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Mr. Fletcher's exhibition also included {d) examples of a 

 small Pyralid moth (Syngamia Jloridalis). When flying, the 

 black marginal edging of the orange-red wings is practically 

 invisible, and the moth looks exactly like a Coccinnellid beetle. 

 This resemblance is so close that on at least one occasion the 

 moth was actually netted under the impression that it was one 

 of the beetles which forms its model, and (e) a yellow-spotted 

 Reduviid bug, Acanthaspis quinquespinosa, Fab., an interesting 

 case of warning coloration common to various Carabid beetles 

 found in the same locality and situations (under logs, etc.). 

 In life both these insects are extremely similar in general 

 appearance, and both are protected by the emission of a very 

 powerful and noxious odour. 



Birds attacking Butterflies. — Mr. Fletcher further said 

 that he could add at least two instances of birds attacking 

 butterflies noted by him in Ceylon : i. Nej)tis eurynome pursued, 

 caught and eaten by a small bird locally called the " Ceylon 

 robin." This was at Diyatalawa in September 1906. 



ii. At Galle on June 20th, 1908, he saw a droogo fly down 

 from a tree and attack a i^ Elymnias undidaris, which was 

 flying close to him. The bird missed it once but took it at the 

 second attempt, flew up to the branch of a coco-nut palm and 

 devoured it. * 



Specimens of both these butterflies were exhibited. 



Wednesday, June 2nd, 1909. 



Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., President, in the Chair. 



Election of Fellows. 

 Mr. Frank Price Jbpson, of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 

 and Thanet Lodge, Bromley, Kent ; Mr. Ernest Charles 

 Chubb, of the Rhodesia Museum, Buluwayo, South Africa ; 

 Mr. John F. Musham, of 53, Brook Street, Selby, Yorks., and 

 Mr. Oscar Cecil Silverlock, of " Allington," Burbage Road, 

 Heme Hill, S.E., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



