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(tise) 
(5) Palmi, Monte Elia, 1,000 ft., very dark ; (6) Aspromonte, 
above Scylla, over 2,000 ft. very dark. From Sicily, (7) 
Mount Etna, over 3,000 ft., moderate size, paler ; (8) Monte 
Cicci (near Messina), 2,000 ft., large and dark; (9) Monte 
Scuderi, 1,000 ft., very large and rather pale; (10) Messina 
(Gravitelli), 500 to 800 ft., large and dark (var. procida) ; 
(11) Megara Hybloea, sea-level nearly, large and_ pale; 
(12) Syracuse, sea-level nearly (var. syracusana, Zell.). The 
last were taken near the River Anapo, where galathea was 
plentiful near a cornfield. Mr. Barrett observed that Zeller’s 
description of “ syracusana” is very simple; ‘‘larger ; 
abdomen, back ashen; belly white.” One underside was 
exhibited to show the latter peculiarity, and the undersides 
were described as being even more interesting than the upper. 
The exhibitor added that it is seldom wise to make deductions 
from limited information, but that there seemed reason to 
think that high altitude reduces the size of this butterfly, but 
that with regard to blackness on the other hand, specimens 
from near sea-level in Calabria were equally dark with those 
taken over 2,000 ft. up the mountain. 
A Gigantic Spiper.—Mr. A. E. Tonek exhibited a very 
fine Mygale from California, together with a newspaper cutting 
giving (from an eminently unscientific point of view) an 
amusing account of its capture on a child’s arm by its 
terrified but determined mother. 
AN ‘“‘ImiTation”” Larva.—Mr. J. R. te B. Tomi showed 
a specimen which he said was not strictly an entomological 
exhibit, but from its curious resemblance to a caterpillar 
might be of momentary interest to Fellows. It was in reality 
a species of West Indian oyster (Ostrea frons, L.) which 
attaches itself to twigs. 
Professor Pountron remarked that both this and the Cocci- 
nellid exhibited by Mr. Sennett were probably cases of 
accidental resemblance. 
Ruopesian Insects as Prey.—Professor E. B. Pouuron 
exhibited the following specimens sent to him by Mr. C. F. M. 
Swynnerton, both of which had been captured on the outskirts 
(3,800 ft.) of Chirinda Forest, Gazaland, 8.E. Rhodesia. 
1. The feniale form hippocoon of Papilio dardanus cenea, Stoll, 
