46 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
—Prof. Poulton gave an account, written by Dr. Carpenter, of the 
life-history of P. hesperus, from a specimen reared from an egg laid by 
a female hesperus on Kome Island, N.W. Victoria Nyanza. 
Prof. Poulton also brought forward some observations recorded by 
Mrs. D. R. Fyson, on the proportions of the female forms of Papilio 
polytes, L., in the neighbourhood of Madras city. 
A Mantis anp Enrozoon.—Mr. HE. E. Green exhibited a specimen of 
: Mantis from Ceylon, together with a Gordius worm that had emerged 
rom it. 
A REDISCOVERED British Coccr.—Mr. Green also exhibited speci- 
mens of the Coccid Gossyparia ulmi, Geoff. (or spuria of Modeer— 
according to the American authorities), collected by Mr. J. C. F. Fryer, 
on a Cornish elm at Farnham, Surrey. 
Some British Lycmnips.—The Rey. G. Wheeler exhibited some 
British Lycwenids, taken in July and early August this year :—(1) 
Polyommatus icarus, Rott., from the Durham coast, remarkable for 
their large size and the brilliant tint of the 7 g. (2) Plebetus aegon 
var. masseyt, Tutt, the form from the northern mosses, the g g bright 
blue, with very narrow black border and conspicuous black marginal 
spots on the hindwing, the ? ? strongly suffused with blue. (3) Aricia 
medon, Hufn., from the Durham coast, including almost typical speci- 
mens, also var. salmacis, as described by Stephens, the ¢ with a black 
discoidal spot on the upperside of the forewing, the @ with a white 
one; ab. simélis, Tutt, ab. albiannulata, Harr., ab. vedrae, Harr., with 
its extreme form ab. obsoleta, Obth., ab. semivedrae, Harr., and ab. 
inclara, Harr. To these were added a few var. artaverxes, F., from 
Kinghorn. 
A GynanpRomorPHous Ant.—Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited two re- 
markable mixed gynandromorphs of Myrmica scabrinodis taken in the 
same colony at Weybridge, July 30th, 1915. 
Miuicry or Nycuirona mepusa, Borsp., sy LeucERONIA THALASSINA, 
BotsD., EXTENDING TO HABITS AND FLIGHT.—Dr. F. A. Dixey exhibited 
specimens of Nychitona and Leuceronia, remarking on their resem- 
blance in habits and flight. 
A FIVE-sporTED ZyGHNA FILIPENDULZ.—Mr. R. Adkin exhibited 
a 5-spotted specimen of Zygaena filipendulae, from a field at the top 
of the Downs near Otford, Kent. 
A new British Capsiy.—Mr. E. A. Butler exhibited a specimen of 
Brachyarthrum limitatum, Fieb.,a Capsid new to the British list, taken 
in Kpping Forest, July 3rd, 1915, on aspen. 
A teratotocicaL Beette.—Mr. Butler also exhibited a specimen of 
Timarcha violaceo-nigra, De G., with the left intermediate leg furnished 
with two tarsi, placed upon a much-broadened tibia. 
November 3rd.—Messrs. H. C. Tytler, Vacoas, Mauritius, and Alfred 
F. Winn, 82, Sprinefield Avenue, Westmount, Montreal, Canada, were 
elected Fellows of the Society. 
AN UNRECOGNISED Ack#A.—Mr. 8. A. Neave exhibited a remarkable 
and unrecognised species of Acraca, which was described and figured by 
Lathy, in the Transactions of the Society for 1903, as a Lycaenid, and 
placed in the genus Telipna. The name for this species will therefore 
stand as Acraea actinota, Lathy. 
Scymnus arcuatus.—Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a series of the beetle 
