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Mr. Eltringham said he would like to express his sincere 

 thanks to Dr. Jordan, to whom to a great extent the result 

 of the investigation was due. 



Probable Mimetic association op Aculeate Hymenoptera. 

 — The Eev. F. D. Morice brought for exhibition a number 

 of specimens of Aculeate Hymenoptera which he suggested 

 formed probably a Miillerian group. Though belonging to 

 several widely separated genera they were on the whole very 

 similarly coloured (most of them e. g. having yellowish-hyaline 

 wings with black tips). All were taken on a single occasion 

 visiting the small yellow flowers of one particular ti'ee in the 

 alluvion of the Wady Kelt, near Jericho. Another specimen 

 of the same tree grew close by, but no other (in spite of care- 

 fvil search) could be found anywhere in the neighbourhood. 

 Nor had the exhibitor, except on this one occasion, encountered 

 several of the largest and most striking species then taken in 

 the course of three weeks spent at Jericho and devoted 

 entirely to the search for Hymenoptera. The tree has since 

 been identified as one of the Ghenopodiaceae — Ochrademus 

 baccatus, Del. The insects included the magnificent Sphex 

 hirtus, Kohl, a large Fompilus, probably F. vesjnformis, Klug, 

 also Eumenes dimidiatipennis, Sauss., and an enormous Ody- 

 nei'us (apparently undescribed), whose coloration both of body 

 and wings exactly reproduced that of the Btcmenes. 



Professor E. B. Podlton, F.E.S., agreed with the exhibitor 

 that this was apparently a Miillerian group, and referred to 

 similar groups observed by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall in South 

 Africa and described in the Society's Transactions. The 

 insects, he said, while alive and in flight would appear even 

 more similar in their general appearance, than as now when 

 pinned in the carton. 



Butterflies from Central Italy. — Mr. A. H. Jones 

 exhibited a few butterflies collected during last summer at 

 Formia, near Naples, including Melanargia arge, probably the 

 most northerly limit of the species. Fine forms of II%p>parchia 

 semele, Satyrus statilimcs, Melitaea parthenie, and Lampides 

 hoeticus ; also various Lycaenidae, presenting little if any differ- 

 ence from the types found in the Swiss Alps. 



Aberrant Palabarctic Butterflies. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner 



