IG THE ENTOMOLOGISTS RECORD. 



ground colour on underside is distinctly grey. Tbe blue on upperside 

 is rather dark. After reading Kane, I think it is really a^iandtis^ 

 although there are only the slightest traces of peacock eyes. Spots 

 are very round and ringed — the discoidal spots are cuned, not anijnlar 

 as in Lang and Kane, Mine differs a little from one you gave me, 

 the rays are less clear. 



" I have recovered my 9th flavofasciata. It is a damaged 2 , but 

 as a ? is valuable." 



N.B. — With reference to localities iovorion, it may be of interest to 

 mention here that I found it at Charpigny on June 2nd this summer 

 (1914). I wondered whether Mr. Fison had tried to introduce it by 

 bringing larvfe from the Southern Alps. However, Mr. Wheeler tells 

 me he does not think my uncle " deliberately brought orion larvae to 

 Charpigny. He may possibly have brought ova in plants of Sedum 

 from Branson, or more probably from south of the Alps .... 

 Charpigny is quite ideal for nn'Du, and it might get there from Branson 

 as easily as aniaiidus from Vernayaz. — L.M.F. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Resting Attitude of the Lyc.enid.e. — Mr. F. W. Frohawk has 

 recently called attention to the fact that the sleeping attitude of the 

 Li/caenidae is with the head upwards, and that although they take up 

 their position in the early evening with head downward, they turn 

 round on the approach of darkness. It is suggested that in the pre- 

 liminary position the butterfly is safer from a fatal attack by birds, 

 while when no necessity for such position arises, as in the dark, the 

 natural position is assumed. 



J2*^0TES ON COLLECTING, Etc. 



Myrmecophilous Arthropoda from Algeria. — I give below a list 

 of Arthropoda taken in ants' nests in Algeria''' in April, 1913. The 

 phenomenon of myrmecophily is so interesting, and has been so little 

 studied in most parts of the world, that, though a hurried visit prevents 

 the possibility of making biological observations on ant guests, yet this 

 bare list is perhaps worth publishing. At Hammam Meskoutine the 

 bristle-tail Lepis^na nasinanni, Moniez, was found in a nest of Mi/niie- 

 cocijsfKs viatieits in the hard clay of a pathway. A nest of Tapinoma 

 erraticuni harboured an Aphid which Prof. Theobald has described as 

 new under the name Forda rotunda. A week later we found a num- 

 ber of myrmecophilous creatures at Lambese, in the region of the high 

 and arid plateau. Nests of Pheidole palliditla were tenanted by a new 

 genus and species of Aphid {Eectinasits biia-toni,i Theobald). In one 

 case such an ants' nest was found under the same stone as a colony of 

 the " white ant," Leucoter)tie» Incifiiiins. This was, however, apparently 

 not a case of association, but rather due to accident. The Aphid in 

 question was often extremely abundant ; several hundred might be 

 seen covering any rootlet which happened to cross the cavities within 

 the nest. The same species of Aphid was also found in a nest of 



* Ent. Rec, xxvi., p. 63, "Notes on Tunisian and Algerian Insects." 

 ^ Kntom., xlvii., p. 28, 2 figs., "Two new Myrmecophilous Aphides from 

 Algeria." 



