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crawling on the ground at night, and detected by means of a 

 small spot of light at the head ; but on being touched it 

 instantly emitted a much stronger light from every part or 

 joint of the abdomen, which previously was quite dark. The 

 light proceeded only from the under part : the back was dark 

 at all times." The date was March 1, 1829, and the locality 

 Porto Real (now Porto Na^ionale) on the River Tocantins. 

 The observation is quoted in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1904, 

 xiii., p. 100, where, however, it is assumed that the larva, which 

 had not then been found, was a Lampyrid. Burchell thought 

 that the larva was probably that of " 1334," a Lampyrid (taken 

 on March 2, 1829) identified by Monsieur Jules Bourgeois as 

 Photuris lineola, Blanch. 



Commander J. J. Walker exhibited the type-specimen of 

 HaiyJothorax hurchelli, G. A. Waterhouse, from the Hope 

 Collection, Oxford University Museum. This veiy remarkable 

 Carabid was discovered by the celebrated South African 

 traveller, W. J. Burchell, in St. Helena. It is now exceeding!}^ 

 rare in its sole locality, the late Mr. Wollaston, during his 

 visit to the island in 1875-6, having entirely failed to find 

 the beetle alive, though its dead and mutilated remains were 

 often met with. Described Trans. Ent. Soc. III. p. 207, 

 plate XII, f. 1. 



The President exhibited cases showing the results of 

 recent breeding experiments upon Papilio cpnea conducted at 

 Durban by Mr. G. F. Leigh, who had for the first time bred 

 the form trophoniics from iropho7iius itself. Mr. Leigh had 

 watched a trophonhis laying eggs, and, although he failed to 

 catch the parent, a considerable number of eggs were obtained 

 These produced males, females of the cenea form, and a single 

 trophonius female. A careful comparison of the whole synepi- 

 gonic group would be presented to the Society at a later date. 

 Adding this result to the records published in Mr. Leigh's 

 paper in Part IV. of the Transactions (1904, p. 677), it will 

 be found that the form CPMea has produced cenea and a small 

 proportion of hippocoonoides, while the form trophonius has 

 produced cenea and a small proportion of trophoniuf^. Hippo- 

 coonoides has not yet been bred from trophonins, nor has 

 trophonius from cenea. Hippocoonoides has not been bred 



