240 THE entomologist's record. 



showers at the time avaih\ble prevented a repetition of my visit, and it 

 Avas not until the day before my departure that I could go again. The- 

 field round the fort attracted ni}" attention, and the first thing that 

 I saw was another net on the road in front of the fort. The notice 

 lioards forbidding entrance within the charmed circle were an awful 

 nuisance, as the insects, probably knowing my inability to go there, all 

 retired within this area. It was a nuisance, but first one insect and 

 then another tempted me, until I got well up to the fort. One or two 

 of the officers came and looked at me, appeared to vote me a harmless 

 lunatic and went away, and I began to think that these boards were 

 of the same value as those denoting that " Trespassers will be 

 prosecuted " in England. However, I was soon undeceived, for 

 presently a private soldier, evidently in a towering passion, came up 

 and bullied me most dreadfully. Whether it was due to my natural 

 disposition to allow myself to 1)0 Itullied without saying anything, or 

 to the fact tliat I didn't understand above one-tenth of what he said, I 

 do not know, Ijut I smiled sweetl}^ at him and proposed staying where 

 I was, but it was of no use, and he very firmly but politely saw me 

 outside that ring of notice boards, and going back carefully inspected 

 the ground I had affected, and he was still on his knees at the liusiness 

 when I disappeared out of sight, to the El Dorado I had discovered 

 the week before. On my way, however, the weather became dull, and 

 the sun-loving species which I had noticed in such profusion a few 

 days before were only in small numbers. However, two or three hours 

 sufficed to get together a representative lot of specimens from this 

 localit3^ The species which I determined by actually catching speci- 

 mens were as follows : — Colias hyale, Coenonyrnpha pamphilus, Vanessa 

 atdlanta, Pieris rapce, P. hrassicce, MeJanargia gahitea, Lyccena corydon, L. 

 icarus, Lasiommata megcera, Cuspidia ]>si, C. aceris, Acontia albicollis,. 

 A. hictnosa, Ench'd/a glyphica, Agrophila snlphuraUs, Miana hicoloria, 

 Li/thria pmrpuraria, Strenia clathrafa. Ematnrga atomaria, Acidalia 

 rnbricata, EuhoJia hipnnctata, Cramhus cuJmeUus, Pterophorus monodadyla, 

 Ortliotaniia utriana, Pioncea forficalis, Spilodes sticticalis, Herhida cespitalis,. 

 Scojmla ferrngalis and Stigmonota composana. 



The great surprise w^as the absence of Tortrices and Tineina. 

 There were absolutely none of the latter, and I only got an odd speci- 

 men each of Stigmonota composana and Orthoiienia striana among the 

 former. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES & OBSERVATIONS. 



Sensibility of larv.e to Sound. — A few days ago I was standing 

 in my larvae room, and while calling to my lirother, who was outside 

 in the garden, I noticed that some 3'oung Bomhyx qiiercus larva? in a 

 cage close by were making very peculiar movements. Thinking that 

 it Avas pei'haps my voice which Avas affecting them, I went nearer and 

 shouted as loudly as possible, when they all were at once thrown into 

 great commotion, holding on to the stems and leaves of the bramble, 

 on which they were feeding, by their hind claspers, and jerking their 

 heads and bodies about in much the same Avay as many of the Geometer- 

 caterpillars do when disturbed. I shouted again twice, and each time 

 I stopped they became rpiiot. After I had repeated the noise about a 



