The Zoologist— June, 1871. 264D 



Mr. Meek exhibited the example of Nyssia lapponaria (male) of Boisduval, 

 recorded in the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' vol. vii. p. 282, as 

 having been recently taken by Mr. Warrington at Rannoch, Perthshire, 

 new to the British Fauna. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited a collection of varieties of British Lepidoptera, 

 obtained by Mr, Briggs from an old collection formed in the time of 

 Haworth. Among them were singular forms of Lycsena dispar, Leucophasia 

 sinapis, Lithosia helveola, &c. 



The Rev. R. P. Murray exhibited a series of Lepidoptera captured in 

 Switzerland, including an example of Lycaena Euridice (said by Staudinger 

 to be a form of Hippothoe), in which the spots of the under side formed 

 long streaks. 



Mr. Bicknell (on behalf of Mr. Cowan, who was present as a visitor) 

 exhibited an extraordinary specimen of Gouepteryx rhamni, captured by 

 Mr. Cowan at Beckenham, in March, 1870. This example was a male of 

 the ordinary form, but the costal margin of each anterior wing was broadly, 

 but unequally, suffused with bright rose-colour or scarlet, and the right 

 posterior wing was marked in a like manner. 



Mr. M'Lachlau suggested that possibly the wings of the insect had come 

 in contact with some substance during hybernation, which had chemically 

 altered the coloration. 



Mr. Janson said he had noticed that yellow insects killed by cyanide of 

 potassium became red. 



Mr. Cowan said the individual exhibited had been killed by chloroform, 

 and moreover it was in precisely the same condition when captured. 

 Mr. Bicknell also exhibited varieties of other British Lepidoptera. 

 Mr. Stainton exhibited beautifully-executed coloured figures of the mines 

 of various Micro-Lepidoptera, collected at Santa Marta, by Baron Von 

 Nolcken, who had proceeded upon an entomological expedition to New 

 Granada. 



Mr. Champion exhibited Scydmsenus rufus, Mull. S Kunze, a beetle new 

 to the British list, recently captured by him in Richmond Park, as recorded 

 in the ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine,' vol. vii. p. 273. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited a tusk of an Indian elephant, placed in his 

 hands by Dr. Sclater, accompanied by the following explanatory note, 

 extracted from the Report of a recent meeting of the Zoological Society : — 

 " Mr. Sclater exhibited a pair of tusks of a female Indian elephant 

 [Elephas indicus), which presented the appearance of having been corroded 

 or eaten away in the basal portion, immediately adjacent to the end pro- 

 jecting from the gums. Just below this, on the outer side of each tusk, was 

 deposited a mass of egg-like bodies arranged in regular series, ajjparently of 

 some dipterous insect, and somewhat resembling those of the common blow- 

 fly [Musca vomitoria). These tusks had been submitted to Mr. Bartlett for 



