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connected by a bridge in the other. Both series showed a 

 gradation from the complete bridge to its entire absence. 

 One series consisted of four males and four females reared 

 from eggs seen to be laid at 5 p.m. December 7, 19 10, in an open 

 space by a native village H miles E. of Oni. The eggs hatched 

 December 12, and four of the exhibited specimens pupated 

 December 25, and emerged January 4, 1911 ; the other four on 

 December 26 and January 5 respectively. The whole cycle 

 fell well within the dry season, from about November 15, 

 1910, to March 15, 1911. The other series consisted of three 

 males and one female bred from a company of larvae found 

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August 14, 1911, in Oni clearing. One imago emerged 

 August 30, three on August 31, and the cycle evidently fell 

 well within the wet season, from about March 15 to December 

 8, 1911. 



The Breeding of Eurytela hiarbas, Drury : a Correc- 

 tion. — Prof. Poulton said that he had sent a proof of the 

 Proceedings for 1912, pp. xviii, xix, to Mr. W. A. Lamborn, 

 who had pointed out that E. hiarbas had been bred by him 

 from scattered larvae and not, as stated, from a known female 

 parent. Prof. Poulton wished to correct the mistake he had 

 inadvertently made. 



The Irritating Hairs of the Moth Anaphe infracta, 

 "Walsingham. — Prof. Poulton exhibited a specimen of the 

 Eupterotid. or, as Aurivillius considers, the Notodontid moth 

 Anaphe infracta, concerning which Mr. W. A. Lamborn had 

 written from Oni Camp, April 22, 1912 : — 



" I cannot say when the common cocoon was formed other 

 than it was in July, 1911. The moths undoubtedly possess 

 urticating hairs. The female Mona was allowed to steal one. 

 She smelt it, rubbed off the hairs and scales, then dropped it 

 and in a few minutes was rubbing all four feet on the ground. 

 I made some sympathising remarks with the result that she 

 suddenly sprang on to my bare neck, and I have been troubled 

 with skin irritation all the evening. I found too that an 

 urticating line on my arm followed exactly where I allowed a 

 moth to crawl up a few days ago. It came and settled there 

 when I was reading." 



