NOTES ON LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY JAMES BEHREXS. 



On a trip to Gilroy Springs in 1862, I caught on April 5th more 

 than a dozen specimens of that most charming butterfly, Lycmia 

 regia. W. H. Edwards congratulated me on the capture, as it was 

 the northermost station from which it had been reported. Remem- 

 bering the circumstance, I felt prompted in 1887 to revisit the spot 

 in hopes of a new catch. I reached the place near the end of 

 March, found it cold, dreary and rainy, and such weather continued 

 for the whole^ month of April. Patient waiting for nearly two weeks 

 brought me, in a few rays of sunshine, at intervals, six specimens, 

 and I felt greatly pleased that after twenty-five years I should find 

 the beautiful insects at the same old spot to welcome me, and give 

 them fame in a museum box instead of leaving them a prey to birds 

 or " devil's darning needles," or decay under fallen leaves. 



I described the exact spot later to C. F. McGlashan, of Truckce 

 and believe that in April he, favored by fine weather, made a 

 remarkable haul. 



In the western part of Siskiyou County, near the Sacramento 

 Kiver, while crossmg a field at 9 o'clock in the morning, I found 

 hundreds of Papihos feeding upon wet sand. A slap of my net 

 brought me only seven specimens, though I had expected twenty 



the others circled away without returning, and I sought them in 

 vain the next morning at the same spot. My catch proved to be 

 Indra Ruiulus, Enrymcdon, ZoHcaon and Daunus~^x^ species 

 the whole list of our California Papilios, except the common Phi 

 tenor, which does not occur there. 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



ZOOLOGY 



In the April number of the Auk, Mr. Frank Bolles contributes a 

 engthy and exceedingly interesting study of "Barred Owls in Cap- 



rellln t ^ .>'^""8 *^'^^^ -^'"^ ^^ken from the nest and studied in 

 relation to their habits, choice of food, and especially the effect 



D t owl wo. n 1 ■ ^" " "'^"'^ '"" ^ "^^'^^ b'-^ -"-tor such a 



no Zl si h. "r k"^"'"^' '""^"''^' ^° ^'' 2-"^^ tl- ^tudy and 

 not the slaughter of birds seems to have been his incentive In the 



