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employed in tins rivalry had been given by Dr. Skinner in the 

 Ent. News, Philadelphia, 1900, p. 533. Dr. H. H. Behr, who 

 had described the male more than forty years ago, was of 

 opinion that the two species of Neophasia were congeneric 

 with the curious Mexican butterfly Eucheira socialis, whose 

 larvae made an elaborate common habitation, in which they 

 underwent pupation. Dr. Dixey, however, could not avoid 

 the suspicion that Behr had been misled into attributing a 

 larval nest which was really that of Eucheira to N. terlooii, 

 and there appeared to be no other reason for supposing 

 the two forms to be closely related. He remembered that 

 Dr. W. J. Holland, of Pittsburg, U.S.A., who was present at 

 the meeting of the Entomological Society to which he had 

 referred, agreed in this opinion. 



Mr. Collin congratulated Prof. Poulton on having induced 

 these entomologists to study the habits of the African Di- 

 ptera; he commented on those exhibited, and expressed a 

 doubt whether the three so-called species of Zonochroa were 

 really separate. 



Mr. Blair observed that the Hippohcsca of the New Forest 

 makes for the soft parts of the skin of horses. In answer 

 to an inquiry whether the driver ants give out any scent, Mr. 

 G. A. K. Marshall replied that they do so. 



Mr. DoNiSTHORPE also commented on the ants. 



Papers. 



The following papers were read : — 



" On the egg-laying of Trichiosoma {Tenth) edinidae)," by 

 T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



" A remarkable now Genus and Species of Odonata of the 

 Legion Podagriov, Sel., from N. Queensland," by Kenneth J. 

 Morton, F.E.S. 



" Lepidoptera-Heterocera from S.E. Brazil," by E. Duktn- 



FIELD-JONES, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



" The Myrmecophilous Aphides of Britain," by Prof. F. V. 

 Theobald, M.A., F.E.S. 



