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A female Paraseviia plantaginis, captured June 3 in Tubney 

 Wood near Oxford, together with 9 o* and 2 ? bred from her 

 eggs, was presented by Commander Walker. The eggs were 

 laid about June 4-8, and hatched about June 14. The larvae 

 were fed on lettuce, and the moths emerged Aug. 26-Oct. 14 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag., 1911, p. 260). 



Nine specimens of the Zygaenid moth Procris geryon, 

 Dovedale, Derbyshire (June, 19 1 1), were presented by the 

 captor, E. D. Bostock, Esq. 



Ten specimens of the Zygaenid Z . meliloti, Wood Fidley, 

 New Forest (July 6, 1911), were presented by the captor, the 

 Rev. G. E. C. Osborne. 



A nest of the Dartford Warbler {Melizophilus provincialis), 

 taken in a gorse-bush, at Blackheath, Guildford, in 1898, after 

 the flight of the young birds, was presented by Mrs. Alfred 

 Hewitt, who, as Miss Margery Moseley, had made the ob- 

 servation and preserved this evidence of the breeding of the 

 species in England. 



Additions to the Collections in 191 2. 



The following collections have not yet been incorporated, 

 although some of them have been labelled. It is hoped that 

 they will be acknowledged in the next year's Reports : — A 

 collection of butterflies from Trinidad by Guy A. K. Mar- 

 shall, Esq. ; of Insects of many Orders from New Guinea 

 by G. N. Carson, Esq. ; of Lepidoptera from Bwaidogo 

 Island at the South-East end of New Guinea by D. Jenncss, 

 Esq., B.A., Balliol College; the chief part of the material of 

 his paper (Part II, No. IX) in the Trans. Ent. Soc. 1912, by 

 Lieut.-Col. X. Manders, R.A.M.C, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



A very interesting collection of ants from the neighbour- 

 hood of Buluwayo (1911-12) was presented by the captor, 

 G. Arnold, Esq., M.Sc, A.R.C.S., F.E.S., curator of the 

 Rhodesian Museum, Buluwayo. Many of the species are 

 new to science, having been only recently described by 

 Prof. A. Forcl. The donor has also presented a few Austra- 

 lian and Californian ants and a few other South African 



