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feed on the aphides, disposing of them rapidly, then licking and cleaning 

 their appendages just as a mantis does. They pick and choose amongst 

 them, moving their heads op and down over the backs of the insects, 

 evidently smelling them. When not feeding, the larvae rest amongst 

 the aphides or crawl leisurely about, between or over them, and the 

 aphides do likewise, the larvae being sometimes covered with them. The 

 eggs of the butterfly, too, are often hidden under a mass of aphides. 



Butterfly Destroyers in Southern China.* — J. Kershaw reviews the 

 factors in the elimination of butterflies by other animals as he has 

 observed them in Southern China. The list of foes includes spiders, 

 flies, ants, bugs, centipedes, lizards, and birds. His notes suggest that 

 butterflies which have escaped the sundry and manifold dangers of the 

 egg, larva and pupa stages, have collectively comparatively little to fear 

 in the perfect state. 



Notes of Butterflies from India and Ceylon. f — G-. B. Longstaff 

 gives an extremely interesting account of a collection of butterflies 

 made by himself during a six months' journey in India and Ceylon. 

 During this time he took nearly 1700 specimens, of which 1500 were 

 butterflies belonging to 204 species. To these are to be added from 

 China, Japan, and Canada, 500 more specimens and 64 additional 

 species of butterflies, to which incidental allusion is made in the paper. 

 AH of these which are worth preserving will be placed in the Hope 

 Collection at Oxford. The notes include (1) references to locality ; 

 (2) altitude ; (3) habitat ; (4) habits, such as the sideways attitude or 

 " list " when at rest, of several species ; (5) injuries by enemies ; (6) 

 scents ; (7) seasonal forms. The paper is rich in bionomic data. 



Male Genital Apparatus in Bubalidas.J — Enoch Zander has made 

 a precise analysis of the male genital apparatus in this family of Micro- 

 lepidoptera, describing the differences in various species, and correcting 

 the erroneous interpretations given by Hofmann and by Stitz. 



Notes on Coleoptera.§ — D. Sharp has revised the genus Crioce- 

 phalus with the following results. C. syriacus Reitt is made a separate 

 genus, Gephalocrius ; a second new genus, Gephalallus, is established, 

 which is closely allied to both Megasemum and Crioceplialus. The four 

 genera in question form a natural group to be called Criocephaliuse. 

 These should be placed at the beginning of the sub-family Cerambycides, 

 as being one of the most primitive forms of Longicorn Coleoptera. It 

 differs but little from Coleoptera of other families ; it lacks all the 

 specialisations that are so remarkable in other divisions of Longicorns. 

 while but little changes would suffice to make it a member of other 

 divisions, either of Cerambycides or of Prionides. 



To this paper is added an interesting note on the habits of Asemum 

 striatum and Crioceplialus ferus by F. G-. Smith. These burrow in the 

 stems of Pinus sylvestris, the former in dead or enfeebled wood, and the 

 latter in large trees that are standing and growing. 



; Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond., 1905, pp. 5-8. + Tom. cit., pp. 01-144. 



J Zeitschr. wiss. Zool., lxxix. (1905) pp. 308-23 (13 figs.). 

 § Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond., 1905. pp. 145-76 (1 plj. 



