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It has probably been passed over in the field as merely i^ubi, 

 but could hardly be so in the collection, though the only 

 specimen seen by the exhibitor, and not in his own possession, 

 is one in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, 

 series of C. ruhi, labelled " Tangier, Elwes coll." The species 

 is doubtless scarce and local. Dr. Chapman said he hoped to 

 submit later a paper on the species giving some details of 

 habits and life history ; he thought it better not at present 

 to forestall any interest that communication might possess. 



He ventured to say, however, in case the present exhibit 

 left any doubt as to whether C. avis might not be merely a 

 variety of C. rubi, that thei^e were great differences in the 

 larvae, of M'hich also he exhibited examples in the last instar. 

 The most remarkable was perhaps in the first stage. In two 

 species, so closely allied, one rather expected there would be no 

 appreciable difference between them in the first stage. There 

 were, however, not only differences of colour and markings, 

 but notable differences in the development of the hairs. 



Forms of Pararge Aegeria. — Dr. Chapman also showed two 

 examples of Fararge aegeria from Southern France, with a 

 typical Southern specimen (aegeo'ia), and an English one 

 (aegerides), for comparison, and remarked that it was no 

 exaggeration to say that the two specimens were about as far 

 from aegeria in one direction as aegerides is in the opposite, 

 and much more extreme than any examples in the Natural 

 History Museum. As it occurs on the same ground as the 

 type, it is most likely an aberration, but it is not highly 

 improbable that it is a Mendelian variety. 



Butterflies from Durban. — Dr. T. P. Lucas, who was 

 present as a visitor, brought for exhibition a box containing 

 thirty-one species of butterflies taken by him in the neighbour- 

 hood of Durban in two hours. He also gave a short account 

 of the abundance of Lepidoptera at Brisbane, Queensland. 



Rare British Beetle. — Mr. E. C. Bedwell exhibited two 

 examples of the myrmecophilous beetle, Hetaerius Jerrugineus, 

 01., from Box Hill, a species not recorded from Britain for 

 forty-six years. 



The species was first captured by Mr. E. W. Janson in 1848 

 at Hampstead with Formica fasca and F. Jlava, and again in 



