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EXTRACTS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 
(APRIL 27TH, 1904). 
February 3rd, 1904. 
The PresipeNT exhibited a male and female of Papilio 
dardanus, captured in coitu by Mr. Geo. F. Leigh, at 
Durban in 1902, and examples of the offspring reared from 
the eggs laid by the female. ‘he latter was of the cenea 
form, as were the great majority of the female offspring ; 
three, however, were of the black and white hippocoon form. 
More recently, in 1903, Mr. Leigh had captured a female of 
the rare trophonius form, and had bred from the seven eggs 
laid by it five butterflies, of which the two females were both 
of the commonest cenea form. The female trophonius was also 
exhibited together with the five offspring. 
March 2nd, 1904. 
The Presipent exhibited a specimen of Glenea pulchella 
(Thoms.), one of three individuals of the species taken on 
June 25th of last year, near “ Barwood,” in the Ouchterlong 
Valley, in the Nilgiris, by Mr. Leslie Andrewes. In a letter 
dated June 26th, 1903, not written with a view to publication, 
Mr. Andrewes described the circumstances of their capture: 
““The most striking [of the beetles] is a parti-coloured 
Longicorn about 1} inches long, which clearly mimics a large 
TIchneumon fly, which I have yet to discover. I have three 
of the beetles, The first two I was just going to grab as 
they settled, and each time I said to Downing, ‘... Im 
glad I didn’t catch that beastly fly: he looks like a stinger,’ 
when something made me look again, and I saw what it was. 
It is curious my making the same mistake twice. It is a 
most elegant case of mimicry ; yet when the beetle is in the 
