mei, XI, XIV] ( #55 5) 
of the larva of S. pavonia (‘British Lepidoptera,’ vol, iii, 
pp. 325, 326) may give rise unintentionally to a false impres- 
sion. The eighty larve there spoken of as having been 
received from Norfolk were reared by myself, and not, as 
might appear from Mr. Tutt’s account, by Professor Poulton, 
who indeed to the best of my belief never saw them. I must 
therefore assume the entire responsibility for the description 
of their markings which Mr. Tutt quotes. In the succeeding 
year I raised a fresh brood, numbering 120, from two of the 
pink-tubercled larve of 1885, the parent imagines being still 
in my possession; 40 of these 1886 larvee were reared and 
described by myself, and 80 were given by me to Professor 
Poulton, who also duly noted their appearance in the last 
stage, as recorded by Mr. Tutt. My original account will be 
found in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1887, pp. 310, 311, having 
been kindly incorporated by Professor Poulton, at my own 
request, with his ‘Notes in 1886 upon Lepidopterous Larve.’ 
On reference to this account it will be seen that Professor 
Poulton fully acknowledges the source of the description.” 
Professor I. B. Pounron, F.R.S., exhibited (1) Groups of 
Synaposematic Hymenoptera and Diptera captured by Mr. 
A. H. Hamm, of the Hope Department, Oxford University 
Museum, and (2) Three specimens of Papilio hesperus, taken 
at Entebbe in 1903, by Mr. C. A. Wiggins. The attention 
of the exhibitor had to be called by Mr. W. Holland, of the 
Hope Department, to the fact that the tails of the hind-wing 
had not been broken off in these excessively worn and torn 
specimens. The evidence supports the conclusion that the 
tails of a Papilio, if untouched by enemies, can endure a great 
deal of wear. (3) Professor Pouuron also showed Nymphaline 
butterflies from Northern China, apparently mimetic of the 
male Hypolimnas misippus, which is not known to occur in 
this region. 
Wednesday, March 15th, 1905. 
Exhibitions. 
Dr. F. A. Drxry exhibited some butterflies from Natal which 
had been presented by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, F.E.S., to the 
Hope Department at Oxford, and read the following note :— 
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