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seem to be quite unique, and may belong to a totally different 
insect.” 
Dr. K. Jorpan remarked that it was quite surprising that 
Prof. Poulton’s correspondents in Uganda got so many speci- 
mens of Pseudacraea while that genus is generally scantily 
represented by individuals in West African collections. He 
further observed that among the specimens exhibited were 
some intermediates, which supported his contention that 
obscura, terra and others are only forms of one species. 
BraZILIAN Syntomips.—Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a drawer 
full of Syntomidae that had been collected by himself in 
8. Brazil in the early part of 1910. Allusion was made to 
the richness in some localities, numerically as well as in 
species, of this family which is very specially developed in 
S. America. It was pointed out that there were certain 
types of coloration which recurred in widely different and 
not closely related species. Instance was made of Mesolasia 
paula and Dinia aeagrus, Which although found in the same 
district did not fly together, and moreover had a very 
different flight one from the other. Similarly Macrocneme 
leucostigma was like Antichloris eriphia, yet there was no 
confusing the two in the field. A more remarkable case 
was Callopepla inachia 9, which was extremely like an 
Oenochromine moth, Scea flammea. These insects had, how- 
ever, very different habits. The Syntomid flew and settled 
on a creeper in the early morning in the full sun, while the 
Oenochromid flew slowly in very shady woods. The former 
was rapid in its movements and the latter was very slow. 
It was hard to believe that this was not a case of mimicry, 
for a bird could, of course, fly in the open as well as in the 
forest and see the two insects in pretty quick succession. 
When settled the two insects were very alike, although in 
flight they were so different. Such closeness of resemblance 
when the two insects did not occur together was noteworthy 
and points to either a great difference in edibility or in the 
numerical ratio of the one to the other. At the Alto da 
Serra two species of Huagra, EL. azurea and FE. splendida were 
always together. It was curious that H. splendida should not 
belong to the genus Agyrta, as in Guiana two exactly similar 
