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beetle and is revealed when the wings are raised. In these 

 the elytra or ''wing-covers" are often reduced, becoming very 

 narrow or small and scale-like. In others, the elytra, at rest 

 and completely covering the hind wings, are themselves 

 banded like a wasp. Our own " wasp-beetle," Clytiis arieiis, is 

 a well-known example. The effect of this latter form of resem- 

 blance is of course lost when the elytra are raised and separated 

 in preparation for, and during, flight. In Tragocertis, however, 

 Mr. Gahan has pointed out that the elytra, which bear the 

 peculiar and characteristic pattern of many Australian wasps, 

 are so shaped that the wings are probably used when their 

 "covers" are closed. The side of each elytron is, as it were, 

 cut out opposite to the hinge of the organ of flight. The 

 specimen presented by Commander Walker has been set with 

 fully expanded hind wings projecting through the arch-like 

 emargination in the sides of the closed elytra. 



Seven Aculeate Hymenoptcra, from the flowers of a single 

 tree of OcJiradermis baccaius, in the dry bed of the Wady 

 Kelt, near Jericho (April 2, 1909), were presented by the 

 captor, Rev. F.- D. Morice, M.A., F.E.S., Queen's College. 

 During life, the resemblances between the species, which 

 belong to various groups, were very marked. The associa- 

 tion, which is probably Mullerian, was exhibited by the 

 donor to the Entomological Society of London on Nov. 3, 

 1909 (see p. 14). 



A fine series of 468 Lepidoptera, chiefly butterflies, from 

 Banyuls-sur-Mer and Argeles-sur-Mer, at the eastern extremity 

 of the Pyrenees (July and August, 1909), was presented 

 by the captors, W. F. Lanchester, Esq., M.A., of King's 

 College, Cambridge, and Professor E. A. Minchin, M.A., 

 Keble College. About half have been catalogued and, with 

 many additional uncatalogued specimens, incorporated in the 

 collection. The Satyrinae are especially well represented 

 by 155 specimens. The collection includes a specimen of 

 the " Humming-bird Hawk-moth " {Macroglossa stcUataruDi) 

 with its " tongue " fixed in the flower of a creeper, apparently 

 an Asclepiad. This moth, which was found dead hanging 

 from the flower, on Aug. 3, is an interesting addition to the 



