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emergence, resembled an unwieldly bag, and I wondered whether the 
proboscis had been used in pumping fluid thence through the wing 
nervures. These inquiries may betray great ignorance of recent 
writing on the subject, yet I hope indulgence will be extended to one 
desirous not only to be enlightened but to enlighten others.—F. J. 
Briaes; St. John’s, Barbados. 
SPHINX CONVOLVULI IN LINCOLNSHIRE.—A specimen was taken 
in the first week in August last at Sutton-on-Sea by Master P. D. 
Farrell. Although fairly perfect it had evidently been on the wing 
for some time.—G. Hanson-Sate. 
Topacco SMOKE, AN ATTRACTION To ApaTuRIDs.—In a recent 
letter from Mr. C. Morris, of Le Cannet, Alpes Maritimes, the writer 
mentions the fascination exercised by the fumes of strong cigarettes 
—‘caporals,” I assume—upon the Apaturide. ‘They fly, and settle 
all over one, if one stands still and smokes; the ladies of the genus 
do not seem to have taken to the vice at present! Otherwise, I take 
all at horse droppings; yet in all the years I have been collecting I 
have only seen but one single example of Limenitis populi thereon, a 
female, at about five o’clock of a July afternoon.” This affection for 
tobacco smoke is certainly a novel experience to me, but those of us 
who have had the good fortune to work the great Apaturid woods at 
Eclépens* in north-west Switzerland, or the even more prolific 
Rohrwald t+ at Spillern, near Vienna, will remember the assemblages 
of male Apatura iris and A. lia on the paths and in the rides, where 
I have seen them again and again return to the same bait, quite 
regardless of nets and pursuing humanity. I do not recall, however, 
a female of either species of the crowd, though they will come down 
from the trees late in the day to moisture. Some of the Satyrids 
evince similar tastes, in particular S. alcyone, while Hipparchia semele 
and S. carce love to settle on grey flannels, and even on the hand, in 
common with Hrebia ethiops and HE. neoridas, drawn, I think, by the 
human flavour! Smoke, on the contrary, seems to repel most 
butterflies just as it certainly obtains for the entomologist a respite 
from the attack of mosquitoes and biting flies. In Lapland, all the 
same, I found the strongest tobacco impotent against the enemy. 
Only by lighting birch-bark fires and sitting in the reek was it 
possible to ward off the myriad hordes which haunt the forests and 
arctic moorlands.—H. Rownanp-Brown; Harrow Weald, January 
12th, 1916. 
STIGMONOTA LEGUMINANA.—I was very pleased to see (antea, p. 19) 
that this rarity had turned up again. Since the days of Machin and 
Meek very few specimens seem to have been captured. The “several” 
specimens recorded by Meek in ‘Ent. Mo. Mag.,’ vol. iii, were really 
rather a large number I believe. Machin also took a good many at 
various times, more than once a dozen in an afternoon, and always 
by beating a mixed growth of beech and hornbeam. All the above 
were taken at Loughton. As years rolled on it seemed to get more 
* ‘Kntom.,’ vol. xl, pp. 242-243. 
+ ‘Entom.,’ vol. xxxi, p. 283; vol. xlvi, p. 150. 
