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August 14, 1911, in Oni clearing. One imago emerged 

 August 30, thi'ee on August 31, and the cycle evidently fell 

 well within the wet season, from about March 15 to December 

 8, 1911. 



The Breeding of Eurytela hiarbas, Drury : a Correc- 

 tion. — Prof. PouLTON said that he had sent a proof of the 

 Proceedings for 1912, pp. xviii, xix, to Mr. W. A. Lamborn, 

 who had pointed out that i;'. hiarbas had been bred by him 

 from scattered larvae and not, as stated, from a known female 

 parent. Prof. Poulton wished to correct the mistake he had 

 inadvertently made. 



The Irritating Hairs of the Moth Anaphe infracta, 

 Walsingham. — Prof. Poulton exhibited a specimen of the 

 Eupterotid, or, as Aurivillius considers, the Notodontid moth 

 Anaphe infracta, concerning which Mr. W. A. Lamborn had 

 written from Oni Camp, April 22, 1912 : — 



" I cannot say when the common cocoon was formed other 

 than it was in July, 1911. The moths undoubtedly possess 

 urticating hairs. The female Mona was allowed to steal one. 

 She smelt it, rubbed off the hairs and scales, then dropped it 

 and in a few minutes Avas rubbing all four feet on the ground. 

 I made some sympathising remarks with the result that she 

 suddenly sprang on to my bare neck, and I have been troubled 

 with skin irritation all the evening. I found too that an 

 urticating line on my arm followed exactly where I allowed a 

 moth to crawl up a few days ago. It came and settled there 

 when I was reading." 



Prof. Poulton said that Mr. A. H. Hamm had found hairs 

 from the anal tuft of the exhibited specimen produced irrita- 

 tion on his hand and face. Mr. Eltringham had found that 

 the hairs of the female but not of the male tuft were covered 

 with minute excessively fine spicule-like teeth. 



Mr. H. Eltringham contributed the following notes on this 

 subject : — 



In the first volume of " Lepidoptera," in "Allen's Natviralist's 

 Library," there is a translation by Kirby of a paper by Piepers 

 which originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Dutch 

 Entomological Society. Kirby there states that his translation 

 appeared in the Entomologist for November 1875, though I 



