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Mr. II. St. J. DoNiSTHORPE also brought for exhibition 

 Otiorrhynchus sulmtus, Polydriosus sericeus, and Omias bohe- 

 manni with these appendages still attached. The Otiorrhynchus 

 was dug up in its pupal cell at Oakham in 1895. 



Melit^as from South Switzerland. — The Eev. G. 

 Wheeler showed a case containing specimens of Melitajid 

 butterflies taken by him at Keazzino in Tessin, near Bellin- 

 zona, which he had identified with Assmann's Melitxco mtrelia, 

 var. britomartis, they being absolutely identical with the 

 specimens so labelled in the Swiss national collections at 

 Berne. The close aflinity with M. dictynna on the under-side 

 makes separation superficially difficult, and until all forms are 

 reared from the ovum it would be impossible to determine 

 whether britomartis constitutes a separate species or not. Mr. 

 J. W. TuTT said that the only forms of the species which he 

 had seen resembling those exhibited had been taken by Dr. 

 Chapman at Campiglio, in the Southern Tyrol, where the 

 conditions of soil and climate would be more or less similar to 

 those at Eeazzino. Despite the fact that Mr. Wheeler had 

 found M. dictynna flying on the same spot between the times 

 of the two broods exhibited, he was of opinion that the 

 specimens were a form of dictynna. 



Papers. 



The following papers were communicated : — 



"Descriptions of New Species of Lepidoptera-Heterocera' 

 from South-East Brazil," by H. Dukinfield Jones, F.E.S. 



'' Erebia lefebvrei and Lycscna pyrenaica'' by Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S. 



" A Contribution to the Classification of the Coleopterous 

 Family Dynastidiv," by Gilbert J. Arrow, F.E.S. 



" Hymenoptera-Aculeata Collected in Algeria by the Rev. 

 A. E. Eaton, M.A., F.Z.S., and the Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A., 

 F.E.S. Part III, Anthophila,'' by Edward Saunders, F.E.S. 



