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A RKMARKABLE CoLiAD. — JMr. E. B. AsHBY exhibited on 

 behalf of Mr. Dickinson a few butterflies from Hinterzarteii 

 in the Black Forest and from Poutresina. Amongst them 

 was a $ Colias palaeno, var. europomene, of the large form 

 of the lower levels, and another which was regarded by the 

 exhibitor as an aberration. 



The Rev. G. Wheeler expressed the opinion that the 

 latter was a hybrid between C. palaeno and C. hyale. It was 

 afterwards pointed out by Mr. H. J. Turner that the 

 antennae were different, one resembling those of 0. palxieno 

 the other those of C. hyale. 



Parasite imprisoned in the Cocoon of its Host. — • 

 Mr. Prideaux brought for exhibition the cocoon described 

 in the following note, with its contents : — • 



In 1913, a larva of Bomhyx quercus, apparently healthy, 

 spun its cocoon, but no emergence took place that summer 

 or next. On cutting open the co.coon, the dead, shrivelled 

 larva was found inside, together with the empty puparium 

 of a dipterous parasite, which, with the wings unexpanded, 

 lay beside it, imprisoned within the cocoon of its host. He 

 inquired whether the case was an lumsual one, since in his 

 experience the parasites as a rule leave the body of this larva 

 before the very tough cocoon is spun. 



Butterflies from Central Spain. — Mr. 8imes exhibited 

 a series of Agriades thersites, Pleheius zephynis, var. hesperica, 

 and Melitaea desfontainii from Albarracin taken in the end 

 of May and the beginning of June this year. The $ $ of 

 A. thersites were strongly marked with blue, and amongst 

 the S S was a specimen the underside of which had only 

 the discoidal and marginal spots. 



Papers. 



The following papers were read : — 



" A Revision of the Mexican and Central American Tele- 

 phorinae (Fam. Telephoridae) with Descriptions of New 

 Species, '\by George Charles Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



" Descriptions of two New Genera and New Species of 

 Myniaridae from Tasmania.'' by Chas. 0. Waterhouse, 

 I.S.O., F.E.S. 



