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in the attempt she went to the entrance of the burrow to 

 fetch him. 



In answer to a question by Dr. Dixey as to the effect of 

 light on the insects, the exhibitor said that the mere presence 

 of light had no effect on them at all, but that sudden changes 

 of light caused them to stop working. 



FURTHER RECORDS OF HYPOLIMNAS BOLINA, L., IN MADA- 

 GASCAR. — Prof. Poulton exhibited further examples of this 

 species from the same locality as the fifty-one shown by him 

 last year, and described in tabular form in our Proceedings 

 (1915, pp. lxi-lxiii). Thirty-four males and five females 

 collected in 1915 at Ambinanindrano, Mahanoro, east coast, 

 and kindly sent to Oxford by Archdeacon Kestell-Cornish 

 were shown to the meeting, together with nine males and six 

 females from the Tring Zoological Museum, kindly lent by 

 Lord Rothschild. These latter were collected (1911-14) in 

 the same locality, and all except one by Archdeacon Kestell- 

 Cornish. The exception, a female, was taken 1913-14 by the 

 Rev. H. Gedge. 



Some of the butterflies showed obvious indications of attack 

 by enemies, the clearest being a female (March, 1912) and a 

 male (June 10, 1915) with a part of the left hind-wing torn 

 away along a straight line, which retained the mark of a 

 bird's bill. The wing had evidently been seized from behind, 

 and the female showed, at the deepest point reached by the 

 injury, the impress of the bill-tip. The beak was thus shown 

 to be long and narrow, and Mr. Ogilvy Grant had suggested 

 that it may have been that of the Madagascar Roller Uraie- 

 lornis chimaera, Rothsch. Both hind-wings of a male (Sept, 4, 

 1915) were marked with a number of roughly parallel scratches 

 probably caused, as suggested by Dr. G. A. K. Marshall, by 

 the feet of a large Asilid fly. 



The specimens exhibited to the meeting are tabulated and 

 the seasonal forms of the males described on page xxii. 



Archdeacon Kestell-Cornish had kindly written, Dec. 26, 

 1915, giving a general account of the climate of Ambinanin- 

 drano : — 



" I do not know whether our seasons are sufficiently marked 



