(sav) 
then mounted on cards in the manner now shown. The card 
affords space for particulars of locality and other data. By 
this method, a single specimen will produce two complete 
transfers, one half of each transfer representing the upper and 
the other half the under surface of the wings of one side of the 
insect. It will be realised that the scales are shown only in 
reverse. This does not affect the pattern in any way, and— 
in most cases—effects little or no alteration in the colour, 
except in the case of iridescent butterflies, in which the colour 
is due to surface sculpturing of the scales. In some other 
butterflies the blue and green markings are apt to disappear 
during the process. This is found to be due to the fact that 
the blue (or green) colouring of such butterflies is contained in 
the wing-membrane itself, the coloured parts being covered by 
transparent colourless scales. The black and blue Danainae 
afford good examples of this phenomenon. A transfer of Danais 
septentrionis, for instance, results in a pattern consisting of a 
black ground with pure white spots; while the descaled wing 
shows a membrane with a colourless ground and blue spots 
corresponding with the white parts of the transferred pattern. 
The Rev. F. D. Morice observed that in other orders than 
Lepidoptera scaleless wings were sometimes highly coloured. 
Dr. CHapMAN (and other Fellows) pointed out that this 
method of scale transference had been frequently employed, 
and mentioned in particular an American book entirely 
illustrated in this way, and also the specimens prepared by 
Mr. R. M. Prideaux, with the bodies, legs and antennae so 
painted in as almost to defy detection. 
A NortHern Locariry FoR TETRAMORIUM CAESPITUM.— 
Mr. DonistHorPE exhibited a specimen of Tetramorium 
caespitum, L., 8, from a colony found by Mr. Evans on the 
Bass Rock in Scotland, March 21, 1913. He pointed out that 
the most northern records known in Britain were Denbigh in 
Wales, and Cambridgeshire and Suffolk in England, and showed 
a map of the distribution in the British Isles. 
Ants From Ecyprt.—Mr. W. C. Craw.ey exhibited the 
following species, sub-species, etc., which were taken at 
Helonan during Dec. and Jan. last :—Messor barbarus, L., 
race aegyptiacus, Em., 3, 2, $; M. barbarus, race striaticeps, 
