( be ) 



at the apex of the fore-wing, and in some specimens it is very 

 much reduced, and the subapical spots of the underside of 

 the fore-wing are in some cases quite obsolete. 



" The Climaxes etheocles, Cram., I took at Mamboya was 

 $ form phaeus, Butl. [mimicking the o of Ch. bohemanni, 

 Feld.]. I enclose a small piece of food-plant of the Argiolaus 

 I wrote about. I have little doubt that it is A. silarus, 

 H. H. Druce, but it is remarkable that it is so common here, 

 as I believe it is generally a rare species." 



Prof. Poulton said that he had sent the piece of Loranthus 

 to Dr. Otto Stapf of the Kew Herbarium, who had kindly 

 written : " The Loranthus you sent is probably a new species 

 closely allied to L. proteicola, Engl., from the Kinga Moun- 

 tains. I have not been able to match it exactly with any of 

 our specimens. L. proteicola has been collected only once, 

 and we have merely a fragment of it. I can therefore not 

 say what its range of variation is, and whether your specimen 

 may not come after all within that range. Mr. Sprague, 

 who has monographed the African species of Loranthus- over 

 200 species in tropical Africa alone — is at present in India on 

 military duties." 



The confirmation of Dr. E. C. L. Perkins' conclusion 



THAT THE EARLY PALE SPRING FORM OF PARARGE AEGERIA, L., 

 RACE EGERIDES, STAUD., IS PRODUCED FROM OVER-WINTERING 



pupae. — Prof. Poulton exhibited the specimens of egerides 

 collected and bred by Dr. Perkins in 1917 together with the 

 1918 material, which confirmed the prediction published last 

 year (Ent. Eecord, vol. xxix, p. 202, 1917). The former 

 series had been kindly handed to him by Mr. H. J. Turner, 

 who had exhibited it at the South London Entomological 

 Society. The interesting evidence obtained in the present 

 year was described in the following extracts from Dr. Perkins' 

 letters and in his note : — 



" April 5, 1918. 



"' In a lew days now J shall, I hope, be sending you the 



new lot of ' Speckled Woods ' bred from over-wintered pupae. 



I had very few of these pupae, and of these two died, one 



produced a cripple, and one shows no sign of hatching. The 



