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the Brit. Mus. Coll., was described in Stett. Ent. Ztg., 1845, 

 p. 351. Another in the Brit. Mus. Coll. is labelled " Shar 

 Dei-esy, Leech Coll." ; others had been noted by Dr. Keynes 

 from the Pyrenees (Ent. Rec, xx., p, 178) as Agriades coridon 

 var. corydonius, and Mr. Tutt said that he had little doubt 

 that the A. coridon var. calydonius, Lowe, was also A. hybr. 

 polonus, Zell. Staudinger's treatment of the insect in his Cat., 

 2nd ed., p. 12, and Cat., 3rd ed., p. 86, had hopelessly muddled 

 the matter, and, in combining it with the blue forms of A. 

 coridon taken in Asia Minor and Aragon, and treating it as 

 a variety of A. thetis (bellargus), had altogether lost touch 

 of the real value of this remarkable form. The speaker stated 

 that the full histoxy of this insect has been recently published 

 in Vol. iii of "A Natural History of British Butterflies," 

 pp. 323-325. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman, Mr. Tutt, and Mr. Wheeler discussed 

 the number of broods of A. coridon in South Europe, the 

 opinion of Mr. Wheeler being that it was double, or even 

 sometimes triple brooded. 



Mr. Tutt, however, largely dissented from this view. There 

 was no real evidence, he said, that the species was anywhere 

 double-brooded in the Palaearctic area, except along the 

 Mediterranean littoral, from Hy^res to Genoa, and possibly 

 at Nimes, whilst its supposed double-broodedness in Italy 

 was at present largely problematical. Indeed, the general 

 single-broodedness of this species, and the double-broodedness 

 of A. thetis, together with the difference in the hybernating 

 stage, were in his opinion two of the most important 

 biological elements in the differentiation of these closely- 

 allied species. He was anxious to obtain definite and 

 reliable information on the point of the double-broodedness of 

 A. coridon, especially in Spain and Asia Minor, but he was 

 unable to accept as satisfactory evidence, mere opinion based 

 on the fact that A. coridon can be caught in any given place 

 from late June to early October. This happens in England ; 

 but there is no question involved in this fact of its possible 

 double-broodedness here. 



West African Lycaenid. — Mr. G-. Talbot showed a 

 remarkable new Lycaenid butterfly from the Cameroons — now 



