al 
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suggests it strongly. The arguments for the dominance of 
lycia appear to be the brood from Company 7 (but out of a total 
of sixteen it is not very unusual to get such departures 
from the expected 1 : 1 ratio), and the fact that lycia is the 
common form in the locality. This, however, is not of great 
weight.” 
Mr. Doncaster has suggested, and Prof. Poulton has for- 
warded to Mr. Lamborn the lines of future experiments, which 
it is hoped will throw more light on the Mendelian relation- 
ships, and, above all, on the unisexual broods of this 
interesting Acraea. 
THE Proor BY BREEDING THAT ACRAEA AURIVILLII, STAUD., 
Is THE FEMALE oF A. ALCIOPE, HrEw.—Prof. Poutron ex- 
hibited a series of eight A. alciope and five A. aurivillii bred 
in the present year by Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter from thirteen 
small larvae found on a single leaf of the food-plant on 
Damba Island, in the Victoria Nyanza to the east of Entebbe. 
The result entirely confirmed the conclusions of Mr. Eltring- 
ham and Dr. Jordan, as published in the Proceedings for 
November 17, 1909 (pp. Ixvii-lxix). 
Deprepations BY Minute Ants.—-The Rev. G. WHEELER 
exhibited some living %% of a small ant, identified by 
Mr. DontstHorPe as Monomorium pharaonis, imported from 
Madeira, and now settled in England, together with several 
butterflies whose bodies and heads had been devoured by 
them while in the setting box. Mr. WHEELER observed that 
these insects had all been killed in the cyanide bottle, whilst 
others in the same setting box which had been injected with 
oxalic acid were left untouched. Mr. R. W. Liroyp remarked 
that there were two other small species of foreign ants which 
had also domiciled themselves in houses in England. Several 
Fellows joined in the discussion, Mr. C. J. Gawan observing 
that these ants were reported to be very destructive to the 
common bug, and were rather to be encouraged, whilst Com- 
mander WaLker said that he had found them very destructive 
to his entomological specimens on board ship, but that on the 
only oceasion when he had known of their occurrence in 
company with bed-bugs, the two had lived together in perfect 
amity. The Rey. G. WuEELER replied that when they infest 
