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window outlined with brown, sometimes in the form of a narrow line, 

 sometimes spreading peripherally into the leaf for a greater or less 

 distance. In the strawberry leaves the edges of the windows were 

 somewhat ragged, but those of the other two leaves had smooth 

 contours and strikingly resembled the oval transparent areas upon the 

 fore wings of Kallima inachis, j)aralekta, &c. — surrounded most con- 

 spicuously with a marginal zone of modified colour varying greatly in 

 tint and in extent in different individuals. Professor Poulton had 

 believed that these "windows" of Kallima represented holes gnawed 

 by larvae, and that the altered marginal zone reproduced the effect of 

 the attacks of fungi entering along the freshly exposed tissues of the 

 edge. But he now desired to withdraw his earlier hypothesis in favour 

 of the more probable and convincing suggestion made by Mr. Grove. — 

 Professor Poulton also showed a photograph of the fungus-like marks 

 on the wings of the Oriental Kallimas prepared under his direction by 

 Mr. Alfred Eobinson, of the Oxford University Museum. — Dr, Karl 

 Jordan communicated a note upon the variability of the genitalia in 

 Lepidoptera. — Dr. G. B. Longstaff detailed his observations on scents 

 in the male of Gonepteryx, and mentioned that whereas in the male 

 (jr. Cleopatra, the odour was strong, he had been unable to detect 

 any appreciable fragrance in G. rhamni. Such a difference, he said, 

 seemed to imply a physiological difference of the two forms point- 

 ing to specific distinction. — Dr. F. A. Dixey, in connection with Dr. 

 Longstaff's observations, exhibited the several forms of Gonepterijx 

 occurring in the paltearctic region, and demonstrated the variation of 

 wing coloration in the respective forms ranked as species. — Mr. 

 H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., read a note on the geographical affinities of 

 Japanese butterflies, numerous examples of which, taken by himself, 

 he also exhibited. Summing up his remarks, he said that during the 

 winter and spring months the plants and insects of Japan were, like 

 the climate, pal^arctic in character, yet during the summer and 

 autumn they were tropical. — Professor Christopher Aurivilius com- 

 municated a paper on " New African Lasiocampid^ in the British 

 Museum." — Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy communicated a " Memoir on the 

 Khyiichota taken by Dr. Wyllie chiefly in Beira and Lifu." — 

 H. Eowland-Brown, M.A., H071. Sec. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 Maij 11th. — Mr. Hugh Main, B. Sc, F.E.S., President, in the chair.— 

 Mr. Bevins, of Ongar, Essex, was elected a member. — Mr. Sich ex- 

 hibited the flowering spike of an asphodel which had grown in a 

 sheltered position in his garden at Chiswick. It originally came from 

 the West of Prance, but Dr. Chapman said it was not the same species 

 which formed the pabulum of Hastala hijerana in the Esterels. — Mr. 

 E. Adkin, the lantoscope recently brought out by Dr. Connold to 

 facilitate the examination of lantern-slides. — Mr. F. Noad Clark, an 

 old work on Microscopy, dated 1771, ' Micrographia Illustrum,' by 

 Geo. Adams, and called attention to the curious illustrations. — Dr. 

 Chapman, a short series of a moth, Metoptria viono(/raini>ia, allied to 

 Enclidia (jlyphica. They were taken in Sicily at the end of April. — ■ 

 Mr. Main, enormous larvre in spirits from the West Coast of Africa, 

 probably of some large species of Longicoru. — Mr. Lucas, the delicate 



