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It would be of great interest to trace the relationship between 

 the periods at which the two forms flew at Ambinanindrano 

 and the seasons of Madagascar and of India and Ceylon 

 respectively. It was hoped that the results of this compari- 

 son would be communicated to some future meeting. 



2. Acraea encedon, L. — Twenty sganzini, Boisd., and ten 

 encedon, captured between Oct. 16, 1914, and Jan. 19, 1915. 

 The whole series only included a single female — a sganzini 

 taken Jan. 18. Many of the specimens were captured at the 

 same time and place — 10 sganzini and 4 encedon, Oct. 29 ; 

 5 sganzini and 3 encedon, Nov. 5. The division into the two 

 forms was sharp. The subapical bar of the fore- wing varied 

 in both forms, being yellowish in 8 sganzini, paler in 11 

 (including the female) and worn but probably similar in 1 ; 

 yellow in 5 encedon, white or very faintly yellowish white 

 in 5. All the encedon were dull and dark, resembling the 

 continental form described by Aurivillius as infuscata. The 

 whole series confirmed the conclusions as to the Madagascar 

 forms and their relationship with those of Africa, published 

 in Linn. Soc. Journ. Zool., vol. xxxii, 1914, p. 395, although 

 the predominance of sganzini in the series now exhibited 

 was less than in the previously recorded captures taken as 

 a whole. 



3. Charaxes analava. Ward, and Papilio meriones, Feld. — 

 Concerning this Charaxes, captured Feb. 6, 1915, Archdeacon 

 Kestell-Cornish had written : " There is a bad specimen of 

 a butterfly I have never caught before. In flight it is not 

 unlike Papilio meriones, but the underside is very different." 

 From this description it seemed probable that the ordinary 

 Charaxes flight was modified in the species and that on the 

 wing there was mimicry of the Swallowtail. Papilio meriones 

 was evidently common at Ambinanindrano, and several 

 examples had been sent. 



4. Heteropsis drepana, Dbl.-Westw.-Hew. — Two females 

 of this remarkable and very rare Satyrine were exhibited. 

 Both had been taken Oct. 12, 1914. 



A Uganda bug devouring a Lycaenid butterfly. — Prof. 

 PouLTON exhibited a pair of Mononyx grandicollis, Germ. 

 (Cryptocerata), captured in cop. on a bird-dropping on wet 



