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Rare and Blind Beetles. — Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited 

 specimens of Dromius angustus, Brulle, and Cryptophagus 

 l<{ivendali, Ganglb., recently recorded by him from Woking 

 and the New Forest respectively ; also two species of the 

 Staphylinid genus Leptotyphlus and one of the Curculionid genus 

 Alaocyha, calling attention to the fact that these extremely 

 minute blind South-European insects were much smaller than 

 any known British representatives of the groups in question. 



Rhopalocera from the Canaries. — Col. C. Swinhoe ex- 

 hibited several boxes of butterflies taken by him during the 

 present year (1908) in the Canary Islands, chiefly from Grand 

 Canary and Teneriffe. They included amongst others Pieris 

 rapse showing a tendency to lose the black spots on the vipper 

 sides ot the wings, P. brassicee var. cheiranthi, Hb., P. daplidice, 

 Go'iiophri '• deobule, Chrysophauus phlxas, Vanessa atcdanla (a 

 rare spf'i •e.s in the islands), V. indica, var. vidcania, Godt. 

 (common I. Pyrameis cardui, Colias edusa, Argynnis pandora, 

 A^iathoi 'a, Pararge xiphia, var. xiphioides, Stgr., Epinephele 

 jywtimUf^h T. hispulla, and Lampides webhianus, the one butterfly 

 peculiar o the islands. He observed that with the exception 

 of the 1 st-mentioned all the species met with suggest a 

 foreign q^-'^gin. 



Papers. 



Mr. J. E. Collin communicated " Notes on the value of the 

 Genitalia of Insects as guides in Phylogeny," by Mr. W. 

 Weschi^, F.R.M.S. 



Dr. D. Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., communicated a paper " On 

 certain JS[ycteribiid£e, with descriptions of two new species from 

 Formosa," by Mr. Hugh Scott, B.A. (Cantab). 



Dr. J, L. Hancock, M.D., communicated a paper on 

 "Further studies of t)ie Tetriginx (Orthoptera) in the Oxford 

 University Museum." 



Mr. J. C. MouLTON read a paper on " Mimicry in Tropical 

 American Butterflies." 



Profes.aor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., read a paper on "Heredity 

 in Papiho dardamis from Natal, bred by Mr. G. F. Leigh, 

 F.E.S., 01 Durban," and exhibited, in illustration, a large 

 series of the forms of P. dardanus from Natal and Chirinda. 



