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night ; the showers frequently mixed with hail and snow. Tempera- 

 ture during the last week has varied from 49°F. down to 31°F., but only 

 one frost in that time. Last night a gale blew from the south-west 

 accompanied by a good deal of rain ; the wind increased in force after 

 dawn, and at mid-day was blowing violently, but towards evening- 

 moderated considerably. The sun shone brightly during the day, but 

 was frequently obscured by the scurrying clouds. In the morning, 

 the butterfly was clinging under a leaf, and was being much blown 

 about, and later in the day was evidently forced by the high wind to 

 seek a steadier foothold, for, in the afternoon, I found it holding on by 

 all three pairs of legs to the woody stem below the green shoot. 



February 20th. — The weather on the 18th was very unsettled, and 

 several heavy showers fell during the day. The wind, which had 

 fallen since the day before, rose again in the night, and another 

 terrific gale raged the whole of next day (February 19th), but decreased 

 slightly during the night, and blew with moderate strength until 9.30 

 this morning when it again became violent. The gale continued, with 

 rain from 11.30 a.m. until nearly 3 p.m., when there was a tremendous 

 hailstorm, during which there was a single flash of lightning and a 

 peal of thunder, after which the weather improved and the sun 

 appeared. During the last three days the butterfly has been using all 

 its legs to hold on with. This morning at 8.30, while only a 

 moderately strong wind was blowing, it was again resting the front 

 pair, but two hours later, after the wind had increased in force, it was 

 using one of the front pair as well, the one on the windward side. I 

 had another look at it after the hailstorm, and found it had forsaken 

 its old twig for another immediately below to which it was hanging 

 with all six legs under the shelter of a shoot of sprouting leaves. 



February 22nd. — Yesterday was a lovely sunny day after another 

 boisterous night. The temperature during the day varied from 48^F. 

 down to 39'^F. The butterfly was at 11.30 yesterday morning still 

 where it had taken refuge from the fury of the storm the day before, 

 and, as I noticed then, using all its legs. This was the last I saw of 

 it, for, unfortunately, I was away from home the rest of the day and 

 did not return until after dark. This morning at 8.30 I found the 

 butterfly gone ; so my observations have come to an end without my 

 bavins the satisfaction of knowing what has become of it. 



Jubilee of the Russian Entomological Society. 



The Entomological Society of Kussia, one of the oldest scientific 

 bodies in the empire, celebrated its jubilee on February 26th (Old 

 Style) ■= March 11th (New Style), in the Ministry of Agriculture at 

 St. Petersburg, in the presence of a numerous and distinguished 

 company. 



The chair was taken by the venerable president, Petr Petrovich 

 Semenoff-Tian-Shansky, the eminent explorer and traveller in Central 

 Asia, discoverer of the mighty mountains of Tiaii-Shan, president 

 also of the Russian Imperial Geographical Society, and member of the 

 Imperial State Council. There were also present Mr. Kozloft", another 

 distinguished explorer in Central Asia, Colonel G. V. Kakhovsky, an 

 enthusiastic coleopterist who has made important collections in 

 Abyssinia, Professors Rimsky-Korsakoft', Inostranstseft", and Shim- 



