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him by Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton, all of which had been captured on 

 the outskirts (3800 ft.) of Chirinda Forest, Gazaland, South-east 

 Ehodesia : — (1) The female form hippocoon of Papilio dardamis cenea, 

 Stoll, rescued, September 8th, 1911, by one of his native collectors 

 from a M'lange Bulbul (Phyllostrojjhus viilanjensis). The head was 

 wanting, and there were symmetrical injuries at the anal angle of 

 the hind wings similar to those so often seen in living butterflies. 

 (2) Two wings of Precis archesia, Cr., 0, and the fragments of 

 a Blattid, probably of the genus Deropeltis, taken June 25th, 1911, 

 from a spider's web. Professor Poulton also exhibited specimens 

 sent by Mr. J. C. Moulton from Sarawak, showing instances of 

 mimicry, and read Mr. Moulton's account of them. Mr. C. J. 

 Gahan had described one new species of Daphisia (D. ehjtoides). — 

 Professor Poulton, six male examples of a remarkable Lyesenid, all 

 captured, November 22nd, 1910, in the Uhehe District (3000-3500 ft.) 

 of German East Africa, by Mr. S. A. Neave, F.E.S. The pattern and 

 brilliant colours, which were extraordinary in a Lycsenid, strongly 

 suggested on both upper and under surface the appearance, although 

 on a smaller scale, of an AcrcBa of the type of A. anemosa. — Mr. 

 Stanley Edwards, a specimen of Oxynop)tenis audouini, a beetle from 

 Borneo, with abnormal antennae, apparently gynandromorphous, and 

 explained that Mr. Gahan had dissected it and found the genitalia to 

 be entirely female. — Mr. H. C. Dollman, the following species of Coleo- 

 ptera : — Philonthus intermedins, Bois. ab. donisthorpei, Dollman, 

 described in the Ent. Eec, December, 1910 ; Stemis formicetorum, 

 Mann., introduced as British in the Ent. Eec, April, 1911 ; Bevi- 

 bidium qiiadnpusUdatum, Dj., an example from Ditchling, Sussex, 

 August 17th, 1911 ; Hypophlaus linearis, F. retaken at Oxshott, in 

 July of last year, a species hitherto taken in Great Britain 

 only in Surrey, at Oxshott and Woking ; Mycetoporus forticornis, 

 Fauv. (one specimen from the New Forest), wdth 31. clavicornis 

 Steph., for comparison; Philonthus corruscus, G., taken from a 

 dead rabbit at Ditchling ; Stenus viorio, Gr., from Ditchling, taken in 

 October, 1910. — Mr. H. Eltringham, a bred series of Acraa orestia, 

 Hew., containing the typical form and also the A. humilis of Miss E. M, 

 Sharpe, thus demonstrating the truth of the conclusion at which he 

 had previously arrived as to the specific identity of these two forms. 

 He also showed three male black and yellow Acrseas, one of which 

 was the A. circeis of Drury, from Sierra Leone. The other two, while 

 differing in appearanee from A. circeis, were themselves exactly 

 alike, but for the fact that the two tarsal claws of the second and third 

 pairs of feet were equal and similar in one specimen and unequal and 

 dissimilar in the other. A long and interesting discussion followed, 

 on the question of the importance of the tarsal claws as a means of 

 specific distinction, and on the possible correlation of uneven claws 

 in the male, and the abdominal sac in the female. — Mr. Champion 

 called attention to a paper by M. Eoger Verity, in the ' Bulletin de la 

 Soci^te Entomologique de France,' Stance du 11 Octobre, 1911, 

 on new Scottish races of Erebia cethiops, Esp. (race Caledonia), 

 Satyrus semele (race scota) and Pararge megara (race Caledonia). 

 The following papers were communicated:—" Descriptions of South 



