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latter. He was, therefore, inclined to suppose that favicolor is a 

 salt-marsh development of liallens. — Mr. Donisthorpe, a specimen of 

 Eryx fairmairei, Eeiche, a species of Coleoptera new to Britain, 

 taken by him in Sherwood Forest, on July 11th, 1908. He also 

 showed a French specimen of the same species, and examples of Eryx 

 atra, F., the other known British species, for comparison. — Mr. W. G. 

 Sheldon, a collection of Ehopalocera made by him in Jemtland and 

 Swedish Lapland, in June and July, 1911. — Mr. Henry J. Turner, a 

 large number of specimens of Liiperina nickerlii, of which the British 

 form or race has been hitherto known as Luperina gueneei, together 

 with series of other races from the Continent. Mr. Turner also 

 exhibited a long series of Erebia (Bthiops from many Continental 

 localities and also from Aviemore, Scotland. He made the exhibit at 

 the suggestion of Dr. Chapman, with reference to an article in the 

 Bull. Soc. Ent. France, No. 51 , 1911, by M. Koger Verity, in which the 

 Scotch (Galashiels) race of this species was named var. Caledonia. — 

 Prof. Poulton, a series of specimens tending to refute the view, again 

 recently advanced, that changes of colour and pattern in allied forms 

 are due to climate, and especially to moisture. Also a set of the 

 mimetic Pseudacraeas and their models, collected by Mr. C. A. 

 Wiggins, in the neighbourhood of Entebbe, which contrasted re- 

 markably with a set of seventeen Pseudacraeas collected by Dr. 

 G. D. H. Carpenter on Damba Island, on the equator, in the Victoria 

 Nyanza, about twenty miles south-east of Entebbe. Also four males 

 and one female of Planema alcinoe, captured iVugust 10th, 1911, in 

 the forest, one mile east of Omi, near Lagos, by Mr. W. A. Lamborn, 

 "in a confused mass." Prof. Poulton also exhibited the cocoon of 

 Norasuma kolga, together with the moth which had emerged from it. 

 The compact cocoon itself was reddish, with an outer imperfect cover- 

 ing of yellow silk. In some cocoons, including the one exhibited, 

 the silk of this loose and open network formed dense little masses here 

 and there which, being bright yellow in colour, much resembled the 

 cocoons of Braconid parasites. He said that he had been shown by 

 Mr. J. H. Durrant similar spherical bodies scattered over the cocoon 

 of the Tineid moth, Marmara salictella. He also exhibited five 

 specimens of Amauris psyttalea, Plotz, being all that Mr. W. A. 

 Lamborn " obtained from twenty-five pupae, the rest being parasi- 

 tized by Tachinidifi." Seventeen dead pupae from the same company, 

 twelve of the Tachinid flies, and a number of their puparia were also 

 exhibited. He also exhibited specimens and gave an account of 

 observations sent by Mr. Lamborn, which threw further light on the 

 letter written January, 1891, by the Rev. A. C. Good, Ph.D., from 

 "West Africa, from which Dr. W. J. Holland had inferred that the 

 larvae of S. lemolea are aphidivorous ; extracts from Mr. Lamborn's 

 letters, together with an investigation of his material, indicate that 

 their food consists of Coccidae. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, a drawer full of Synto- 

 midae that had been collected by himself in South Brazil, in the early 

 part of 1910. The following papers were read: — " On the Nictitans 

 Group of the Genus Hydroecia, Gn.," by the Rev. C. R. N. Burrows. 

 " On the Dates of the PubHcations of the Entomological Society," 

 by the Rev. G. Wheeler, M.A., F.Z.S.— Geoege Wheeler, M.A., 

 Hon. Secretary. 



