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India and Ceylon. In the polyfes female, mimicking P. 

 aristolochiae, F., the sub-marginal spots were smaller, and 

 exhibited, like those of the non-mimetic female {cyrus, F.), a 

 far closer relationship to the condition of the non-mimetic 

 male than that shown by the romulus, Cram., female (mimick- 

 ing P. hector, L.). Wlien, however, one of the spots of the 

 romulus series was conspicuously smaller than the others, that 

 spot was to be found in area 3. The comparison was illus- 

 trated by males, male-like females, and the mimetic forms of 

 female of the subspecies polytes, from the eastern Asiatic 

 mainland and of the subspecies romulus, from the western 

 mainland and Ceylon. 



Living Meloe proscarabaeus. — Mr. Champion exhibited 

 two living examples of Meloe proscarabaeus found at Guildford 

 on March 14th last, an unusually early date. 



Insects from the Brunig Pass. — Mr. H. Main exhibited 

 a large number of photographic slides taken during a holiday 

 in Switzerland last summer, mostly illustrating insects found 

 on the Brunig Pass. These included nests of Vespa norvegica 

 and Polistes gallica, a number of instances of moths concealed 

 among their surroundings, and complete life-histories of Cicin- 

 dela campestris and Myrmeleon formicarius. Amongst the 

 latter was an illustration of the manner of " forcibly feeding " 

 the imago by holding the wings in a clip. 



The feeding of captive butterflies. — Mr. C. F. M. 

 Swynnerton exhibited a drawing of a similar method of 

 feeding butterflies in captivity, and read the following notes : — 



When I first attempted to breed from Papilio dardanus 

 females I found quite a difficulty in obtaining eggs. I tried 

 all possible food-plants — Teclea, Toddalia, orange, both wild 

 and cultivated, and Clausena, on each of which plants I had 

 seen unconfined individuals laying, also lemon and lime. 

 Fearing my boxes were too small I made a bottomless cage, 

 measuring nearly five feet in length and height and more than 

 half as broad and placed it simultaneously over clumps of 

 Zinnias and young plants, specially transplanted thither, of 

 Teclea, etc., or over Zinnia clumps growing up against orange 

 trees, branches of which were drawn into the cage. Yet 

 entries of the following kind still described my results : — 



