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Ten wet season and dry season forms of Precis and 

 Pieriiiac. 



Three Jamaican Satyrinc butterflies {Calisto zangis) set to 

 show the exposure of the eye-spot at the anal angle of the 

 under surface of the hind wing. The anal angle is bent at 

 right angles to the plane of the wing so that the ocellus can 

 be seen from above. 



Three examples of a Jamaican Hesperid butterfly and 2 of 

 a Jamaican Uraniid moth set to show the position and plane 

 of the " tails " of the hind wings when the insect is at rest. 



All these instructive illustrations were prepared under the 

 direction of Dr. Longstaff" or selected by him from the 

 collection. 



A male specimen of the beautiful Nymphaline mimic, 

 Psendacraea trinienii, and one of its Acraeine models, A. areca^ 

 captured on the same day (Nov. 3, 1906) at Rabai, near 

 Mombasa, and presented by Rev. K. St. Aubyn Rogers, M.A., 

 F.E.S., Wadham College, have been catalogued and added to 

 the bionomic series. 



Additions to the Collections in 1908. 



Six PJiasviidae (" stick insects ") of an Indian species, a 

 product of breeding for several generations in this country, 

 were presented by J. W. Carter, Esq. The breeding was in 

 part at least parthenogenetic. The species is at present un- 

 determined. 



Thirty-two insects of various groups from Ootacamund, 

 S. India (April-September, 1908), were presented by the 

 captor. Miss Ruth Harrison, of Lady Margaret Hall. 



Nineteen Coleoptera from Stellenbosch, Cape Colony (1908), 

 were presented by the captor. Miss L. C. Blundell. 



Six insects from Pondoland, Cape Colony (1907-8), were 

 presented by the captor, F. H. Cowl, Esq. 



The very fine collection of insects made in Ceylon by 

 Dr. G. B. Longstaff, D.M., New College (1907-8), was only 

 provisionally acknowledged in last year's Report. It has now 



