2 [JvHie, 



Miiscidce are very sluggish in their movements, and are iiicapabk' of 

 flight. Four species are common. One of them is abundant on 

 Prinqlea, crawling over the leaves. When it is approached, it feigns 

 to be dead, and, tucking up its legs, drops down into the axils of the 

 leaves ; or, if it happens to be upon a plane surface, one need only look 

 at it closely, and it throws itself promptly upon its back and remains 

 motionless until the threatened danger is over, when it gradually ven- 

 tures to move its limbs and struggle to regain its footing. Its wings 

 are represented by minute gemmules, and it possesses halteres. The 

 ovij)ositor is extended, its apical joint alone being retracted. The 

 larva feeds upon decaying vegetable matter. Another species occurs 

 on dead birds and mammals, as well as beneath stones near the highest 

 tide-mark. It is completely destitute of even the vestiges of wings 

 and halteres. It and the preceding species are rather smooth. A 

 third species, slightly hairy, is common amongst tide-refuse and on the 

 adjacent rocks, which are coated with Enteromoiylia, on which plant, 

 inter alia, the larva feeds. It has very small triangular rudiments of 

 wings, slightly cmarginate near the apex of the costa, and possesses 

 halteres. The fourth species occurs amongst grass growing on the sea- 

 shore and also in Shag-rookeries. Its linear and very narrow wings 

 are almost as long as the abdomen. It can jump, but cannot fly. 



A Piilex is parasitic upon Halidroma, and one (possibly the 

 same) on DiomedeafuJiginosa. 



Coleoptera are not uncommon. The larger species seem to have 

 their elytra soldered together. There is a small species of the 

 Srachelytra. 



Several species of Ninnidw have been obtained. 



Two Podurce (one black, the other white) are plentiful. 



There appear to be few species of spiders, though individuals 

 are numei'ous. Penguins and some of the other birds ax*e infested 

 with ticks. The remaining Arachnida are related to Crihates. 



NOTES OX JAPANESE RHOPALOCEEA, WITH DESCEIPTION OF A 



NEW SPECIES. 



BT THE BKV. R. P. MURRAY, M.A. 



Since the publication, in December and January last, of my paper 

 on Japanese butterflies, I have become possessed of a little more 

 material, and venture to lay the following additional notes before the 

 readers of Ent. Mo. Mag. 



