— SO- 

 LE De C. Meldrum Vice-President dit que le Dr 

 Poupinel ne ponvfint assister a la reunion, I'a prie de 

 le remplacer comme president. 



Le Secretairb depose sur la table les brochures 

 auivantes : 



lo. Bulletin de la societe iraperiale des natura- 

 listes de Moscou. 



2o. Third Annual Report of the Board of Trustees 

 of the public museum of the Oity oi! Milwaukee. 



3o. Comptes-Rendus de I'Academie de Medecine. 



M. J. HoRNE donne ensuite lecture d'une commu- 

 nication sur la flore de I'ile Plate. 



Lb Secretaire demande si la citronnelle de I'ile 

 Plate est semblable a celle de Ceylan. 



M. J. HoRNB repond qu'elles sont a peu pres 

 semblables. A Ceylan on en'cultive sur une tres grande 

 echelle. 



Lb Presideet propose un vote de I'emerciments 

 a M. J. Home pour son interessante communication. 



Notes on Mimicry among Insects or Protection 

 Resemhlance in Insects. 



Our corresponding Member of Antananarivo 

 (Madag :) Uevd. J. iSibree writes in the Antananarivo 

 Annual for 1885, the following ; 



"In rambling through the forest near Ambohidratri- 

 mo in December of last year,I was several times struck 

 by the curious formation of the wings of one of the 

 small species of butterfly common in these woods^ 

 The insect in question is of plain inconspicuous co- 

 louring, chieflly a shade of brown, and, when at rest 

 sits with the wings erect and near touching one 

 another. The curious point about it is that there are 

 several somewhat strongly marked and darktinted 

 processes from the hinder point of the wings, which 



