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EXTRACTS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 
(Sept. 30TH, 1904). 
May 4th. 
Mr. G. H. Verratn exhibited three specimens from the 
Hope Collection at Oxford of Meottamus cothurnatus, Meig., 
an Asilid not previously recorded as British. They were 
taken near Oxford by Mr. W. Holland. 
The Prestpent exhibited a Longicorn beetle captured near 
Malvern, Natal, by Mr. C. N. Barker, together with a 
large Bracon from the same locality. The following extract 
from one of Mr. Barker’s letters indicates the close superficial 
resemblance which exists during movement between two 
insects which as cabinet specimens appear to bear no marked 
likeness to each other. “ The large yellow and black ichneumon, 
when on the wing, bears an extraordinary likeness to the 
Longicorn .Vitocris nigricornis, though no one would suspect 
a similarity in the cabinet. It is perhaps similarity of flight 
coupled with coloration that produces the effect, which has 
more than once deceived me.” 
The PresipEeNnT said that his friend Professor E. A. Minchin 
of University College, London, had communicated the follow- 
ing observation of an attack made by a bird upon a species of 
Elymnias :—“ Apropos of the footnote on p. 9 of your address 
at the Internat. Zool. Congr. at Berlin (1901), the following 
observation may interest you. It was made upon the 
common Llymnias undularis, at Aska in the Ganjam District 
of Madras, when I first went out, and this butterfly was then 
a novelty to me. As you doubtless know, the ? mimics 
Danais chrysippus, while the ¢ is totally different. It has 
rather skulking habits, keeps close in the shelter of the 
thickets, settles frequently, and seldom emerges into the 
