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Mr. E. E. Piatt and dated March 12, 1915, from 403 Essen- 

 wood Road, Durban : — 



" I witnessed an incident the other day that may be of 

 interest to you. I was watching a female Hypolimnas misippus 

 L., var. inaria, Cr., laying eggs on some Portulaca in my 

 garden. As she was on the wing a bird flew down, carried 

 her off in a flash, and retired to a neighbouring tree. I 

 managed to get a good view of the bird, and saw the body 

 of the butterfly devoured, while some wings fluttered down. 

 I described the bird to Mr. Millar, and he showed me a Paradise 

 Flycatcher, Tchitrea [Terpsiphone) perspicillata, Swains., which 

 I had no hesitation in identifying as the culprit. I had been 

 watching the butterfly for some time from the verandah, in 

 company with my little boy, and it was not more than 8 feet 

 away from us when the tragedy occurred. I expect the bird 

 did not see us, as we were sheltered. 



" The corresponding dorippus, Klug {klugii, Butl.), form 

 of Danaida chrysippus, L., is very rare here, and I have only 

 taken one specimen— a case of the mimic being commoner 

 than the model, although not so common here as the ordinary 

 type form of ?, mimicking the black-tipped white-barred 



D. chrysippus which is so abundant with us. It might have 

 been more interesting if the victim had been of this commoner 

 mimetic female form. I may say that H. misippus is more 

 plentiful here this year than I have known it before." 



Comments were made by Dr. Longstaff and Mr. Swynner- 



TON. 



Papers. 

 The following papers were read : — 



" New Lepidoptera from New Guinea," by J. J. Joicey, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S., A. NoAKES, F.E.S., and G. Talbot, F.E.S. 

 " Descriptions of South American Micro-Lepidoptera," by 



E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., F.E.S. 



" Life-History of Caligo memnon," by F. L. Davis, M.D., 

 F.E.S. 



" Some Palaearctic Species of Cordulegaster," by Kenneth 

 J. Morton, F.E.S. 



" Experiments on some Carnivorous Insects," by C. F. M. 



SWYNNERTON, F.E.S. 



