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Alfred R. Wallace, and suggested that it was a good example 

 of mimetic resemblance to a wasp. Dr. Wallace was at first 

 inclined to doubt this interpretation, but when asked whether 

 he had ever seen the beetle move he recalled the habits of 

 the allied Oriental species and at once admitted the resemldance. 

 The movements of the English species were described by the 

 President in 1890 ("Colours of Animals," p. 250) : " The slender 

 wasp-like legs are moved in a rapid somewhat jerky manner, 

 very different from the usual stolid Coleopterous stride, but 

 remarkably like the active movements of a wasp, which always 

 seem to imply the perfection of training." 



Mr. L. li. PuouT exhibited, on behalf of Mr. A. IJacot, 

 long-bred series of Triphvna comes, Hb., the result of breed- 

 ing for two generations from a wild 9 of the curtisii form, 

 taken near Forres. In the first generation, rather more than 

 half the progeny followed, to a certain extent, the parent 9 > 

 though varying from rich deep red to almost black. Pairings 

 of these dark specimens resulted in a brood in which the 

 percentage of ub. curtisii was slightly increased, although the 

 type forms were still well represented ; but it was noticeable 

 that in every specimen the orbicular stigma was filled up 

 with the darker or luelanic coloiu'. 



Paj^ers. 



Mr. AuTiiUR M. Lea communicated " Notes on Australian 

 and Tasmaniau Ci-yptocephalides, with descriptions of New 

 Species." 



Mr. CiLnEUT J. Arrow communicated "A Revision of the 

 subfamily I'elidnotinx of the Coleopterous family Rutelidse, 

 with descriptions of Now Genera and Species," by the late 

 Frederick Bates, 



Colonel Chari.es Swiniioe, M.A., F.L.S,, read a paper " On 

 some new species of Eastern Australian and African INIoths 

 in the British Museum." 



Mr. George Charles Champion, F.Z.S., read a paper on 

 " An Entomological Excursion to Moncayo, Spain, with Some 

 Remarks on the Habits of Xyleborus dispar, Fabr., by l)v. 

 Thomas Algernon Chapuian, M.D." 



Mr. Ken'neth J. IMoirrox communicated " Further Notes 



