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With regard to Calinaga buddka it was very interesting 

 that Col. Jermyn had noted in the field the resemblance to 

 the tytia-agestor combination. It could hardly be doubted 

 that the Calinagas were themselves models for certain Chinese 

 and N. Indian Chalcosiine moths in which the reddish thorax 

 of the butterfly was represented by a patch of colour — orange- 

 brown in dried specimens — at the extreme base of the fore- 

 wings. Thus Clielura dejeani, Oberth., and Agalope davidi, 

 Oberth., probably mimicked Calinaga davidis, Oberth. ; 

 Chelura eronioides, Moore — Calinaga saka, Moore; and Ch. 

 hasiflava, Moore — Calinaga gautama, Moore. Furthermore, 

 the patterns of these Chalcosiine moths were associated with 

 other species of the same subfamily, which seemed to bear 

 no direct mimetic relationship with the Calinagas. The 

 patterns of these anomalous butterflies appeared to belong 

 to a large combination of Lepidoptera, including Danainae, 

 Nymphalinae, Pierinae, possibly one or more species of Par- 

 nassius, and day-flying moths. In addition to this relation- 

 ship, probably for the most part Mullerian, there was the 

 resemblance to the tytia-agestor association, observed by 

 Col. Jermyn. 



With regard to the combination of blue Euploeas, which 

 had been captured in the Naga Hills, Assam, on June 2, 3, 

 and 5, 1908, Prof. Poulton said he had long wanted to obtain 

 examples of the species which could be caught flying together 

 at the same time and place; also notes as to their relative 

 numbers. It was especially interesting that the central 

 dominant member of the combination exhibited to the meet- 

 ing should be the male of Euploea (Trepsichrois) mulciber, of 

 which the female was quite difierent in appearance, and 

 mimetic of a prevalent type of Danaine pattern (" Essays on 

 Evolution," Oxford, 1908, pp. 334, 335). 



Ammophila sabulosa, L., with only two submarginal 

 CELLS TO BOTH FORE-WRINGS. — A male A. sabulosa with two 

 instead of three submarginal cells in each fore-wing was 

 exhibited to the meeting by Prof. Poulton. Mr. Charbonnier 

 had first called attention to this interesting variation in the 

 specimen, which had been captured by Col. Jermyn at Shap- 

 wick Heath, on June 13, 1914. The variation was all the 



