124 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



season with Attacus Roylei, the Hhnalaya oak silkworm, and 

 Actias Selene. On the 4th and 5th March, 1881, two males and 

 one female of Attacus Roylei emerged, and to my great surprise a 

 pairing took place ; the greater part of the ova obtained shrunk, 

 hut a good number show now (4th April) but a very slight 

 depression, and may be good. Several Selene moths also emerged 

 from the middle of March to the present moment (4th April). 



A fuller report on the species bred in 1880 will be found in 

 the ' Journal of the Society of Arts,' Februar}' 25th and March 

 4th, 1881. It contains an article on the collecting and rearing of 

 larvae, and also on the best plan to adopt for sending living 

 cocoons and pupae from distant countries to England. Articles 

 on the same subject appeared in the 'North China Herald,' 

 November 25th ; the ' Madras Athenaeum ' and ' Daily News,' 

 December 4th, 1880; the 'Times of India' (Bombay), the 

 * Indian Agriculturist,' and other papers. 

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BUTTERFLY HUNTING IN NATAL : ON THE COAST-LANDS. 



By William D. Gooch, C.E. 



(Continued from p. 105.) 



After our frugal lunch, our little party marshalled, we enter 

 within a few paces from where we have rested, the long open 

 glade on the summit of the hill, chiefly made up of Kaffir-Boom 

 trees, which is the special haunt of OpliicUcephalus, and we have 

 barely arrived, ere himself in person interviews us. Taken some- 

 what by surprise, the veteran's stroke is lost, and I make none, or 

 I should have inevitably captured his hat instead of Ophidi- 

 ceplialus, as it was the most prominent object to hand. 



A minute or two later we are stationed in a narrow part of the 

 glade, well shaded from the fierceness of the sun, and with a 

 tunnel formed in the bosky depths, through which the coursing 

 insects charge headlong in pursuing their flight along the glade, 

 which is clearly continued, although much constricted. 



Mark ! cry I, and our veteran in eagerness strikes at the 

 lounging male, which approaches not apparently at a great pace, 

 but in a most deceptive way, his tails undulating and swaying as 

 the insect swings forward, travelling, however, as a matter of fact 



