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Malayan Islands have three species, the Austro-Malay and 

 Australian Islands two or three, two are natives of the United 

 States and the West Indies, and one is found in Surinam and 

 Brazil. " It does not seem improbable that these few and widely 

 scattered congeners are but the surviving members of what was 

 once a numerous and generally prevalent group " (Trimen). The 

 same opinion is expressed by the late Dr. Scudder, who mentions 

 the discovery of two fossil species in Colorado. The L. celtis feeds 

 on the nettle tree Celtis aiistralh, but will also eat cherry. 



AUGUST 2ith, 1911. 



Mr. J. Jager exhibited a few forms and aberrations of British 

 Lepidoptera, including the following species: — Ruinin'a phlcens with 

 the band on the hindwings replaced by wedge-shaped marks, from 

 St. Leonard's ; and Celastrina an/ioliis, several females showing 

 variety of colouring, one being very silvery in appearance, from 

 Starcross. 



Mr. S. R. Ashby, series of the Coleoptera JJalaninns nuctnii and 

 Phytodecta pallida, taken at the Society's Field meeting at Clandon 

 on July 15th. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited forms of Papilio podalirius, including 

 var. feisthaiiielii ab. ornata, and two forms bred from pupte given 

 him by Dr. Chapman, in which the black markings were blurred, 

 additional cloudy transverse markings were present and there was a 

 considerable sprinklmg of black scales scattered over the pale yellow 

 areas especially of the forewings. These latter forms were probably 

 to be considered as falling under ab. undecendineatns, from which 

 they differed in the ill-development of the eleven transverse lines, 

 bands, or fascia on the costa, and had in addition cloudy and 

 blurred markings. In the Berliner Entoinologische Zeits(dirift for 

 1902, p. (4), figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, were figs, showing somewhat similar 

 forms from the Harz Mountains in Germany, which locality was 

 possibly the origin of the forms exhibited. At pp. 119-133 (PL 

 II.) was an account with figures of various forms of a somewhat 

 similar character as well as an account of the variation of P. 

 podaliriiis as then (1902) worked out. This was by Oscar Schultz, 

 who, during the past fifteen years, has laboriously compiled an 

 annotated list of all gynandromorphs of Macro-Lepidoptera which 

 it has been possible to trace, and whose recent decease immediately 

 after sending his last contribution of the above work to the printers, 

 we have to deplore. 



