fully examined for all doubtful V marks, which usually indicate a 

 resting moth. In some localities it is said to be possible to capture 

 more than a dozen species of this genus in one day's ramble. This 

 must be exciting. I have seen a record from New York State 

 announcing 39 species in one season's collecting in the writer's 

 neighbourhood. 



" Coming to our latest authority, Hampson, in ' Cat. Lep. Phal. 

 Brit. Mus., NoctnhUr,' (1913), we find that he includes 199 species 

 in the list of the whole world and that he adopts two other genera 

 which have been made from the original Catocala, viz., Euparthenos, 

 Grote, with one species and Catahaiita, Hulst, with 22 species. A 

 number of species with blackish brown underwings are included in 

 the latter genus. Figures (coloured) of many American species can 

 be seen in Holland's ' Moth Book,' a copy of which is in our 

 Library. 



*' A writer in the ' Ent. News ' (U.S.A.), states that he has found 

 C. conctiwhens, a species of which I exhibit several specimens, to be 

 addicted to settling on telegraph posts in numbers, and on one 

 occasion he took no less than ten specimens from one pole. He 

 makes the curious observation that when a lot of new poles were 

 put up beside old ones, the moths never on any occasion were to be 

 found on the newer lighter coloured poles where they would have 

 been easily seen. The writer calls this a selective faculty on the 

 part of the insect, but may it not be that before the more or less 

 sporadic visits of the entomologist, who was not as keen as the 

 avian hunters for their meals, all such conspicuously situated 

 moths had been thoroughly removed by force. In a subsequent 

 year the same writer found that when the new poles were weather- 

 worn the moths rested on them as they did on the old original 

 poles, and were equally protected by their resemblance." 



In the discussion which ensued Mr. Frohawk remarked that near 

 the Zoological Gardens, Eegent's Park, several supposed C. nnpta 

 were noticed on trunks of trees, and a pin was thrust through the 

 thorax of what was considered the finest specimen. On examina- 

 tion it was found to be an example of C. fraxini. He also referred 

 to an example of C. nnpta captured by the late Mr. Winkley in 

 1892, in which the usual red colour of the hindwings was replaced 

 by a very delicate warm brown, while a purplish glow covered the 

 whole surface of the wings. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs recalled an instance in which C. nnj/ta had 



