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Prof. Poutton said that in view of Mr. Eltringham’s 
researches on Amauris niavius, L., he wished now to withdraw 
the suggestion that scent was conveyed from the brushes to 
‘the brands (Proc. Ent. Soc., 1911, pp. xlvi, xlvu). It was 
obviously more probable that scent secreted in the brands was 
conveyed to the brushes. 
Mr. Lamborn had now three times observed the brushing 
of the brands by male Danaines, and, as far as Prof. Poulton 
was aware, no other naturalist had ever seen this operation, 
although it was probably performed several times by all the 
males of many species which were among the commonest 
of tropical butterflies. He hoped that naturalists would now 
make a special point of watching male Danaini and Euploeinc. 
It would be especially interesting to observe the insertion of 
the tufts into the pockets of certain Danaini, such as the species 
of Tirumala and Danaida, and in the Euploeini to ascertain 
whether the brands on the part of the hind-wing that is over- 
lapped by the fore-, as well as those existing on the fore-wing 
itself, bore a similar relationship to the anal tufts. He much 
hoped that Oriental naturalists would settle this question for us. 
Mr. W. A. LAMBOoRN’S OBSERVATIONS ON THE COURTSHIP OF 
A LyciD BEETLE.—Prof. Pouuron exhibited a set of four males 
and one female, and another of two males and one female, of 
Metriorrhynchus semiflabellatus, Thoms. Both sets were cap- 
tured on Uvrena lobata, July 16, 1913, at Moor Plantation, 
near Ibadan, 8. Nigeria. Of the first set Mr. Lamborn had 
written: “ Two of these were im coitu and the other three 
were clinging to them’’; of the second set: ‘‘ Two beetles 
in coitu, the third, an unsuccessful suitor, clinging to the 
successful male.’’ Prof. Poulton said that these observations 
might be compared with Mr. Lamborn’s earlier record, in 
Proc. Ent. Soc., 1911, p. xev, of three males of the Acraeine 
butterfly Planema alcinoe, Felder, clinging to a female in 
coitu with a fourth male. The Acraeinae and the Lycidae were 
both distasteful groups with aposematic colours, and it was 
reasonable to suppose that the increased conspicuousness 
produced by such masses of individuals was not harmful 
to them as it would be to palatable species. Mr. C. J. Gahan 
had kindly determined the species. 
