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a single example of Pollenia rudis, F., was swept into the 

 box. 



The cisterns had been kept quite free from flies by covering 

 loosely with boards on which layers of newspaper were spread. 

 A large scattered patch of flies was found between two of the 

 sheet. s. It was probable that the loft had been similarly 

 occupied in the winter of 1916. The repeated choice seemed 

 rather singular, for the loft was formed within the four steeply 

 pitched, slated sides of the roof of a, small tower, exposed to 

 the weather and enclosing probably the coldest part of the 

 roof-space. 



Hypolimnas (Euralia) dubia, Beauv., form wahlbergi, 

 Wallgr., at rest in the same spot after a week's 

 [NTERVAL. Prof. POULTON read an extract from a, letter 

 written by Mr. W. A. Lamborn, Nov. 5, 1917, from Tanga, 

 East Africa. It would be remembered that Mr. Lamborn 

 had made similar observations on species of Lycaenidae in 

 S. Nigeria (Proc. Ent. Hoc, 1912, p. xxxiii; 1913, p. xxii). 



I noticed one Sunday a wahlbergi female, with wings injured 

 in a particular manner, at rest under a mango, and on going 

 to the same spot a week later I found it still there. This 

 caused me to hunt for a possible food-plant, and I found two 

 little nettles of sorts in a fork of the tree. I broughl one 

 back with the butterfly, but 1 handled it so clumsily, thinking 

 at the time of something else, that it escaped, but I feel sure 

 that this must lie the East Coast food-plant, and probably 

 that of E. usambara, Ward, J expect, so that I feel I made 

 one little advance on that particular Sunday. I think usam- 

 bara the most imposing of them all, and 1 should so like to 

 do a little work on it." 



EPITOLA URANIA, KlRBY, ? = POSTHUMUS, F. Prof. PoUL- 

 TON said that he owed to Mr. J. J. Joicey the opportunity of 

 exhibiting the type of the West African K. urania from the 

 collection of the late Mr. 11. Grose-Smith, and of comparing 

 it with the series of posthumus in the British Museum. It 

 seemed a pity that there should be any uncertainty as to the 

 specific status of one of the most magnificent Lycaenids in 

 the world, and that Prnf. Auri\ illius should be obliged to 

 speak of urania in the words at the head of this paragraph 



