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Exhibitions, etc. 
The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited male and female 
specimens of Ornithoptera paradisea, Stdgr., from Finisterre 
Mountains, New Guinea; O. trojana, Stdgr., from Palawan ; 
O. andromache, Stdgr., from Kina Balu, Borneo; (/netus 
mirabilis, Rothsch., from Cedar Bay, Queensland ; and a few 
other splendid species from the Upper Amazons. The 
President, Mr. J. J. Walker, Mr. Osbert Salvin, Lord 
Walsingham, Colonel Lang, R.E., Mr. Champion, and Mr. 
Hampson made remarks on the geographical distribution of 
some of the species and the elevation at which they were taken. 
Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. G. A. J. Rothney, several 
specimens of a species of Hemiptera (Serinetha augur, Fab.), 
and of a species of Lepidoptera (Phauda flammans, Walk.), 
the latter of which closely resembled and mimicked the 
former, He said that Mr. Rothney had found both species 
abundantly on the roots and trunks of trees in Mysore, in 
November last, in company with Ants (several species of 
Camponotus and Cremastogaster). The Hemiptera appeared to: 
be distasteful to the Ants, as they were never molested by 
them, and he thought that the species of Lepidoptera was 
undoubtedly protected from attack by its close imitation of 
the Hemipteron. Mr. Goss said he was indebted to Mr. C. J. 
Gahan for determining the species. A discussion followed on 
the mimicking species, in which the President, Mr. Water- 
house, Mr. J. J. Walker, Colonel Swinhoe, Mr. Hampson, 
and others took part. 
Mr. J. W. Tutt exhibited (1) a type specimen of Lycena 
corydon, captured in July, 1898 ; (2) a hybrid male (L. corydon 
and L, adonis), taken in copula with a typical female L. adonis, 
May 20th, 1893; (8) a typical male L. adonis, May 20th, 
1893; (4) a female L. adonis, the pigment failing in one hind- 
wing ; (5) a pale var. of L. corydon, probably to be referred to 
var. apennina of Zeller, usually taken in Italian mountains, 
or var. albicans, H. §., taken in Andalusia. Mr. Tutt re- 
marked that, of the first, Staudinger (Cat. p. 12) says 
‘‘ pallidior,” of the latter ‘‘albicans.’’ He also remarked 
that the hybrid retains the external features of the species 
corydon, but has taken on to a great extent the coloration of 
