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Sitowski (8) publishes a brief note on his experiments in 
giving wool together with an aniline dye (‘Sudan III.”) to the 
caterpillars of Tincola biselliella, causing their bodies to be 
coloured red, the adipose tissue being the most intensely stained. 
The pup and moths resulting continued to preserve the typical 
red colour. There was an accumulation of dye in the ovary, and 
the eggs were also stained. 
Fernald (2) advocates tarring the seed of maize, then placing 
it ‘in a bucket containing fine dust and Paris green mixed in 
such proportions that the corn [maize], after being shaken up 
in the bucket, showed a greenish colour.’ The treatment is 
doubtless applicable to other seeds. 
Silvestri (7) gives an exceedingly interesting detailed report 
on his observations on a tour to investigate economic entomo- 
logy in the United States. A translation of the principal part 
has appeared in the ‘ Hawaiian Forester.’ 
Busck (1) gives a summary of Boving’s researches on the life 
history of the Donaciide. 
The caterpillars investigated by Forbes (3) were daplidice, 
rapé, and brassice. 
The other titles are self-explanatory. 
SOME AUGUST BUTTERFLIES OF CANTAL AND 
LOZERE.* 
By H. Rowzanp-Browy, M.A., F.E.S. 
(Concluded from p. 269.) 
Looxine through my old entomological note-books, I find 
that when in 1901 I visited the northern parts of Lozére, in 
company with Mr. A. H. Jones, I scarcely did justice to the 
possibilities of Mende and the surrounding mountains.+ On that 
occasion we arrived there from the Gorges of the Tarn the last 
week in July, and the weather was most unsettled ; the two days’ 
collecting afforded, therefore, but a very poor idea of the pro- 
* Ab. escherinus, n.ab.—Since writing the above, and the publication of 
the figures at p. 267, I have discovered among the females of P. eschertv in 
my collection a magnificent example taken at St. Martin-Vésubie, July, 1902, 
corresponding to the aberration of the male taken in Lozére. Under side: 
ground colour rich fawn-brown ; antemarginal spots, upper wings, reduced 
irregularly, two only on the right, one on the left wing; lower wings, ante- 
marginal spots, left wing, wholly obsolete; right wing, one very small near 
the anal angle. 
+ The first mention I can find of Mende as an entomological centre is to 
be found in a paper by M. C. Oberthiir, included in the Ann. Soc. Ent. 
France, 41 sér. tome iv. 1864, pp. 181-194, entitled ‘‘ Excursion Entomolo- 
gique dans le Lozére,” which gives some account of the butterflies met with, 
but chiefly deals with the fauna of Florac further south. 
