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Butterflies from Mesopotamia. — The Secretary read 

 the following letter : — 



"26 Dec. 1919, 

 " (Mosul). 

 " Dear Sir, 



" With reference to ' The Poverty of the Butterfly 

 Fauna of Mesopotamia ' in a recent number of the Society's 

 Transactions in which Prof. Poulton quotes a letter from Capt. 

 P. A. Buxton, R.A.M.C., giving about 9 species as the total 

 so far met with by that officer in Mesopotamia, it might 

 interest you to mention that although this is probably about 

 the number of species to be found at Amara (I saw a male Ixias 

 pyrene close to me at some flowers there), many more species 

 are to be found above Baghdad, about the low hills or ' jebels ' 

 near the Persian and Kurdistan borders ; and I am acquainted 

 with at least 42 species of Mesopotamia, having myself taken 31 

 of these species there, apart from some 14 more in N. Persia. 



" Yours, etc., 

 " H. D. Peile 

 " (Lt.-CoL, I.M.S.)." 



Paper. 



The following paper was read : — 



" The full-grown Larva of Lycaena euphemus, Hb.," by T. A. 

 Chapman, M.D., F.R.8., etc. 



Wednesday, October 20th, 1920. 

 Mr. W. G. Sheldon, F.Z.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Election of Fellows. 

 Dr. F. Gr. Rambousek, vii/1169 Prague, Czecko-Slovakia ; 

 Messrs. William F, Schlupp, B.Sc, The School of Agriculture 

 and Experiment Station, Potchefstroom, Transvaal; George 

 Harold Skaife, M.A., Agricultural College, Cedara, Natal, 

 S. Africa; and Robert Owen Wahl, B.A., Groot Fontein 



