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Quite recently (Bull. Soc. Lepid. de Cien^ve, Vol. ii, fasc. 1.^ 
June 1910) Dr. J. L. Keverdin has described, under the name 
constanti, a section of the meridiotudis race on the strength 
of the under-side of the d is, so far as can be seen in 
the specimens under observation, the sole difference between 
rezniceki and constanti. 
As regards the specimens exhibited (captured in the spi-ing) 
both forms appear to occur on the same ground in the districts 
betAveen Hyeres and St. Raphael, with a large proportion of 
dark-coloured under-side examples. Whether anywhere in the 
area covered hj meridionalis the form rezniceki {$$ with pale 
under-side) and the form constanti (d d 'with dark undei'-side) 
become quite locally racial has not yet been determined. It 
would be interesting for solving this problem to state, when 
dealing with the specimens from any particular place, on what 
geological formation the examples ax’e captured. 
It is peculiar that M. Charles Oberthiir, in his excellent ork 
(Lep. Comp., fasc. iv., p. 281), distributed so recently as early 
August last, notes a connection between what may be called a 
hypothetical var. apennina from Florence and rezniceki, Bartel^ 
but not between rezniceki and constanti, really, with very slight 
differences, the same race; hypothetical apennina because it 
is clear that the apennina spoken of by M. Oberthiir are the 
usual summer form taken in the Apennines, and have little, 
if anything, in common with the specimens in the British 
Museum Collection, named apennina by Zeller. 
Protective attitude of a Mantis from Borneo.— Mr. G. 
Meade-Waldo read the following note received by him from 
Mr. J. C. Moulton, and exhibited an example of Ilymenopus 
h icornis :— 
“ This curious Mantis was given to me on June 2nd, 1910, 
by Mr. E. Parnell, of the Sarawak Government Civil Service, 
who found it in his garden. I kept it alive for twenty-three 
days, and was thus able to make some observations on its 
customary attitudes. 
“ Generally it was to be seen in the usual ‘ praying ’ atti- 
tude, i.e. with head, thorax and fore-legs up-raised. But one 
day, on disturbing it, I noticed an improvement on this 
position, which gave it the most remarkable resemblance to 
