282 Inaecta. 



and early November, during which season moths of many species visited the 

 lights in enormous numbers, so that the lamp-posts etc. were closely covered 

 with them and the ground was strewn with their bodies. Large numbers of 

 birds, including crows, appeared every morning at earliest dawn to feast on the 

 moths. In the same place and at the same period, butterflies were passing over 

 the country in large numbers on their migrations, but no bird was ever seen to 

 attempt to catch one, either during the day or when they were settling for the 

 night. The writer doubts whether the occasional capture of moths by birds, which 

 can often be observed, is sufficient to have any effect on the general moth- 

 population or to be a factor in influencing the value of protective resemblance. 

 It is neccessary to discover whether there are any birds which make moths 

 their special food, and whether any such birds confine themselves to certain spe- 

 cies of moths. 



The protective resemblance of moths to their surroundings is manifested 

 when they are at rest: and to determine whether the attacks of birds have been a 

 factor in the evolution of this resemblance, it is important to know whether birds 

 seek for and devour moths at rest as well as capturing them when they are flying. 

 Both authors discuss this point. The second writer considers that birds do seek 

 for resting moths. He describes certain cases observed by him in England, of the 

 feeding of young birds with moths by their parents, in which it is almost cer- 

 tain that the moths were sought out and captured when at rest. In one case a 

 young cuckoo was fed by its foster-parents during the daytime with specimens 

 of a moth which flew abundantly in the locality at evening but which was never 

 seen on the wing during the day. H. Scott (Cambridge). 



924) Meyrick, E., Capture of moths at sea. In: Entomologist, Bd. 45, Heft 7, 

 S. 204, 1912. 



A case is recorded of large numbers of small moths being blown out to sea off 

 the S. American coast, about 100 miles from Montevideo. Those blown on board ship 

 and captured proved to be 8 spp. of Geometridae and 1 Tortricid: all were insects of 

 weak flight. H. Scott (Cambridge). 



925) Buresch, Iw., Notizen über die Rhopalocerenfauna Bulgariens [By- 

 pemi, Hb., Li-itacKH ii3t. ([lavHaTa Ha AueBHiirli iiencpjMH aa Ei-irapim. — Tpyji,OBe ua 

 IvMrapcKOTO HpiipoAHsn. ^tpyac.j. In: Arb. Bulgar. Naturforsch.-Gesellsch., V, S. 20 — 56, 

 Sophia 1912. 



Zuerst gibt Verf. eine kurze geschichtliche Entwicklung der Entomologie in Bul- 

 garien und erwähnt die Bedeutung der Akklimatisationsversuche des Zaren der Bulgaren. 



Er zählt 3;') Formen auf und ergänzt ihre Biologie durch eigene Beobachtungen 

 (z. B. Argynnis diu L., Tliecla tv-album Kn., Lycaena anteros Frr. haben zwei Genera- 

 tionen). 



Neue Formen für Bulgarien fand er folgende: Colias edusa ab. helicina Obth., 

 Pyrameis cardui ab. elimi Rbr., Vanessa urticae ab. herrmanni Harrm., Polygonia c-album 

 ab. jota-alhum Neich., ab. varieguta Tutt., Erebia ligea ab. borisi ab. nov. (durch Mangel 

 aller Augenflecken auf den Vorderflügeln sofort von allen ligea-Formen zu unterscheiden. 

 Die Querbinde bleibt daher auf den Vorderflügeln leerj, Chrysophanus virgaiireae ab. 

 elongata Courv., Chr. dispar-rutüus ab. nigrolincata Ver., Lycaena anteros ab. pupillaris 

 Aign., Cyaniris argiolus ab. hypoleuca Kell. 



In Bulgarien sind bis jetzt 168 Species von Rhopaloceren gefunden worden. 



Bachmetjew (Sophia). 



926) Fryer, J. C. F., The Lepidoptera of Seychelles and Aldabra, ex- 

 clusive of the Orneodidae and Pterophoridae and of the Tortricina 

 and Tinein a. In: Trans. Linn. Soc. London, (Ser. 2, Zool.), Bd. XV, Heft 1, 

 S. 1—28, Taf. 1, 1912. 



This is a report on the Lepidoptera obtained by the Percy Sladen Trust 

 Exp. to the W. Indian Ocean, exclusive of the groups named in the title, on 



