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EXTRACTS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 
(OcroBER 3RD—DECEMBER 5TH, 1906). 
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 1906. 
Commander J. J. Watker exhibited (1) a specimen of 
Calosoma sycophanta taken in Denny Wood, New Forest, 
June 16th; (2) Lygxus equestris, L., found in the Isle of 
Sheppey by Lieut. Jacobs, R.E., on September 22nd ; (3) Sitaris 
muralis, taken near Oxford in August by Mr, A. H. Hamm ; 
(4) two varieties of Vanessa urtice, with a strong black liga- 
ment connecting the second costal and dorsal spot on the fore- 
wings, from the Isle of Sheppey, August; (5) a variety of 
Argynnis adippe 3, caught at Tubney, Berks., on July 7th ; 
(6) a slate-coloured variety of Lycena icarus ¢, taken near 
Chatham, August 24th; and (7) examples of an almost 
entirely black form of Strenia clathrata occurring at Streatley, 
Berks., in August—all taken this year. 
Dr. F. A. Drxey exhibited specimens of Vychitona medusa, 
Cram., Pseudopontia paradoxa, Feld., Terias senegalensis, Boisd., 
Leuceronia pharis, Boisd., and L. argia, Fabr., remarking upon 
them as follows :— 
‘‘Though there does not exist, so far as I am aware, any 
direct evidence that the members of the genus Vychitona* 
are distasteful, their habits are such as to suggest this mode 
of protection ; and there is, I think, little doubt that they 
have served as models for other insects. We find, for instance, 
a striking resemblance between the West African form of 
N. medusa called by Aurivillius immaculata, and the remark- 
able insect Pseudopontia paradoxa, Feld., as to whose affinities 
I will not venture to offer an opinion. Both forms are 
* T employ Dr. A. G. Butler’s name for a genus which has been 
variously knéwn as Pontia and Leptosia by ditferent authors. 
