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Carpenter and Mr. T. A. Barns, tlie black spot at the anal 

 angle of the fore-wing being concave towards the base of the 

 wing; the blue spots distinct on the hind- wing exce^jt in 

 one much- worn example; the inner border of the red mar- 

 ginal band of the hind-wing scalloped. The left fore-wing 

 was pale in one of the seven specimens taken on Sejjtember 

 8, an appearance well known in phlaeas pJilaeas L., of the 

 Northern Belt, and, whether due to inherent variation or 

 to a response to external conditions, emphasising the close 

 affinity between these two geographical races. 



Delayed development in an inbred larva of Abraxas 

 GROSSULARIATA, — Dr. Eltringham Communicated for Prof. 

 Poulton the information that the larva exhibited on October 

 18, 1922, was alive on November 18, but dead a week later. 

 Prof. Poulton wished to correct an unfortunate error in his 

 previous account. This caterj^illar did not belong to the 

 Isle of Wight stock, but was descended, inbred, from a wild 

 pair taken in coitu at Oxford in 1920 by Mr. A. H. Hamm. 



E. African Lycaenidae showing the attacks of lizards. 

 - — Dr. Eltringham showed the specimens figured by Dr. 

 V. G. L. van Someren in his paper in Journ. E. Afr. and Uganda 

 Nat. Hist. Soc, No. 17, Mar. 1922, p. 18, and referred to by 

 Prof. Poulton in Proc. Ent. Soc, 1922, pp. xlix-li, and said that 

 the material exhibited can be studied by naturalists in the 

 Hope Department, Oxford University Museum. 



Dr. van Someren made some remarks on the significance 

 of the above specimens, captured by him. 



Butterflies from Venezuela. — Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited 

 a large number of specimens representing the members of the 

 principal Miillerian (Ithomiine, Heliconine, Nymphaline) group 

 from the San Esteban Valley near Puerto Cabello, N.W. 

 Venezuela. The whole of the specimens had been taken by 

 the exhibitor between December 19 and 27, 1920. " The path 

 along which they were found flying or settled runs alongside a 

 broad rocky stream. The San Esteban Valley varies greatly 

 in width, but on either side the slopes rise to about 2000 ft. 

 They are wooded to their summits, but there is some cultiva- 

 tion with clearances near to the village of San Esteban, but as 

 one goes further up the valley cultivation disappears. Practi- 



