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lime, oak, and hoJly trees; nearer to the house is a hroad hedge of laurel, 

 rhododendron, and mahonia, br-ing the hedge of the flower garden. The flies 

 occur all through the house, but the large room is their special haunt, perhaps 

 because of the very large window and the south aspect, which causes it to get 

 all the autumn sunshine. We are not troubled with flies in the summer; 

 though, as I farm the glebe land and keep horses, cows, and pigs, there is 

 necessarily a quantity of manure about, tliey might be expected to abound. I 

 am far more bothered with flies on a warm summer's day in the fields than I ever 

 am in the house, though the windows are always open and the flies have free 

 ingress if they like. 



^ I think it is pretty evident that the flies entered the house for tlie purpose 

 of hibernating. — W. F. Johnson, Acton Glebe, Poyutzpass : January llth, 1916. 



Additional notes on Mr. J. C. Moulton's paper on Bornean Rhopalocera. — 

 The publication of my short criticism on Mr. Moulton's paper in the February 

 number of this magazine has brought me letters from several entomologists. 

 Mr. C. O. Treohmann has kindly giVen me a copy of Messrs. W. B. Pryer and 

 D. Cator's " Preliminary List of the Rhopalocera of Borneo " from the " British 

 North Borneo Herald," October 1st, 1894, which is neatly cut from the newspaper 

 and mounted in a book, by the late L. de Niceville, whose property it formerly 

 was. On looking through it I find that no less than 19 new species of butterflies 

 are described in its columns. Most of the descriptions are quite useless, and 

 consist only of the generic and specific names and the expanse of the wings. 

 When we come to the end of the list of the group Nymphalina we find a 

 note : " Owing to an unfortunate want of tj'pe the habitats of many of the above 

 are not given " ! I 



In the fam. Lycaenidae, No. 230, is descril)ed " Poritia dorothiana, n. sp. 

 Upper-side bright green with a broad black border. Exp. wings 27 mm. Hab. 

 Sandakan." Although the description is brief, I have not a shadow of a doubt 

 that it is the insect djscrib^d by m?, P. Z. S., 1895, p. .565, as the <? Cyaniriodes 

 lihna Hew., and referred to in P. Z. S., 1896, p. 653, pi. xxix, f. 3. 



When Mr. Cator lent me his specimen he did not mention that he 

 and Mr. Pryer had described it as a new species in 1894. When we come to the 

 end of the fam. Hesperiidae we read that " Owing to (jreat press of business* it is 

 regietted that the concluding portions of the above paper are little more than 

 a mere list of names, etc." ! ! 



Dr. D. Sharp has written me from Brockenhurst : In ' Zool. Rec.,' 1894, 

 p. 248, Pryer and Cator's list of Bornean butterflies is mentioned, but I did not 

 accept the new species. Bartlett's paper I think I mentioned under some other 

 name, but I don't see it in the ' Eecord.' The jjapers were sent to me with a 

 view to their being recognised, btit it appears to me very doiibtful whether an 

 appearance in such a medium amounts to publication. It appears to me that if 

 the practise is recognised as legitimate it is likely to extend, and as there is no 

 language limit it will not be possible to do the Record satisfactorilj'. Who is 

 to look through the daily papers of Peru and Patagonia, say ?" 



