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i Exhibitions, §c. 
The Rev. Douglas C. Timins exhibited a specimen of Charaxes Jasius bred (from 
a Continental pupa) at Winchelsea. Also, three abnormal specimens of Argynnis 
Lathonia, from the neighbourhood of Boulogne; one had the outer margin of the 
anterior wings strongly incurved, another had the right fore-wing of but half its proper 
size, and the third was remarkable fiom the suffusion of the black markings of the 
wings. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. J, Caldwell, of Mauritius, dated Port Louis, 
November 3, 1867, respecting the occurrence of Papilio Phorbanta in Madagascar. 
Referring to Trans. Ent. Soc., third series, Vol. v. p. 330, Mr. Caldwell wrote as 
follows :— 
“ Mr. Trimen considers it probable that, in the collection examined by Mr. Bates, 
I may have mixed up the Malagasy insects with the Mauritian. This did take place 
after I had packed those for England; but I may almost venture to state positively 
that those I sent home were all taken from the original Malagasy collection before 
any mixture was possible.” 
Mr. F. Smith exhibited two specimens of a Polistes captured at Penzance by a lady 
residing in that town; one specimen was caught in the summer of 1866 on the window- 
sill of a house, and three more were taken at the end of July or beginning of August, 
1867, in the very same situation in the window of the same house. The insect did not 
agree exactly with any described species of Polistes, but appeared to be intermediate 
between the North-American P. biguttatus and the Brazilian P. versicolor. The 
captor suggested that they had probably been introduced in wood from a dock-yard 
situate about a hundred.yards from her house; but Mr. Smith could scarcely believe 
that they were imported: the species of Polistes were not wood-boring wasps, but 
paper-makers, and their slight nests were attached to the outside of a tree, post, wall, 
&c.; untrimmed wood was not imported from America. (See the ‘ Entomologist’s 
Annual’ for 1868, pp. 87, 96). 
Mr. Bates also had difficulty in believing that an insect with the habits of Polistes 
could have been imported ; the nests were mere strings of cells hanging by a peduncle 
from the rafter of a house, a shrub, the trunk or branch of a tree; they were of loose 
construction, incapable of withstanding exposure. Such a nest could hardly be 
transported in safety, either with timber on board ship or washed across by the gulf- 
stream. Such was the rapidity of lifein Brazil, and so quick the succession of broods, 
that the eggs would not remain unhatched during the voyage, and if hatched the 
young larve must perish. Nor did he think it likely that perfect wasps would be 
brought over alive; at any rate the specimens would be worn, and very different from 
those exhibited. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan exhibited a Trichopterous insect new to Britain, Neuronia 
clathrata of Kolenati, captured at Bishop's Wood, Staffordshire, by Mr. Chappell, of 
Manchester. 
The Secretary exhibited a small box of South-American Coleoptera, sent to the 
Society by Mr. F. Schickendantz, of Pilciao, who found them on the flowers of a new 
species of Hydnora. 
