140 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
regards the placing, &c., it might perhaps be turned to good 
account amongst the Micro-Lepidoptera.—L. L. Samvugets; Victoria 
Park, Manchester, Feb. 15, 1886. 
Migration or Insects.—A proposition has been made in 
Ceylon for the systematic observation of the singular migration 
of butterflies in that island. Despite occasional references in the 
local press, nothing has yet been done towards compiling and 
editing a scientific and comprehensive record of annual observa- 
tions. It is proposed, therefore, that volunteers should watch for 
the migration, and send a post-card bulletin to the editor of the 
records, noticing date, direction of flight, direction of wind, the 
weather, and the species. For the last purpose amateur observers 
are to send one specimen of each species noticed, in order to 
ensure scientific accuracy. A competent naturalist is stated to 
have offered to revise, assort, and edit all such notices once or 
twice a year, and publish a periodical report of progress. The 
annual summary will appear in the ‘'Taprobanian Magazine.’ 
NewsparER Enromotocy.—In these days of School Boards 
and cheap science classes it is hardly credible that any person 
could be found to pen the following paragraph, cut from the 
‘Western Morning News’ of March 31st, 1886, and dated 
Capetown, March 10th. The italics are our correspondent’s, who, 
in sending this literary curiosity, added, “‘ This 1s reversing the 
natural order of things with a vengeance.” ‘ From Durban it is 
reported that much alarm has been caused in the Camperdown 
district by the scourge of armies of caterpillars which have 
appeared amongst the forage crops. One army extends a mile 
and a half deep, and has swept over about seventy acres of fine 
forage; another, comprising many millions, has eaten every bit 
of forage in one district; and the two armies are on the eve of 
joining, when it is feared that more damage will be done than the 
pest caused in 1878. Jt makes its appearance in the form of a 
small moth, in a few days it sheds its wings, becoming a caterpillar, 
and in a week it lays eggs, each caterpillar producing two hundred. 
They blacken the fields as they move about voraciously eating ; 
and in one place forty acres of forage were reduced to stubble.” 
Errata.—Entom., p. 93, line 8, for “Paris” read “ Para”; 
and at p. 81, line 8, read “came at 2.30 and for about an hour,” 
instead of ‘some 230.” 
