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were emitted per minute. I held the leaf for about five minutes — as nearly so as I 

 could reckon — and at the end of that time there was caught in it about a salt-spoon- 

 ful of what seemed to be pure water, without either taste or colour. After watching 

 the butterfly for a time, I seized it by the wings between my thumb and fingers with 

 the greatest ease, so utterly lost did it appear to me to what was going on near it. 



In another spot, I saw as many as sixteen of these large butterflies within the 

 space of a square foot, all engaged in the same strange action. Some of them 

 emitted the liquid more frequently than others ; and one of them squirted the 

 liquid so as to drop fully a quarter or a third of an inch beyond the point on the 

 ground, perpendicular with the end of its body. It was at this spot that I saw the 

 second species of butterflies alluded to also engaged in the same curious proceeding. 

 — E. Baeon, Antananarivo, Madagascar: January 27-d, 1884 {extracted from 

 "Nature" March 27th, 1884). 



[That most butterflies drink must have been observed by all entomologists even 

 in England, and more especially in the Alps of Europe, where it is not at all un- 

 usual to see groups of fifty or sixty individuals engaged at a damp spot on a hot day. 

 The interesting points in the above extract are, firstly, the great quantity of water 

 taken in by an individual in a short space of time ; and, secondly, the fact that it 

 was apparently discharged as fast as taken in — a kind of bath taken internally. — 

 Eds.] 



Food-plant of Sciajjhila pascuana, ^'c. — As supplementary to Mr. Barrett's 

 notes on the genus Sciaphila in this month's Ent. Mo. Mag., pp. 241 — 4, I may add, 

 that two seasons ago I bred S. pascuana freely from larvse collected spun up in the 

 flowers of Ranunculus bulbostis, in a rough uncultivated field near here. S. ictericana 

 also emerged from the flowers in about equal numbers with S. pascuana, and with 

 them one specimen of *S. octomacidana. — Geo. T. Poeeitt, Huddersfield : April 

 3/-rf, 1844. 



leuituj. 



EovAETANi Lapok : Budapest, 1884. 



This is a new Entomological Magazine in the Hungarian language published 

 monthly by the Editor Dr. G-. Horvath, who is assisted by Messrs. J. Frivaldsky, 

 Al. Mocsary, J. Paszlavszky and Dr. Edm. Tomosvary. All communications should 

 be sent to the Editor at Budapest (au palais du ministere de I'agriculture). 



With No. 3 is given, in French, a Supplement (to be continued) containing a 

 summary of all the articles published, in order to put entomologists in general in 

 possession of a concise idea of the contents of the publication. From the Introduc- 

 tion we learn that during the last 15 years tlie natural sciences have made considerable 

 progress in Hungary, and that a general progressive activity is discernible in 

 entomological studies ; and this journal is established to encourage and assist in 

 developing and making popular knowledge of insects, especially of such as are 

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