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Dutch New Guinea, including a local race of Ornithoptera para- 

 disea, Stgr. He observed that this was the first record of a <? 

 of this species from Dutch New Guinea. The form flavescens, 

 Roths., from S.W. Dutch New Guinea was only known in 

 the ?, and this was similar to the typical form. The 

 $ from the Arfak was most interesting as more resembling 

 meridionalis, Roths. ; 2 (JcJ and 4 ? ? of this specialised form 

 were obtained. Other specimens shown comprised a local 

 race of Danaida weisJcei, Roths., a Platypthima, an Abisara, 

 two forms of Dicallaneura, five forms of Diacrisia, including 

 one with an ^rc^m-like pattern quite unlike any other in 

 this somewhat extended genus, two Noctuidac, one con- 

 stituting a new genus, four Lymantriadae, a new genus of 

 Eupterotidae, and both sexes of the curious Chalcosiid Aglaope 

 hemileuca, Roths., hitherto only known in the cj" from British 

 New Guinea. 



The Italian mode of exclusion of the House-fly. — 

 The Rev. F. D. Morice drew attention to a paper in the Trans. 

 Ent. Soc, vol. i (1836) by W. Spence on this subject, in which 

 it was stated that flies were excluded even by large mesh 

 netting over the windows, provided there was no through 

 light, and to another paper by his son, W. B. Spence, on a 

 passage in Herodotus in which he states that certain fisher- 

 men kept off mosquitoes by covering themselves with their 

 fishing nets. 



Mr. J. Platt Barrett said that he had found the system 

 ineffectual in Sicily, but that it was possible that through 

 light had been admitted. 



Messrs. Rowland-Brown and Durrant also commented. 



Further Notes on the habits of the African ant 

 Megaponera foetens, F. — Prof. Poulton read the following 

 account sent to him March 27, 1915, by Mr. C. 0. Farquharson 

 at Moor Plantation, Ibadan, S. Nigeria : — 



" While I was living in the Agege district, some twelve 

 miles north of Lagos, in the year 1912, I saw on one or two 

 occasions what appeared to me to be an army of Stink Ants 

 (Pcdiolltj/ietts iarsatus, ¥.), which large species abounds there. 

 They had evidently been on a foray, which had resulted in 

 the rout of the enemy, the latter a species of Termite; for 



