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hind-wings injured, in many cases apparently bitten com- 
pletely out, and I incline to the belief that Mantidz are the 
chief enemies of butterflies in the imago stage. A few days 
ago I noticed a very large green Mantis ‘stalking’ an J. pallene. 
The Mantis apparently was trying to edge round to the part 
where the tails were. I watched it for some time, when 
unfortunately a wasp settled on the flower and frightened 
the pallene away.” 
Professor Poutton observed that it was extremely interest- 
ing thus to gain further independent evidence in favour of 
the interpretation of the “tails” of Lycenide as antenna- 
like directive structures adapted to divert the attacks of an 
enemy from a vital to a non-vital part of their prey. It is 
difficult to resist the conclusion that this interpretation is 
correct when it has been independently reached by so many 
naturalists :—Dr. Arnold and Dr. Forsstrém (quoted by Kirby 
and Spence in 1817 as Dr. G. B. Longstaff has recently pointed 
out*), Dr. R. C. L. Perkins, Dr. Richard Evans, Mr. Champion 
B. Russell, Mr. E. A. Floyer, Dr. Longstaff, and lastly by the 
excellent observer who is quoted on the present occasion. (See 
Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1902, pp. 373,374; 1906, pp. 106, 107.) 
Professor E. B. Poutton also exhibited the four individuals 
of Luralia mima, Trim., and the four of E. wahlbergi, Wallgr., 
captured by Mr. G, A. K. Marshall on the Umbilo River, near 
Malvern, Natal, on June 28, 1897, as described in Trans. Ent. 
Soe. Lond., 1902, pp. 491, 492. He showed their respective 
Danaine models Amawris echeria, Boisd., and A. niavius, L., 
form dominicanus, Trim., and explained the reasons why Mr. 
Marshall considered the mimics to be two forms of a single 
species (/.c. p. 491). Professor Poulton had written to Mr. 
G. F. Leigh, advising him to make the attempt to breed from 
one form or the other, and thus settle the question. Mr. Leigh 
had done his best but failed in this attempt. He had how- 
* Dr. Longstaff’s recent note (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1906, pp. 106, 
107) referring to my discussion of the tails of Lycenids (1. c., 1902, p- 374), 
supplies a good example of the liability to error in quoting an unusual 
name. In my account the name Forsstrom is rendered Forsstrona, in 
Dr. Longstaff’s Forstrém. The generic name Hesperia, which at first 
puzzled Dr. Longstaff in the first edition of Kirby and Spence (1817), is 
replaced by 7'hecla in the fifth (1828, vol. ii, p. 251). Hesperia persists in 
the third edition (1823, vol. ii, p. 254). I have not seen the fourth. [E.B.P. ] 
