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form is in the Durban district. His results furthermore 
showed, as the speaker had anticipated, that the proportion of 
the 2 forms to be observed in any locality was a safe criterion 
of the proportion that will be obtained by breeding. It was 
particularly interesting to find so marked a contrast between 
localities not more distant than §.E. Rhodesia is from Natal. 
Mr. Swynnerton would be sailing for England in October, and 
it was therefore to be hoped that the whole of this material 
would be shown by him to the Society later in the present 
year or early in 1914. 
AN IMPORTED JAPANESE Locustip.—Mr. W. J. Lucas 
exhibited, on behalf of Dr. Burr, a specimen of Diestrammena 
marmorata, Haan, a Stenopelmatid Locustid from Japan, which 
occurs alive in Relf’s Nursery at St. Leonards; (v. Ent. Rec. 
for Sept. 1913, p. 228). The insect is carnivorous. 
ARASCHNIA LEVANA IN THE Forest or Dran.—Mr. H. 
RowianD-Brown brought for exhibition an example of 
Araschnia levana, sent him by Mr. T. Butt Ekins of Penarth, 
who said that he had captured it at the end of May this year 
on the outskirts of the Forest of Dean, close to the banks of 
the Wye, where there is an abundance of undergrowth, in- 
cluding nettle. The example was a female in good condition; 
this was the first reported authentic capture of the species in 
a wild state in the United Kingdom. 
AN ABERRATION OF CoLias Epusa.—Comm. J. J. WALKER 
exhibited a 2 Colias edusa, F., taken by himself in the Isle of 
Sheppey, August 21, 1913, in which the margin of the hind- 
wings was almost entirely clear golden yellow, the usual black 
border being reduced to three or four spots; the yellow 
markings in the border of the fore-wings were also much 
extended. 
AN IMPORTED AMERICAN SYNTOMID.—Comm. WALKER also 
exhibited a specimen of a Syntomid moth, a Ceramidia near 
C. chloroplegia, Druce, taken by a lady in a fruiterer’s shop 
in North Oxford, evidently just emerged from the pupa, and 
brought alive to the exhibitor September 18, 1913. It had no 
doubt been imported with fruit, probably bananas. 
ScARCE AND ABERRANT COLEOPTERA.—Comm. WALKER also 
exhibited the following Coleoptera :— 
