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Professor Poulton said that the ample material kindly 

 sent by Mr. "Wiggins had now shown beyond any doubt 

 that Pseudacraea tirikensis, Neave, was the female of Ps. 

 hohleyi of the same author, the two sexes being mimetic of 

 different species of Planema. This last point was an interest- 

 ing one, inasmuch as the sexes of the mimetic Pseudacraeas 

 usually mimic the corresponding sexes of the same species of 

 model. Here, however, the female hohleyi was a beautiful 

 mimic of the female of Planema alcinoe, while the male of 

 hohleyi did not mimic the male alcinoe but bore the closest 

 superficial resemblance to both sexes of Planema jjoggei. 



The speaker expressed the hope that Mr. C. A. Wiggins 

 would persist in his investigation of this deeply interesting 

 locality, and continue his kind and most efficient help to the 

 study of mimicry by forwarding the captures of single days 

 selected at intervals up to the end of next May, thus complet- 

 ing an entire year. It was to be hoped and expected that 

 more light would thus be thrown on the study of mimicry than 

 has ever yet been received from any source whatever. 



Pare and Aberrant Lbpidoptbra. — Mr. H. J. Turner 

 exhibited [a) two extremely small Cupido oniniinus, taken 

 with normal-sized specimens near Winchester on June 

 12th, 1909. The expanse of wings was 15 mm. He had 

 similarly small specimens from Galway and from the Sepey 

 Road, near Aigle, Rhone Valley ; (h) an example of Anihocera 

 achilleae, in which the blotches on the fore-wings were all 

 fused together, giving at a casual glance the appeai-ance of a 

 small A., captured at Gex, Ain, France, on August 11th, 

 1909 ; (c) a white aberration, ab. alha, of Rumicia phlaeas, 

 taken at Brasted, Kent, on August 28th. This rai'e form has 

 usually been reported as ab. schmidtii, but, as Mr. Tutt has 

 pointed out in "British Butterflies," Vol. I, pp. 357-8, the 

 latter form is straw-coloured ; and {d) examples of Heodes vir- 

 gaureae var. miegii, a form of the S in which a large dis- 

 coidal spot and a transverse partial row of black dots near the 

 apex of the fore-wings are developed, and var. zermattensis, a 

 form of the ^ in which the usual copper colour is suppressed 

 and much of the area has become more or less dusky. They 

 were taken at Zermatt in early August. The form miegii is 



