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S. ocellatus bred out-of-doors, on September 14th, from larva 

 which pupated in June 1912. 



Malacodebm Larvae. — Mr. K. G. Blair exhibited larvae 

 of two allied species of Malacoderm from Borneo, brought to the 

 Natural History Museum by Mr. J. 0. Moulton. The species 

 to which these larvae belong are not yet known, although pro- 

 bably belonging to the family Lycidae. The larvae are found 

 amongst moist rotten wood, but the nature of their food is 

 uncertain. 



Mr. C. J. Gahan observed that from the mouth-parts it 

 was probable that these larvae belonged to the Family Lycidae. 

 Several attempts had been made to breed them but they had 

 never developed, and it was possible that the ? at any rate 

 never gets beyond this condition ; the ^ is quite unknown. 



Prof. PouLTON remarked that Mr. Shelford had once had a 

 larva which reached a soft stage apparently preliminary to 

 some change, but that it had fallen a victim to an unfortunate 

 accident. 



Nonagria dissoluta. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten exhibited 

 specimens of Nonagria dissoluta and var. arundineta from 

 East Kent, bred during August 1912, 75 per cent, from this 

 locality being dissoluta. 



Papers. 



The following papers were read : — 



" Notes sur quelques espfeces des Lucanides dans les collec- 

 tions du British Museum et de TUniversite de Oxford," par 

 M. Henri Boileau, F.E.S. 



" Synaposematic resemblance between Acraeine larvae," by 

 G. D. H. Carpenter, B.A., M.B., F.E.S. 



Prof. PouLTON, in giving an account of Dr. Carpenter's 

 paper, exhibited the specimens referred to by the author, and 

 drew attention to the fact that there were considerable differ- 

 ences between the females in the different families of Acraea 

 alcio2)e, Hew., bred on Damba Island. A large proportion of 

 the females in some of the famiHes exhibited a strong develop- 

 ment of fulvous pigment along the outer border of the white 

 bar crossing the hindwing, rendering them conspicuously 

 different from the females in which this feature was absent 



