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firm of Staudinger and Bang-Haas. The following information 

 was furnished us by Herr Bang-Haas : — 



The species was met with in 1918 as a very noxious pest 

 which destroyed a large part of the fir woods in Pommern 

 and Brandenburg. All the country and school children were 

 engaged in destroying the moth, A careful examination was 

 made of 100,000 specimens, with the result that seven gynan- 

 dromorphs were found. Specimens 1 and 2 have right side 

 male and left side female. No. 3 has right side female and 

 left side male. No. 4 has right side with male antenna, 

 fore-wing female, hind-wing mostly male ; left side with 

 female antenna, wings male. No. 5 has right antenna female, 

 left antenna male, and wings female. No. 6 has both antennae 

 male, right fore-wing male, right hind- wing mostly female; 

 left wings female. No. 7 has right side male; left antennae 

 with reduced pectinations, left wings female. We note that 

 eight fore-wings are female, and six are male ; seven hind- 

 wings are female, two are intermediate, and five are male. 

 A full account with figures of these gynandromorphs will be 

 published later. 



New and rare Lepidoptera. — Mr. Talbot also exhibited 

 the following species : — 



A pair of the very rare alpine species Eriogaster arhusculae, 

 Frr., bred by Herr Standfuss from larvae obtained in the 

 Upper Engadine at 1800 metres. In 1912 10,000 larvae 

 were reared, but out of these only 20 S6 and 10 ?? could be 

 obtained. A full account of the life-history has been given 

 by Standfuss in the " Mitteilungen der Entomologia," Zurich, 

 1916. 



Papilio levassori, Ob. — Described in 1890 from a single 

 specimen. Two others exist in the Paris Museum. This 

 remarkable species belongs to the leonidas and brasidas group 

 according to a study of the genitalia made by Monsieur F. 

 Le Cerf of the Paris Museum. It is wrongly placed by 

 Aurivillius in the ucalegon group. The species is only known 

 from the Great Comoro Island. 



Salamis augustina, Bbv.— A male specimen from Reunion 

 Island. Also occurs in Madagascar. A male specimen from 

 Mauritius formerly in the collection of the late Roland Trimen. 



