Butterflies from the Nile. — Mr. H. Mace exhibited a 

 number of species of butterflies from the neighbourhood of 

 Khartoum in illustration of his paper in the Transactions. 



A new Variety of Diaphora mendica.— Mr. Robert 

 Adkin exhibited specimens of DiapJiora mendica from Co. 

 Tyrone, Ireland, for which he proposed the varietal name 

 venosa. This local race most nearly approaches that known as 

 rustica (of which a series of Co. Cork specimens was exhibited 



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for comparison) of all the known forms of the species, "but 

 differs from it in the whitish-grey colour of the wings in both 

 sexes and the darker grey of the veins, which in many of the 

 specimens is very distinct. In the darker males (for as in 

 var. rustica they vary in depth of colour) the tone is of a grey- 

 brown as compared with the yellowish-brown of the latter form. 

 Insects from Piedmont. — Mr. E. B. Ashby brought for 

 exhibition numerous insects of various Orders taken in 

 Piedmont, Italy, from July 25 to August 16, 1921. 



