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  Capture. 
  Anyway 
  tliese 
  spine-tailed 
  things 
  are 
  mostly 
  in 
  

   South 
  America, 
  and 
  the 
  Oriental 
  and 
  Austro 
  -Malayan 
  regions 
  

   (I 
  do 
  not 
  know 
  about 
  Africa). 
  There 
  must 
  be 
  some 
  reason 
  for 
  

   this. 
  What 
  is 
  it 
  ? 
  " 
  

  

  The 
  only 
  two 
  genera 
  about 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  any 
  information 
  

   both 
  occur 
  in 
  India, 
  viz. 
  Catascojnts 
  and 
  Coljwcles. 
  In 
  North 
  

   India 
  Catascopus 
  facialis, 
  Wied, 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  

   is 
  toothed 
  only, 
  occurs 
  under 
  the 
  bark 
  of 
  felled 
  trees, 
  which 
  has 
  

   become 
  partially 
  detached 
  from 
  the 
  trunk. 
  His 
  notes 
  all 
  

   referred 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  tree, 
  known 
  in 
  N. 
  India 
  as 
  " 
  sal 
  " 
  {Shorea 
  

   robusta), 
  but 
  that 
  might 
  be 
  because 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  common 
  timber 
  

   tree 
  of 
  those 
  parts. 
  Eegarding 
  Colpodes 
  he 
  could 
  only 
  suggest 
  

   that 
  it 
  sometimes 
  lives 
  in 
  trees, 
  and 
  lizards 
  sometimes 
  live 
  

   also 
  in 
  trees, 
  but 
  he 
  thought 
  that 
  any 
  connection 
  betw^een 
  

   these 
  two 
  facts 
  could 
  only 
  be 
  determined 
  by 
  actual 
  observation. 
  

   Several 
  Fellows 
  commented 
  on 
  this 
  exhibit, 
  Mr. 
  Donis- 
  

   THOKPE 
  observing 
  that 
  there 
  was 
  also 
  a 
  genus 
  of 
  Australian 
  

   ants 
  (Polyrhachis) 
  remarkable 
  for 
  their 
  spines. 
  

  

  North 
  Italian 
  Butterflies. 
  — 
  Lt. 
  E. 
  B. 
  Ashby 
  exhibited 
  

   the 
  following 
  species 
  taken 
  recently 
  in 
  North 
  Italy 
  : 
  — 
  Males 
  

   and 
  females 
  of 
  Thais 
  polyxena 
  ab. 
  meta, 
  from 
  Stupinigi 
  Wood, 
  

   Turin, 
  April 
  1919 
  ; 
  2 
  fresh 
  specimens 
  of 
  Euvanessa 
  antiopa, 
  

   from 
  Arquata 
  Scrivia, 
  Piedmont, 
  July 
  1918, 
  also 
  a 
  hybernated 
  

   specimen 
  from 
  Lakes 
  of 
  Avigliana, 
  April 
  1919 
  ; 
  1 
  male 
  of 
  the 
  

   spring 
  brood 
  of 
  Chrysophanus 
  disjMr, 
  var. 
  rutilus, 
  from 
  the 
  

   banks 
  of 
  the 
  Stura, 
  Turin, 
  May 
  1919 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  7 
  males 
  

   and 
  7 
  females 
  of 
  the 
  autumn 
  brood 
  from 
  Stupinigi 
  Wood, 
  Turin, 
  

   September 
  1919 
  ; 
  4 
  males 
  and 
  1 
  female 
  of 
  Satyrus 
  statilinus, 
  

   from 
  Arquata 
  Scrivia, 
  Piedmont, 
  August 
  1919 
  ; 
  and 
  3 
  males 
  

   and 
  2 
  females 
  of 
  Enodia 
  dryas, 
  from 
  Stupinigi 
  Wood, 
  Turin, 
  

   July 
  1919. 
  

  

  A 
  NEW 
  Race 
  op 
  Plebeius 
  aegon 
  masseyi. 
  — 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  J. 
  Lister 
  

   exhibited 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  P. 
  aegon 
  var. 
  masseyi, 
  Tutt, 
  made 
  in 
  

   N. 
  Lancashire 
  and 
  Westmoreland 
  in 
  July 
  1918 
  and 
  1919, 
  with 
  

   series 
  of 
  the 
  heath 
  form 
  from 
  the 
  New 
  Forest, 
  of 
  var. 
  cretacea 
  

   from 
  the 
  North 
  Downs, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  forms 
  from 
  Delamere 
  Forest, 
  

   Cheshire 
  and 
  Great 
  Orme's 
  Head, 
  Caernarvonshire, 
  for 
  com- 
  

   parison. 
  He 
  said 
  : 
  — 
  -Var. 
  masseyi 
  appears 
  to 
  be 
  now 
  limited 
  

   to 
  the 
  estuarine 
  mosses 
  which 
  lie 
  along 
  the 
  courses 
  of 
  the 
  rivers 
  

  

  