(Tice: -') 
phous, and explained that Mr. Gahan had dissected it and 
found the genitalia to be entirely 9. 
Scarce Coxteoprera.—Mr. H. C. Doiuman exhibited the 
following species of Coleoptera :—Philonthus intermedius, 
Bois. ; ab. donisthorpei, Dollman, described in the Ent. Rec., 
December 1910; Stenus formicetorwm, Mann., introduced as 
British in the Ent. Rec., April 1911; Bembidium quadrv- 
pustulatum, Dej., an example from Ditchling, Sussex, August 
17, 1911; Hypophloeus linearis, F., retaken at Oxshott, in July 
of this year; a species hitherto taken in Great Britain only 
in Surrey, at Oxshott and Woking; Mycetoporus forticornis, 
Fauv. (one specimen from the New Forest), with J. clavicornis, 
Steph., for comparison ; Philonthus corruscus, Gr., taken from 
a dead rabbit at Ditchling ; Stenws morio, Gr., from Ditchling, 
taken in October 1910. 
BRED SERIES OF ACRAEA ORESTIA AND A. HUMILIS.—Mr. 
H. Exrrineuam exhibited a bred series of Acraea orestia, 
Hew., containing the typical form, and also the A. humitis 
of Miss E. M. Sharpe, thus demonstrating the truth of the 
conclusion at which he had previously arrived as to the 
specific identity of these two forms. The exhibit was 
accompanied by an extract from a letter received by Professor 
Poulton from Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter, who had bred the series 
at Damba Island, Victoria Nyanza, and who had generously 
presented the specimens to the Hope Department at Oxford. 
Dr. Carpenter’s note was as follows: ‘‘ Reared, September 
11 [1911], larvae found very young, feeding all together on 
one leaf, cheek by jowl. I took them for alctope larvae, 
and was much surprised by the ultimate result. Pupae and 
larvae were both exactly like alciope so far as I could tell, 
but I had no alciope larvae to compare with them at the 
time, as no idea of a different species was suggested.” 
Mr. ExrrtncHam also exhibited a coloured drawing of the 
larva of alciope in order to give an idea of the appearance of 
the larvae from which oresiia had been bred. He also showed 
three ¢ black and yellow Acraeas, one of which was the 
A, circeis of Drury from Sierra Leone. The other two while 
differing in appearance from A. circeis were themselves exactly 
alike, but for the fact that the two tarsal claws of the second 
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