the ground-colour primrose ; (6) Lycena arion, ab., 
from Pontresina, with the black spots on the under-side of the 
wings almost entirely absent, save one very large kidney-shaped 
spot, slightly tinged with white at the centre of each wing ; 
(c) Apatura iris, ab. trans. ad iole on the upper-side, taken at 
Felépens, near Lausanne ;_ the under-side very dark, the broad 
chestnut bands, which cross the wings diagonally, without 
the least intersection of bluish-white as in the type; no eyed 
chestnut spots at the lower angle of the primaries. It is 
not usual for iole to display any variation from the type on 
the under-side ; (d) two Caenonympha pamphilus, one from 
Ecldpens, suffused with a purplish-flush, and the whole ground- 
colour more tawny-red than the type; the other, from Orta 
Novarese, a 9, rich cream-white with the borders light grey, 
and not sharply defined but somewhat cloudy ; over the whole 
wing surface an opalescent reflection, suggesting a parallel to 
Chrysophanus phleas, ab. schmidtii, Gerhard. 
GyNANDROMORPHOUS Sawriy.—The Rev. F. D. Mortcr 
exhibited a very remarkable gynandromorphous specimen of 
the common fern-visiting Sawfly, Strongylogaster cingulutus, 
F. It was taken at Silchester on June 10th, 1906, by Mr. 
Philip Harwood, of Newbury, and communicated to the 
exhibitor by his brother, Mr. Bernard Harwood, of Colchester. 
Its general size and habit were those of a ¢, but the left 
