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these two forms are one species has cleared up two or three 

 other similar cases of Butterflies occurring in other parts of 

 the world, that have forms of totally different colour, but are 

 structurally the same. With regard to the examples exhibited 

 Mr. Leigh said that although the zoolina form are consistent 

 in both the wet and dry season, there are two quite distinct 

 forms of the neanthes variety. 



Pcq^ers. 



Mr. H. Eltringham, M.A., F.Z.S., read a paper on 

 " Edibility Experiments with Larvae and Lizards." 



Mr. F. Enock, E.L.S., read a paper on "New British 

 Mymaridae," and illusti'ated his remarks with a number of 

 lantern slides of both sexes of the species discovered and de- 

 scribed by him. 



The following papers were also read : — 



" On the Characters and Relationships of the less-known 

 groups of Lamellicorn Coleoptera, with Descriptions of new 

 species of Hyhosormae, etc.," by Gilbert J. Arrow. 



" A list of Chrysids taken b}^ the writer in two visits to 

 Jaffa, Jerusalem and Jericho, with descriptions of new species," 

 by the Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A. 



" A Revision of the African Species of the genus Lycaenes- 

 thes,^' by G. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S. 



Mr. G. 0. Dudgeon communicated the following notes on 

 (a) Teratoneura isabellae, n. sp. ; (h) Stuyeta inarinorea, Butl. ; 

 (c) Argyrocheila undifera, Staudg. ; {d) Lycaenesthes, sp. ; (e) 

 Mycalesis abnormis, n. sp. ; {/) Acraea itseudepaea, n. sp., 

 Planema ejxiea, Cram. ; and {g) Acraea vespercdis, Grose-Smith, 

 and sent for exhibition examples to illustrate his remarks. 



" Family Lycaenidae. — The specimen exhibited (a), belongs 

 to the sub-family Lipteninae, but cannot be assigned to any 

 described African genus. It seems to have affinities with 

 Aslauga and Epitola, but differs from both in the shape of 

 the wings and the distortion of veins 2 and 3 of the fore-wing. 

 That wing possesses the full complement of veins, 7, 8 and 9 

 being on a stalk arising from the end of the cell, which latter 

 is closed by nearly straight discocellular veins ; 6 free from 

 near the origin of the stalk of 7, 8 and 9 ; 5 given off from 



