1886.] ON RHIPIDORNIS GULIELMI-TERTII. 297 



Moths burrow into the soil to a depth of 2 or 3 inches, and there they 

 remain, some for six months, some for ten. The way in which I 

 manage is this : first I search in due season for the caterpillars, which 

 having found I remove to bushes and trees as near my residence as 

 possible. I then watch them carefully day by day, until I consider 

 them large enough to remove into my breeding-cages, all of which 

 have at least six inches of good soil at the bottom. When full-fed 

 they burrow, as I have said before, and exactly six weeks after the 

 disappearance of the last one, I dig up all the pupte and lay them care- 

 fully side by side upon moss which is from time to time moistened.' 

 " I may add I received last year pupa) of the following species from 

 this source, all of which hatched out well with the exception of six or 

 eight : — 



Cyanissa maia. 



JBunea cajfraria. 



Antherea tyrrhea, 



menippe. 



■ • loahlbergii. 



Cirina forda. 



" The pupae which I now exhibit will, I think, by their general 

 appearance, bear out the statement of my correspondent." 



Mr. Joseph Whitaker, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of "Wilson's 

 Phalarope, Steganopus wilsoni (Sabine), believed to have been shot 

 some years ago at Sutton Ambion, near Market Bosworth in 

 Leicestershire. Mr. Whitaker had found the bird stuffed in a case of 

 local species of birds which had belonged to a Mr. Richard Bradfield, 

 who stated that he shot the specimen in question on a small pond, 

 into which the manure ran from his farm-yard, and the breast of the 

 bird showed a stain which might have been so produced. The owner 

 was quite unaware of the rarity of the species, looking upon it merely 

 as a curiosity ; and unless there should have been some accidental 

 exchange at the bird-stuffer's, the evidence as to its genuineness 

 seemed entitled to credence. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On a fourtli Male Specimen of King William the Third's 

 Paradise-bird. By A. B. Meyer, M.D., Director Royal 

 Zoological Museum of Dresden, C.M.Z.S., &c. 



[Eeceivecl April 28, 1886.] 



In the year 18/5 I described and figured (Mitth. Zool. Mus. 

 Dresden, i. p. 3, pi. i.) lihipidornis guliehni-tertii, after a male 

 and female specimen forwarded to me by my friend the late S. C. 

 S. W. van Musschenbroek from Ternate, and a short time after- 

 wards Gould figured a second male specimen (' Birds of New 



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