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of the bed-bug {Clmex lectalarins) in the Paddington Infirmary last 

 autumn, he had obtained ten ova in October, which, enclosed between 

 two watch glasses, had hatched in eight or nine days. The young were 

 sealed up without food on October 25th, and had remained alive for 

 a considerable time, the last survivor only died on January 2nd. 

 It was interesting to know that this pest had the power, even in 

 extreme youth, of going without food for a lengthy period until a 

 more favourable opportunity afforded means of obtaining it. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited a collection of Rhopalocera sent to him 

 from the inland area of Borneo, and contributed the following 

 notes on butterflies from Karang, B. N. Borneo : — " It rains 

 every other day at Karang, situated between the Labuk and 

 Kinabatangan rivers; it is really the watershed, and that part is 

 wet even for Borneo. Preserving specimens there is more diflicult 

 than collecting them, and unless they are caught just before post 

 day, they are apt to be rotten before the next mail leaves. That at 

 any rate was the fate of the first lot intended for me. Daring the 

 thirty years I have been receiving insects from all quarters 

 of the world, I have seen many strange ways of sending 

 them. Leaves' from Bibles are not an uncommon wrapping 

 for insects from Africa, but this is the first time I have 

 know^n anyone to cut up his shirt for the purpose — my friend 

 thinking the flannel would absorb the moisture. The plan 

 answered, and the only daiiiage done to the specimens may be 

 attributed to the clumsy hands of the Customs Officer. Some of 

 the butterflies are interesting, not for their rarity, but as local races 

 of well-known and widely distributed forms, and all as coming from 

 a very wet and out-of-the-way locality. Perhaps the best is the form 

 of Fapilio ecemon, which lacks several of the green discal streaks on 

 the upper surface of the forewings, and the red spot on the costa of 

 the hind wings beneath : recently described by Dr. Jordan as a 

 new sub-species. Then there is I'apiUo Itanipati, the Bornean race 

 of the continental F. antiphates,- with its extended yellow area on 

 the hindwings beneath. Amongst the Piend(P is Terias i/radiens — 

 rabel, the local race of Terias tila/ia. Of the Linmiincc, the race rtr^o 

 of Hestia ioijani is the only one of note, but amongst a fairly long 

 series of Datiisepa lowii, one of the Kaphriiw, is a solitary female, 

 which lacks the purple lustre of the male. Of the Xyniphalincc 

 there are species of Cethosia, Terinos, Parthenos, Neptis, Lupha, 

 Cirrhochroa and Charaxes, all well known from Borneo, which do 

 not call for any special reference — common, if you will, but none 

 the less acceptable." 



