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of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, living specimens of Ilelophorus tubercu- 

 latus, GylL, hitherto exceedingly rare as a British insect. These 

 were taken by Mr. Brown at the end of April, walking about on bare 

 dry peaty soil on the moors near Coatbridge. — Mr. O. E. Janson, a 

 new and remarkable Lamellicorn beetle, belonging to the Cremasto- 

 chilides group of the Cetoniidte, in which the anterior tarsi were 

 unmistakably six-jointed. He believed this was the first known 

 instance in the whole of the Coleoptera where the tarsal joints 

 exceeded five. The specimen was received from Uganda. Mr. C. 0. 

 Waterhouse suggested that it was probably an abnormal specimen, 

 six-jointed tarsi being so far unknown in entomology. Mr. G. C. 

 Champion expressed concurrence in this opinion. — Mr. A. Harrison, 

 a drawer of Delamere Forest Aplecta nebulosa, bred last year from 

 var. robsoni male and var. thompsoni female, by himself and Mr. 

 H. Main. Only fifty moths were bred, 26 per cent, of the grey form, 

 42 per cent, of robsoni, and 32 per cent, of tliompsoni. This result 

 quite negatives the idea that the form robsoni was a heterozygote or 

 hybrid (so-called), and that the grey form and thovi'psoni were homo- 

 zygotes or pure. All the previous results pointed to this conclusion, 

 but the results obtained last year show that the problem is not so 

 simple as this, and that it will require further experiments before it 

 can be solved. — Mr. Donisthorpe, three females of Lasius viixtus, 

 Nyl., a race of L. unibratus, Nyl., and a female of the latter for com- 

 parison. He remarked that there were only two previous records of 

 its capture in Britain. One of his specimens was taken at Wey- 

 bridge last year, and another at Mickleham, in company with Mr. 

 Crawley, where they each took a specimen last month. The third 

 was captured this year by Mr. Dollman in Eichmond Park. — Mr. H. 

 Eowland-Brown brought for exhibition examples of Agriades thetis 

 {bellargus) ab. female ccelestis, Obthr., taken last August at Dom- 

 pierre-sur-Mer, Charente-Inferieure. He said that, so far as is known 

 at present, this brilliant form of the blue female is confined in western 

 Europe to the west and south-west of France ; roughly speaking 

 between the valley of the Loire and the Gironde, where it occurs 

 locally not unfrequently ; the blue form of A. coridon female, var. 

 syngrapha also being found in the same calcareous region. — Mr. 

 G. W. V. de Rhe-Philipe exhibited and described several new Indian 

 butterflies, viz., Eitploici vmdciber var. duarseri male, Gharaxes raid- 

 haka male, Eiiripus consimilis, new female dimorphic form torsa, 

 Cyaniris parishii male, Nacaduba ardates var. male dima, and 

 new aberration of Terias silhetana. — Mr. H. M. Edelsten exhibited 

 three generations of Hybernia marginaria, being the result of a 

 pairing between a dark male and female taken wild in Epping Forest 

 in 1908. The 1909 brood did not vary much from the parents. The 

 1910 brood produced specimens with dark margins and three uni- 

 colorous males. The 1911 brood produced specimens with lighter 

 margins and dark interiors, but no unicolorous specimens. The 

 darkest males and females were paired in each case. These dark 

 forms have only appeared in Epping Forest the last few years. — Mr. 

 G. C. Champion sent round living specimens of Corymbites pxirpureus 

 and Morimus lugubris, taken by Dr. Chapman at Amelie-les-Bains, 

 Pyrenees Orientales. — Mr. L. W. Newman showed a stick of Salix 



