( Ixxvi ) 



an orange subapical patch on the fore-wing upper surface 

 of ridleyanus from Kakindu and had suggested that the 

 marking was related to the pattern of the eastern Acraea 

 zetes, L., viz. the form acara, Hew. The comparison of Dr. 

 Carpenter's 19 male examples with those from further west had 

 confirmed this suggestion (p. Ixvii, n.). Nineteen additional 

 males captured between February 23 and March 10, and 

 received in Dr. Carpenter's second consignment, were now 

 exhibited, providing still further confirmation. The orange 

 marking was conspicuous in 3 examples, small in 4, represented 

 by a slight dusting of orange scales in 6, and absent from 6. 



2. A new Longicorn mimic of the Lycidae. — Dr. Carpenter 

 had noted concerning the longicorn beetle (Lamiidae), Syn- 

 nupserha homeyeri, Har., var., that it was an " excellent 

 lycoid on wing." The specimen, captured in thick forest, 

 February 13, 1915, had been kindly named by Mr. C. J. 

 Gahan. 



3. A Pyrrhocorid hug mimicking a Mutillid. — Dr. Carpenter 

 had written the following note with reference to the Pyrrho- 

 corid Myrmoplasta potteri, Martin : " Captured, Kakindu 

 plain, March 7, 1915, as a Mutillid. General appearance 

 and movements very like. Abdomen when alive plump and 

 rounded, and of brighter red. The insect quite took me 

 in." 



A COMMON SYNAPOSEMATIC ASSOCIATION OF MALE AFRICAN 

 PlERINAE PROBABLY SPECIALLY RELATED TO THE HABIT OF 



DRINKING AT DAMP MUD. — Dr. Carpenter had spoken (Pro- 

 ceedings, 1915, p. Ixvi) of the immense numbers of Pierines 

 assembling to drink at damp mud, of the evidence that they 

 were but little attacked by wagtails, and of the mimicry 

 of one of the commonest Pierine underside patterns by a 

 Lycaenid, Phylaria cyara, Hew., which also came to drink at 

 the same place. 



The Pierines which thus assembled were probably always 

 males, Mr. C. A. Wiggins had captured 153 specimens over 

 a pool at the Rippon Falls, Jinja, February 2, 1906, and 

 all were males (Proc. Ent. Soc, 1906, p. 1). The simple 

 and characteristic underside pattern mimicked by Phylaria 

 cyara was best represented in these Kakindu collections by the 



