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Jamaica and Santo Domingo and is probably the largest of the 

 new world species. It was formerly regarded as a great rarity but 

 is now to be found in most collections as its habits are better 

 known and collectors have learned how to take it. It is a forest 

 insect and a very high flyer, its headquarters being the Blue Moun- 

 tains in Jamaica. 



P. (jlaucm, L., is an interesting insect, being dichromatic in the 

 female in the southern part of its range, where it is double-brooded. 

 I believe American collectors generally apply the name of turniis 

 to the yellow form and ijlaacus to the blackish -brown female form. 

 The large "f((/-«»s" specimen is of the southern summer form 

 from Alabama and so is the "(/laucus" female. The spring form is, 

 I believe, smaller and more like the northern form which I show 

 under the subspecific name of canadensis, R. and J,, and which is 

 found in British North America. 



P. iiiarchandi, Bdv. This rather uncommon species I have re- 

 ceived both from British Honduras and Guatemala. 



P. salrini, Bates. I was glad to receive this rare species from 

 Punta Gorda in British Honduras in March last. 



P. cacicns var. inca, R. and J. This also is a rarity and comes 

 from Peru. 



P. za(jiens, P. backus var, chri/so)iielas, and P. ascolins, belong to a 

 most interesting mimetic group of Papilios which resemble certain 

 danaines of the genus Tithorea and also have a mimetic resem- 

 blance to some heliconine species. 



The Rev. A. T. Stiff, M.A., exhibited:— 



(1) A series of P'.pincphele tithonus from Tavistock, showing a 

 considerable range of colour variation, and including one male with 

 cream ground-colour, two females with golden-yellow ground-colour, 

 two very dark males, one male with the usaally fuscous border of 

 a pale mouse-grey, and many showing extra spots. 



(2) A series of P.matarga atoinaria from the Isle of Man, the 

 New Forest, Tavistock, Wye and Folkestone, and including fine 

 yellow forms of the male, several yellowish females, two heavily 

 bordered males, two heavily barred females, and one female with 

 male coloration and marking. 



Mr. W. J. Ashdown exhibited British and Swiss Aphantopus 

 hijperantHs including ab. arete and ab. coica and several specimens 

 with asymmetrical spotting on the undersides of the hindwings. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited a striking and almost perfect 

 aberration of Aiyynnis niobe, captured on August 2nd of this year, 



