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'• I wa.s looking at the Eur ytelae in the British IMuseum the day 

 before I left, and I was interested to notice that the southern 

 form of (Iryope. differs notably from lilarhas in the disposition 

 of the markings below the cell on under-side of f.w. But in 

 one of the western forms {aliiida, I think it is,) these markings 

 are identical with those of the western liiarhas, and the h.w. 

 band is also very similar in width and position ; so that this 

 possibly represents the more primitive form of dnjope." 



Heredity in the female forms of Hypolimnas misippus. 

 — Professor Poulton showed a series of forty-nine females and 

 seven males (being all that had been kept of this sex) of 

 Hypolimnas misi^ipus, bred by Rev. K. St. Aubyn Pogers, 

 M.A., F.E.S., from a female captured October 31st, 1908, at 

 Rabai, near Mombasa, British East Africa, where the inaria 

 form of female is no commoner than the type form. The 

 female parent was intermediate between the type and the 

 inaria form, but on the whole nearer the former : it bore 

 a very faint white patch on each hind-wing, thus slightly 

 tending towards the var. alcippoides. It was a very remark- 

 able fact that the whole of the female offspring were inaria,— 

 not a single type form, not a single intermediate. On the other 

 hand, twenty-one specimens possessed to a variable extent, and 

 on the whole very slightly, the alcipjwides characteristic of a 

 white patch on the hind-wing. The dates of emergence of 

 the females (including a crippled inaria emerging Nov. 27th 

 and not retained) and the whole of the males were as follows, 

 the letter a indicating aJcipp)oides : — 

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Professor Poulton said that this remarkable experiment 

 perhaps tended to support Col. Manders' suggestion that the 

 species could be influenced in the direction of the inaria form 



