The presence of Δ2-3 somatic transposase to Muller5-B X chromosome carrying five target P-elements causes pupal lethality, with or without heat shock P{S-NP2} can repress some of the lethality. Combination of P{S-NP2} and P{A-NP2} can repress pupal lethality, repression is induced or enhanced by heat shock. Combination of P{S-NP2} and P{S-UP1} can repress pupal lethality slightly better than the single construct. P{S-NP2} cannot repress snw mutability in the male germline or the somatic instability of snw (males have patches of weak sn, extreme sn and wild-type bristles) with or without heat shock. P{S-NP2} has no effect on the expression of the Ecol\lacZ gene of P{lacZ}snunspecified or P{lacZ}vasunspecified.