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— Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., exhibited two cases of Arctic butterflies. 

 The first contained specimens from a collection formed by Mr. David 

 Hanbury on the Arctic coast of North America, in the region where 

 the Parry expedition was lost. Of the butterflies observed — fifteen 

 species in all — two had not been taken since they were first described 

 by Curtis sixty years ago. Among them was Colias bootJdi. This 

 species, in comparison with Colias hecla, Lef., is undoubtedly distinct 

 in both sexes, but it is most remarkable that the male in colouration 

 and markings appears to approximate more closely to the characters 

 usual in the females of other members of the genus. The collection 

 contained nothing new, but included the rare and curious Arr/i/nnis 

 improba, Butler, hitherto taken only in Novaya Zembla ; a remarkable 

 aberration of A. chariclea, Schn., in which the black netting marks 

 were resolved into smeared black lines ; A. pales, for the first time 

 from this region, precisely similar to the form taken on the east of the 

 Lena river in Siberia ; and Cmionympha tipJum closely resembling the 

 form from Kamtschatka. The second case contained specimens col- 

 lected by a Russian between Jakutsk and Verchojansk in north-eastern 

 Siberia at about the same latitude, 67°, as the preceding exhibit. 

 They included many species which occur in the western palaearctic 

 region, such as Aporia craUvgi, Tiiphysa phryne, Cmnonympha iphis, 

 Argynnis selene, A. ino, MelitcEa phccbe, &c., and most remarkable of all 

 Neptis liicUla. Also Parnassias delius, which Mr. Elwes said was the 

 first Parnassius he had seen from within the Arctic circle, and Colias 

 viluiensis, Men., an insect peculiar to Siberia, showing remarkable 

 female aberrant forms. — Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse gave an account of a 

 nest of a bee, Triyona collina, recently received from Malacca. Speci- 

 mens were exhibited, as were also males and a worker of the much 

 smaller species, Triyona rujicornis, Smith, received at the same time 

 from Singapore, and sent by Mr. H. N. Ridley. — Mr. W. J. Kaye ex- 

 hibited two drawers containing Danaine, Ithomiine, and Heliconine 

 species from British Guiana, all of similar colouration, and forming a 

 Miillerian association with a black hind wing. A diagrammatic table 

 was shown with the exhibit, which included the following species : — 

 lihomdn^Q, Melinmi crameri, M. mneme, M. eyina, ilf. n. sp., Ceratinia 

 veritabilis, C. sp., Mechanitis doryssics ; Danainse, Lycorea ceres, L. 

 pasinuntia ; Heliconinffi, Heliconius vetustus, H. namata, H. sylvana, 

 Eueides n. sp. ; and Erycinidte, Stalachtis calliope. — The following papers 

 were communicated : — "On the Hypsid Genus Deilemera, Hij.bner," 

 by Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S. " An Account of a Collec- 

 tion of Rhopalocera made in the Anambara Creek in Nigeria, West 

 Africa," by Mr. P. J. Lathy. " Some Notes on the Habits of Nanopkyes 

 durieai, Lucas, as observed in Central Spain by Mr. G. C. Champion, 

 F.Z.S., and Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., with a description of the 

 larva and pupa by Dr. T. A. Chapman." — H. Rowland-Beown, Hon. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 January 8th, 1903. — Mr. F. Noad Clark, President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. Oldaker, of Dorking ; Mr. Spitzby, of Canonbury ; Mr. Priske, of 

 Acton ; Mr. Pratt, of Richmond; and Mr. Goulton, of Balham, were 

 elected members. — Mr. Goulton exhibited an extreme form of the 

 light-coloured Folkestone race of F/maturga atomaria. — Mr. Chittenden, 

 a short series of Ephyra pendularia, including very fine examples of 



