■ Certainly I should never have expected to be thus confronted hi my own house 

 ith a living reminder of the adventures of a former generation of men and moths, 

 id I was startled with this apparition clothed with scales so unexpectedly, on both 

 des, introduced. Yet it was a dumb visitor, and gave no answer to the question, 

 hence came you ? My acquaintance with the tribe and family to which the quasi- 

 urist belongs has long been attenuated, and, therefore, I am not in a position to 

 y if a nearer locality than West Wickham (8 miles off) is now known for the 

 lecies ; this individual was neither worn nor travel-stained, and might very recently 

 id close-by have been born, bred and come out of its chrysalis. The mystery of 

 } native place might be less if the food of the larva were known, but this part of 

 iC history is still in abeyance. 



Some insects, from causes over which they have no control, are involuntary 

 igrants, and prosper thereby, or the contrary : I believe that some insects get an 

 sisted passage by railway, or it may be termed a free pass — they enter a railway 

 Triage and are carried a hundred miles before they leave it, besides, when the 

 aterials of which an embankment is formed are removed from a distance, the in- 

 cts attached to the plants thereon are, in some stage of their existence, removed 

 erewith, and take kindly to their new locality. And so, by the railway which now 

 aches from here to West Wickham, this Sophronia may have arrived. — J. W. 

 .0UGLA8, 8, Beaufort G-ardens, Lewisham : August Uh, 1884. 



Xote on JEupteryx abrotani. — On the 13th of August, 1874, I was, with a com- 



tuioii who knew the ground well, on the moor near West Kilbride, Ayrshire ; after 



bright, hot morning wind and clouds came up from the sea and brought rain well 



prthy of the name. We sought shelter in the lone dwelling of a shepherd, and 



liile waiting I sallied out during a lull to try if there were, any insects in a bush of 



rtemisia ahrotanum in the garden. A shower of wet came into my net, and with 



a quantity of small Homoptera in all stages of life, which were at once fixed on 



e wet surface, but I managed to bottle some twenty perfected Eupteryx abrotani, 



■: undescribed species, and quite new to me {cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xi, 118). I also 



M long fixed by the rain, but, like the hero of the immortal tale " Tarn o'Shanter," 



< whom, when weather-bound, it is said — 



" The storm without might rair and rustle. 

 Tarn did na mind the storm a whistle," 



was indifferent to that, as well as to the soaking which I got in going to Saltcoats, 

 ■y consolation, like Tarn's, being derived from the contents of the bottle. 



On the 27th of June last, on the boundary fence of my garden, I detected a 

 ilitary individual of this same species, but only one. There is no question that the 

 lecies is attached to Artemisia ahrotanum, a common cottage plant ; the curious 

 iing is that it so rarely occurs and that I should now get it, not on the plant but at 

 distance from it, for although there is a plant of the Artemisia in the garden it is 

 V away from the place of capture, and neither at the time, before, or since has 

 tare been an Eupteryx on it. My wanderer, I feel sure, came not thence, for all 

 le species of the genus are gregarious ; Artemisia maritima, a coast plant, on 

 ■jiich the species has been found, of course is not here, nor is there, as far as I 

 iow, any other Artemisia at hand, yet, I apprehend the foster-plant was not very 

 1; off. Ten years ago I had to go 500 miles to see the little beauty, now I find it 

 f my own door, not having seen one alive in the interval. — Id. : Aug. 13th, 1884. 



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