(aca) §) {Ixxviii, 1xxxiii 
Wednesday, October 17th, 1906. 
Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a fine example of the remarkable 
moth Draconia rusina, Druce, from Trinidad. The species 
bears a wonderful resemblance to a decayed dead leaf, the 
patches on the wings also suggesting the work of some leaf- 
mining insect. The margins of the wings were so deeply 
indented as to make it appear that the specimen was greatly 
damaged. The species was originally described by Druce from 
Guatemala in the “ Biol. Cent. Am. Heterocera,” p. 188, and 
was figured on Plate IX, fig. 9. There it was placed in the 
Siculodide, a small family created to include a few allied 
species, but was put into the Thyridide by Hampson, the family 
embracing the Siculodidz. On imaginal characters the insect 
was undoubtedly a Thyridid, although in general appearance 
wholly different from the two European Thyridids. The 
specimen exhibited, and also figured for the Society (Plate 
XXXII), had been found at rest on the ground. But it was 
probably a night flyer as the exhibitor had taken one or two 
other related species in British Guiana at night. 
Dr. F. A. Drxey exhibited specimens of Jvias baliensis, 
Fruhst., and Huphina corva, Wallace, remarking upon them as 
follows :— 
“Some short while since, a few Pierine butterflies from the 
Island of Bali, which formed part of a collection kindly 
presented to the Hope Department by their captor, Mr. R. 
Shelford, were put into my hands for incorporation with the 
general series. The butterflies when they reached me had 
been set up, and, as was supposed, had been sorted into 
species. Among a somewhat worn series of the Malayan 
form (ZH. corva, Wallace), of Huphina nerissa, Fabr., one female 
caught my eye as being in rather better condition than the 
rest. On being examined more closely, it was seen to be not 
a Huphina at all, but an Jzias; a genus,as I need hardly say, 
of very different affinities. The specimen is, in fact, a female 
of the Bali form of Jxias reinwardtii, Voll. ; the form which 
has been called baliensis by Fruhstorfer. It is quite near 
enough in appearance to the Huphinas with which it was 
