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godarti, Lucas, the lavender apical patch on the fore-wing first. 
appearing as a minute trace in certain individuals, gradually 
becoming larger in others. Similar transition occurred in 
the development of the white marginal spots of the hind- 
wing. Mr. Heron had noticed intermediate forms between 
these two Euploeas about ten years ago, and had arranged 
them in the coliection of the British Museum as _ possible 
hybrids between godarti and felderi, Butl. ( = amymone). 
Among the three specimens thus arranged was one captured 
by Commander J. J. Walker in May, 1892. Mr. Kershaw’s 
results throw new and unexpected light on the subject ; for 
not only has he shown the gradual transition, but he has even 
succeeded more than once in breeding well-marked individuals 
of the one form from well-marked individuals of the other. 
He also states the larve eat the same food-plant, and are 
exactly alike, as also are the pupe. After this evidence 
there can be no doubt that we are dealing with a single 
species, and godarti becomes a subspecific form of amymone. 
It is hoped that on some future occasion parent and offspring 
will be shown to the Society, and represented in one of the 
plates of the Transactions. The speaker expressed the opinion 
that Mr. Kershaw’s observation was one of those important 
pieces of work which opened the way to a great deal more. 
He believed that there was no group in which such work is: 
more wanted than in’ the Euploeina. 
The Prestpent also exhibited a photograph, taken by Mr. 
Alfred Robinson of the Oxford University Museum, showing 
the Xylocopid model and its Asilid mimic exhibited by Mr. 
E. E. Green at the meeting of June 1 (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond, 
1904, p. xxxix). The example was particularly interesting, 
inasmuch as Mr. Green’s record of the mimic circling round 
its model tended to support the view that the bee is the prey 
of the fly. (See Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1904, pp. 661-663.) 
Mr. Robinson’s photograph of model and mimic is reproduced 
on the following page. 
Dr. G. B. Lonesrarr gave an account of his entomological 
experiences during a tour through India and Ceylon, October 
10, 1203, to March 26, 1904. A main object had been to make 
bionomic observations on common butterflies. The specimens 
taken had been placed in the Hope Collection at Oxford. 
