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since. It was in 1914, as marked on the paper, and of course 

 after my arrival here in October, but I do not remember the 

 date exactly." 



Mr. E. E. Green observed that in Ceylon the yellow pig- 

 ment was absent in the case of three species of Teracolus, and 

 Dr. Eltringham added that in Acraea egina the red pigment 

 failed in Sesse Island. 



The tragic history of a butterfly, probably Hypo- 

 limnas bolina, l., from easter island.— pr of. poulton 

 said that his friends Mr. and Mrs. Scoresby Routledge, who 

 had been investigating the wonderful stone images of Easter 

 Island, had tried to send to him the only butterfly seen during 

 their visit. It was quite unknown to the natives, who have 

 no word for " butterfly," and spoke of the visitor as " the 

 little bird." Mr. Routledge captured the insect, and it was 

 packed up and handed with letters, etc., to von Spee's German 

 Pacific Squadron when it touched at Easter Island. Letters 

 were posted at Valparaiso and duly received, but the package 

 with the butterfly was probably retained under the impression 

 that the contents were valuable. If this interpretation were 

 correct there could be little doubt that the specimen went 

 down in the Battle of the Falkland Islands. Prof. Poulton 

 had shown examples of H. bolina to his friends, who felt sure 

 that their butterfly was a male of this species. 



W. L. W. Field's researches upon N. American butter- 

 flies OF THE GENUS LlMENITIS (BASILARCHIA). — Prof. POULTON 



said that he wished to draw attention to three important 

 papers on the species of Limenitis (Basilarchia) from the north- 

 eastern United States, contributed by W. L. W. Field, of 

 Milton, Mass., to " Psyche." In the first paper, " Problems 

 in the genus Basilarchia " (vol xi, Feb. 1904, p. 1, Plates I— III) 

 the author summarised " the existing knowledge of these 

 forms, in order to prepare the way for methodical investiga- 

 tion." After defining the range and giving the larval food- 

 plants of the three generally recognised species — arthemis, 

 Drury, astyanax, Fab., and archippus, Cram., — he described 

 and figured the problematic forms which seemed to connect 

 the above-named insects — proserpina, Edwards, between 

 arthemis and astyanax; arthechippus, Scudder, between 



