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case the annoyance was such as to result in a stampede of the 

 horses. 



Mr. Neave related a case in his experience in which many 

 moths were found sucking the moisture (not the blood) from 

 a wounded buck in Africa. 



Pentatomid bugs devouring the Lycaenid butterfly 

 A. CORIDON. — Prof. PouLTON exhibited the two examples of a 

 Pentatomid bug, Zicrona coerulea, L., and the butterfly referred 

 to in the following letter from Dr. E. A. Cockayne, dated July 

 26, 1915 :— 



'■ I enclose you a freshly emerged male Agriades coridon, P., 

 taken at Koyston, Herts., July 25, 1915. The two brilliant 

 green bugs were sucking it, one attacking the thorax, the other 

 the abdomen. About forty yards away I found another dead 

 male coridon. Like the first it must have just dried its wings 

 before meeting its death. I could find no enemy in this case. 

 Both were on very short dry turf, on the down." 



Prof. Poulton said that it was doubtful whether the bugs 

 had killed the butterfly. He had once noticed near St. Helens, 

 Isle of Wight, a dead male of Polyommatu? icarus, Eott., 

 lying on the ground, and had found a spider in the flower of a 

 buttercup just over the butterfly. In this case the dead body 

 might have been attacked by Hemiptera. Mr. A. H. Hamm 

 had seen and recorded in the photograph exhibited to the 

 meeting the attack of a Capsid bug, Capsus laniarius, L., upon 

 Pieris rapae, L., after it had been caught and killed by a web- 

 building spider in his garden at Oxford. 



In answer to a question by Mr. P. A. Buxton as to whether 

 the bug was known to be a blood-sucker, Dr. G. A. K. 

 Marshall observed that Pentatomid bugs frequently attacked 

 Pierid larvae, and Mr. E. E. Green gave similar instances. 



Pyrrhopygid Ova and Imagines. — Mr. W. J. Kaye ex- 

 hibited ova of Pyrrhopyge charybdis, a skipper belonging to 

 the wholly Neotropical sub-family Pyrrhopyginae. The eggs 

 for the size of the butterfly were enormous, and it was obvious 

 that quite a comparatively small number could be laid by a 

 single ?. The eggs were very similar to some Hesperiine species, 

 being ribbed conspicuously longitudinally. The base of the 

 egg consisted of a flat plate of a dark colour, the remainder of 



