410 Transactions of the South African Philosophical Socvety. 
Karscu, FH. Neue harmoncopode Lepidopteren des Berliner Museums 
aus Afrika. Entomologische Nachrichten, 1898, pp. 330-336. 
Contains the description of a new genus and a new species of 
Agaristid moth, Mitrophrys meraca, from South-West Africa. 
Mapsiute, P. Lepidoptera nova malgassica et africana. Annales 
Société Entomologique de France, 1900, vol. 68, pp. 723-753. 
Contains short diagnoses of two South African Insects: 
Phalera ligntea and Macroplectra tripwnctata. 
Masinte, P. Description de Lepidoptéres nouveaux. Annales 
Société Entomologique de France, vol. 66, 1898, pp. 182-231. 
Contains the description of 2 South African species. 
Marsyatu, G. A. K. On the Synonymy of the Butterflies of the 
Genus Teracolus. Proceedings Zoological Society, 1897, 
pp. 3-36. 
The author does not see any necessity for naming seasonal 
forms, not more than for the naming of sexual ones, and 
suggests the adoption of three standard signs or letters to signify 
wet, dry, and intermediate forms respectively. 
MarsHaty, G. A. K. Seasonal Dimorphism in Butterflies of the 
Genus Precis. Doubled. Annals and Mag. Natur. Hist., vol. 2, 
7th series, No. 7, July, 1898, pp. 30-40. 
Two years before this the author recorded his conviction 
(Trans. Ent. Soc., 1896) that seasonal dimorphism of a 
singularly marked character existed among certain African 
species of the genus Precis. He has at last, and after not a few 
disappointments, succeeded in breeding typical Precis sesamus 
Trim. from eggs laid by three separate females of P. octavia 
subsp. natalensis. Staud., ‘thereby establishing beyond doubt 
what is certainly the most remarkable instance of seasonal 
variation as yet known among the Lepidoptera.” 
One of his pup, however, produced, curiously enough, a 
pure P. natalensis. The colouring of the larva, judging by the 
few examples examined, is not affected by season, but the pupa 
presents two forms of colouration. During the moist summer 
