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ferring upon August the distinction of being the hottest for twenty- 

 two years. On September 1st the temperature in England was 

 declared to be "hotter than at the Azores." It was too hot in the 

 daytime for collecting, and I contented myself with searching for 

 well-marked females of the butterfly L. icarus-alexis (last brood), in a 

 well-known haunt — but about six o'clock, p.m., after the sun went 

 down. This was an easy matter, for the butterflies were at rest on 

 withered grass and flower-heads, and, as in the case of L. agon, all 

 head downwards. — J. Arkle ; Chester. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, March 6th, 

 1907. — Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, President, in the chair. — Mr. John C. 

 Moulton, of The Hall, Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts. ; Mr. W. Schmass- 

 man, of 2, Kinnoul Villas, Freezywater, Waltham Cross ; and Mr. 

 B. J. Tillyard, B.A., The Grammar School, Sydney, New South 

 "Wales, were elected Fellows of the Society. — The President pro- 

 posed the following resolution, seconded by Professor E. B. Poulton, 

 D.Sc, F.R.S., &c. : " That this Society, being informed that a proposal 

 has been made that children in our schools be instructed to collect 

 objects of Natural History for the purpose of exchanging them for 

 similar objects collected by school-children in our Colonies, deprecates 

 the adoption of any such system." After a discussion, in which the 

 destructive and fatal results to our national fauna of indiscriminate 

 collecting by inexperienced persons was commented upon, the reso- 

 lution was adopted unanimously. — Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., 

 exhibited male specimens of the Danaine butterflies, Amauris egialea, 

 Cram., and Limnas chrysipjms, collected at Ibidan, near Lagos. The 

 interest of the specimens lay in the fact that the scent-producing 

 patch near the anal angle of the hind wing had been eaten out on both 

 sides, although only a minute portion of any other part of the wing- 

 surface had been attacked, the facts appearing thus to tell strongly 

 against the view that specially protective (aposematic) substances are, 

 as some have supposed, concentrated in the male scent-glands. — Dr. 

 F. Dixey, specimens of Teracolus achine, Cram., and Belenois severina, 

 Cram., bred and captured at Salisbury, Mashonaland, by Mr. G. A. K. 

 Marshall. The exhibit showed that in both species the appearance of 

 the wet-season phase could be induced under artificial conditions in a 

 brood that should normally have belonged to the dry-season form. The 

 specimens of B. severina also exemplified the effect of moisture alone 

 as contrasted with moisture and heat. — Mr. Selwyn Image brought 

 for exhibition an aberration of Odezia atrata, L., taken by Dr. G. B. 

 Longstaff at Mortehoe, North Devon, on June 26th, 1906. The 

 specimen differed very obviously from the ordinary form. The fore- 

 wings were rather sharply angulated at the apex instead of rounded, 

 and the colouring generally suggested a tendency to albinism. — Mr. W. 

 J. Kaye exhibited a series of the genus Heliconius, arranged to illustrate 

 Riffarth's division of the group by a secondary sexual character, a result 

 of this being the discovery that what had hitherto been regarded as a 



