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• A. C. Clark the terms '' Metamorph-apatetic Resemblance" 

 and " Metamorjihic Apate " were now suggested as the 

 technical equivalents of " Transformational Deceptive Re- 

 semblance." Just as " Metamorphosis " had been long 

 used to express a well-known transformation of form and 

 structure becoming visible at a change of skin, so here the 

 same word was adopted to express a transformation with a 

 sj)ecial significance, also apparent at a change of skin. 



COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA L., AS THE PREY OP THE 



AsiLiD FLY Laphria flava L. — Prof. PouLTON exhibited a 

 female Laphria flava with its Coccinellid prey captured by 

 Dr. Karl Jordan in the Harz Mountains, between Goslar and 

 Hahnenklee (July, 1921), — one of many seen by him devouring 

 the same species, at the time particularly common and con- 

 spicuous. A male Laphria flava with Ichneumonid prey 

 — a male Meniscus impressor Gray {Lissonotus group of 

 Pimplinae) — captured by Dr. Jordan at the same time was 

 also exhibited. 



These constant attacks on a conspicuous Coccinellid were 

 an interesting addition to the evidence that Asilidae are 

 some of the principal enemies of specially protected insects. 



Kind help in the determinations had been given by Mr. 

 G. J. Arrow, Major Austen, Mr. J. E. Collin and Mr. R. E. 

 Turner. 



Recent observations on the " false head " of 

 Lycaenidae in relation to the attacks of enemies. — 

 Prof. Poulton called attention to Dr. V. G. L. Van Someren's 

 interesting observations recorded in Journ. E. Afr. and 

 Uganda Nat. Hist. Soc, No. 17, Mar. 1922, p. 18. The 

 aj^i^earance of a " false head " at the anal angle of the 

 hind-wing of Lycaenidae had been recognised not by " one 

 authority," as the author supposed, but by many, and 

 independently of each other. A list up to 1906 is recorded 

 in Proc. Ent. Soc. for that year (p. lii) ; and to this must be 

 added T. R. Bell in Ent. Mo. Mag., 1906, p. 128, and J. Sibree 

 in " Naturalist in Madagascar " (London, 1915, p. 254), 

 quoted in Proc. Ent. Soc, 1917, p. Ixv. And later still there 

 are the imj)ortant observations of Dr. Th. Mortensen in 

 Taboga Island, Panama (abstract and reference in Proc. 



proc. ent. soc. lond., v, 1922. d 



