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Lasiocampid Nests. —Mr. G. Bethune-Baker brought for 
exhibition three nests of a species of Lasiocampid moth from 
Mount Elgon, Albert Nyanza, belonging to the same group as 
2'haumatopoea in’ocessionea. He had been consulted relative 
to the possibilities of using the silk of which the long pouch¬ 
like “nests” wei’e constructed. Mr. G. A. K. Marshall said 
that they belonged to a species of Anaphe. 
Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., read the following— 
Preliminary Note on Mr. A. D. Millar’s experimental 
BREEDING OF FORMS OF THE NyMPHALINE GENUS EUKALIA IN 
Natal. —By Boland Trimen, M.A., F.K.S. 
There are three forms of Eurcdia which inhabit the coast- 
land of Natal, vid. E. vmhlheryi, Wallengr., E. mivui, Trim., 
and E. decoptor, Trim. The first and second of these, without 
being numerous, are met with not uncommonly; the third, 
first brought to notice in 1869, and described by me in 1873 
from a single has hitherto remained very rare in the 
(Colony. Each of the three forms in both sexes unmistakably 
and very closely mimics a Danaine of the genus Amauris 
prevalent in the same district:—thus, E. loahlbergi mimics 
A. niavius, sub-sp. dominicanus, Trim. ; E. mima mimics 
A. alhimacidata, Butl., as well as A. echeria, Stoll. ; and E. 
deceptor mimics A. ochlea, Boisd. The intimate afiinity of the 
three Eurcdiae is apparent, although their wing colouring and 
marking present such Avide differences. To this I called atten¬ 
tion when describing (Trans. Ent. Soc., 1873. p. 107 and foot¬ 
note) E. deceptor, as well as to the fact that E. viiina 3 Rud 
E. wcddberyi $ had been taken paired.* Since then Mr. A. I). 
Millar, Mr. C. N. Barker, Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall, Mr. G. F. 
Leigh, and other entomological observers in Natal have brought 
to notice sever.al other_cases of the pairing of these tAvo forms, 
and also various details of habits, distribution, etc., Avhich sup¬ 
ported the vieAv of their species-identity. Recently Mr. Millar, 
having di.scovered the foodjilant—a stinging-nettle recognised 
by Mr. J. Medley Wood as a species of Fleurya —has been 
enabled to test matters by breeding from ova laid respectively 
by a wcddberyi, a mima, and two deceptor. These four 9 9 
Avere all taken toAvards the end of March 1909—the loahlbergi 
* See also “South Afr. Butt.,” I, pp. 282, 283 and 285 (1887). 
