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over the type form of female (Proc. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1909, 

 pp. xxxvi, xxxvii). 



The second consists of the butterflies bred, in September, 

 1 909, from a single company of larvae oiBelenois severina. Part 

 of these larvae were: fed from an early stage, when quite small, 

 upon young fresh leaves, — the other part upon old dry leaves. 

 The latter were accidentally starved in the last stage, and the 

 butterflies (26) that emerged from their pupae are consider- 

 ably smaller than those (22) produced by the other set. Before 

 starvation, however, the larvae of the second set, growing more 

 slowly, appeared likely to produce larger butterflies than those 

 of the first. 



In addition to the above described valuable accessions which 

 have been incoi'porated, and are now gratefully acknowledged, 

 very large numbers of specimens presented by the same donor 

 are being catalogued and will be described in detail in the 

 report of next year. 



Ninety-eight Blattidae collected in the Congo basin by 

 Dr. Sheffield Neave were presented by le Musee du Congo, 

 Brussels. The collection includes co-types of the following new 

 species described by Mr. Shelford : — Ischnoptcra bisignata, 

 Ectobitis neavei, Lohoptera iinicolor, Blatta bar bar a, Stylopyga 

 immunda, S. neavei, and Bantua valida. 



A set of 178 butterflies, 23 moths, 2 Odonata, and i beetle, 

 captured in Sierra Leone (1908) by Q.M. Sergeant Lawrence, 

 was purchased for the Department. Among the butterflies is 

 the male of the rare Mimacraea fulvaria, and several other 

 specimens wanted in the general collection, and a few which 

 have been added to the bionomic series. 



In the Report of 1908 mention was made of 7 Char axes 

 neantJies and i C. zoolina bred at Durban from the eggs laid 

 by a female neaiithes by Mr. G. F. Leigh, F.E.S. These ex- 

 amples, the first convincing evidence of the long-suspected 

 specific identity of the two forms, were purchased for the 

 Department. During the year 1909 the same keen naturalist 

 and observer has confirmed his previous evidence in the most 

 satisfactory way by breeding from a female zoolina. The 

 parent, captured at Durban (April 3), laid 49 eggs (April 3-6) 



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