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male and female specimens that I figured in my ‘ Rhopalocera 
Malayana,’ as representing Cramer’s species, must be really 
taken to portray Discophora zal, Westw. I cannot subscribe 
to this somewhat surprising decision, on the following 
grounds :— 
First :—The varietal male specimen which I figured, and 
which agreed with aJl male specimens then examined from 
the Malay peninsula in having the anterior wings unspotted, 
cannot in any case be considered a distinct ‘ Malayan race,” 
as I have since received specimens from Sungei Ujong with 
two of the three series of bluish spots described as typical of 
the Indian form of the species, but which are certainly not 
constant. But even supposing that the unspotted form was 
constant and constituted a distinct race, it could not then be 
taken as representing the D. zal (the male of which was un- 
known to Prof. Westwood when he described that species), as 
Mr. Moore possesses in his collection a male which he tells 
me agrees with the markings of the female of that species, 
and may therefore be considered typical. 
Secondly :—The female form which I figured does not agree 
with the original figure given by Westwood, which possesses 
a fourth inner row of spots, and also has the two outer series 
composed of differently-shaped spots. 
If, therefore, D. zal is really specifically distinct from D. 
tullia, as Mr. Moore’s male specimen would denote, it cer- 
tainly cannot be ascribed to my Malay specimens and figures, 
as stated by Marshall and De Nicéville; and as these figures 
undoubtedly show variation from the Indian form of D. tullia, 
as understood and figured by them, the course pursued should 
have been either to agree with me or to describe the Malay form 
as a new species!!—the last being an alternative that I, at least, 
am not prepared to take. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Lucilia macellaria infesting Man. 
By Freperick Hompert, M.D., F.C.S. 
A FARMER’s wife, thirty-five years of age, was attacked on Mon- 
day, September 27, 1875, with a headache and a flushed face. She 
stayed at work, expecting a malarial chill, an affection prevailing at 
that time in the neighbourhood. From this time the pains in the 
region of the frontal cavity at the base of the nose and below the 
eye, extending to the right ear, increased. At times the pain was 
