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rufiiinearia, collected in Nyassaland by S. A. Neave, Esq., 

 M.A., B.Sc, Magdalen College, were presented by the Ento- 

 mological Research Committee of the Colonial Office. 



Forty-three butterflies from the Wassaw District of the 

 Gold Coast were presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



Of great interest is an example of the female form inaria of 

 Hypolimnas misippus, captured at sea (Jan. 19, 1910) 30 miles 

 from land and 50 north of Mombasa, and presented by 

 S. A. Neave, Esq. Thus further evidence of the wandering 

 habits of this butterfly is added to that already in the 

 Department. 



A deeply interesting family of 11 butterflies bred from a 

 female Hypolimnas {Euralia) mima was presented, together 

 with 11 pupa-cases, by A. D. Millar, Esq., of Durban. The 

 female parent, captured at Mount Edgcumbe, near Durban, 

 laid eggs Nov. 21, 1909 : the offspring completed their life- 

 history in a month or under, all emerging from the pupa 

 Dec. 19-22. Eight of them, 5 male and 3 female, are mima 

 like the parent, mimicking Aviauris echeria and albimacnlata . 

 The remaining 3 are male examples of the butterfly previously 

 known as Euralia ivaldbcrgi, a mimic of Amauris niavius 

 dominicanus. Indirect evidence that mima and wahlbergi 

 may be the dimorphic forms of a single species was brought 

 forward by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall in 1902 (Trans. Ent. Soc, 

 Lond., pp. 491-2). The paper is reprinted in Vol. Ill of 

 Hope Reports, and it is of great interest that a part of the 

 conclusive direct evidence obtained 7 years later should have 

 found a place in the Department. Mr. Millar is to be warmly 

 congratulated on his success in solving a most interesting 

 problem. A full account of this and his other successful 

 results with Euralias has been published in Trans. Ent. Soc, 

 Lond., 19 10, p. 500, by Roland Trimen, Esq., Hon. M.A., 

 F.R.S. 



In the 1902 memoir referred to above the Professor wrote 

 on p. 492: "If Mr. Marshall's conclusion be established, it 

 follows that the corresponding and closely-allied mimetic 

 West African forms Euralia autJicdou and E. dubia, connected 

 like wahlbergi and mima by intermediate varieties, are similarly 



