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new locality on the borders of Cambridgeshire and Suffolk; also a drawing 
of the larva of this species, received from Mr. Brown, of Cambridge. The 
drawing represented the larva as feeding on some species of grass appa- 
rently belonging to the genus Festuca, though, according to Mr. Buckler, 
the larva feeds on some species of Poa. 
Mr. R. M‘Lachlan said it would be interesting to British entomologists 
to know that Tapinostola Bondii, Knaggs, had occurred on the island of 
Rigen in the Baltic (Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlv. 482); it was only known 
previously from Central Greece and Britain. 
Mr. W. F. Kirby alluded to Noctua subrosea, Steph., as another British 
moth with very limited distribution (Britain, Livonia, Finland). 
Mr. J. Jenner Weir, on behalf of Mr. E. Lovett who was present as a 
visitor, exhibited a collection of Micro-Lepidoptera from the neighbourhood 
of Grahamstown, Cape Colony, and made some remarks on their great 
resemblance to British species. They were collected by Mr. H. F. Billing- 
hurst. 
Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited specimens of Aculeate Hymenoptera captured 
at Chobham during the past season; also Ichneumonide, &c., collected in 
various localities during 1884. 
Mr. H. J. 8. Pryer contributed a paper ‘“‘ On two remarkable cases of 
mimicry from Elopura, British North Borneo, with remarks on Mr. George 
Lewis’ paper read before the Society on 4th October, 1882.” The cases of 
mimicry referred to was that of a large coleopteron (Nothopeus fasciati- 
pennis, n.s., C. O. Waterhouse) mimicing an equally large hymenopteron 
(Mygnimia aviculus, Sauss.), and of a large lepidopteron (Scoliomima, n.g., 
Butler, insignis, n.s., Butler) mimicing a large hymenopteron (Tiscolia 
patricialis, Burm.). 
Mr. A. G. Butler made some remarks upon the very interesting cases 
of mimicry alluded to, and contributed a description of the moth, for which 
he formed a new genus of Ageriid@, coming next to the African genus 
Toosa (= Ninia). He also referred to the remarkable mimetic resemblance 
between the two species of Myrmecopsis, Newman, with their distinctly 
petiolated abdomen, and species of Polybia or Agenia. Mr. Butler said it 
was both interesting and curious to find that in India the female Argynnis 
Niphe, Linn., mimics Danais Chrysippus, Stoll: while in Australia the 
sexes of the representative of A. Niphe (A. inconstans, Butl.) are similar, 
the Australian Danais being so small that it is not worth mimicing. The 
well-known case of Papilio Merope, Cram., was also interesting: further- 
more, that the Catocaling were directly opposed to Mr. Lewis’ views, since 
the upper surface of the hind wings, which are least exposed to the action 
of the sun’s rays, are the most brilliantly coloured portion of these insects. 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse remarked upon and exhibited specimens of the 
following two cases of mimicry: a species of Myocoris (Hemiptera) and a 
