EXTRACTS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 
(APRIL 4TH—JUNE 6TH, 1906.) 
Wednesday, April 4th, 1906. 
Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited examples of butterflies taken by 
him last year in Majorea showing injury to the wings, caused 
in his opinion by the attacks of lizards. He remarked that a 
large proportion of the few butterflies met with in the island 
were mutilated, especially at the posterior part of the hind- 
wings. A Gonepteryx cleopatra and a Pararge megera had 
semicircular pieces removed, while another specimen of the 
latter showed that quite half the hind-wings had been removed 
as though cut by a pair of scissors. 
Dr. G. B. Lonestarr observed that these butterflies appeared 
to be much more irregularly treated than the species he had 
noticed to be similarly attacked in India, and Mr.W.G.SHetpon 
agreed with the exhibitor as to the cause of the damage, 
observing that it was unusual where he had collected to find 
insects attacked in this peculiar way where lizards did not 
exist. 
Wednesday, May 2nd, 1906. 
Commander J. J. Waker showed fourteen examples of 
both sexes of Hystrichopsylla talpe, Curtis, the largest of the 
British fleas, taken in the nest of a field-mouse in a tuft of 
grass at Grange, near Gosport, Hants., on March 28th, last. 
Dr, F, A. Drxey exhibited male and female specimens of 
the African Pierines Belenois thysa, Hopff., and Mylothris 
agathina, Cram. He drew special attention to the fact that 
the resemblance between these two species, which Mr. Trimen 
