296 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
4th. While B. Par has only, as far as I know, been taken, in 
this country, on old walls at Cambridge, B. glandifera is; 
believe, a coast species. 
Lastly, B. glandifera run slightly larger than the nearly allied 
species. 
I may add that a form of B. glandifera occurs which has the . 
mealy appearance of B. Par, but without the dark costal mark- 
ings and base of cilia which are always observable in the latter. 
These differences may appear but slight, but to any one who 
sees a row of the two insects, they will, I feel sure, appear 
sufficient to convince him of their real distinctness. I shall 
be much obliged to any one who will next summer send me full- 
fed larvee of B. glandifera from the coast. 
Park House, Stubbington, I:reham, Hants, Sept. 16, 1580. 
NOTES ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF NATAL. 
By Witturam D. Goocu, C.E. 
I uave read the article by Mr. A. J. Spiller, as published in 
the ‘Entomologist’ of this year, with much attention, as he 
describes a fauna which is very well known to me, and of which 
I have had an experience extending over five years; a field 
which, as he rightly says, has the merit of being very rich in 
species, many of them of great beauty and interest. 
I feel obliged to express my regret, however, that Mr. Spiller, 
before addressing his paper to so important an organ in the 
scientific world as the ‘ Entomologist, has not placed himself in 
communication directly with the great authority on all matters 
rhopalocerous in South Africa, the genial, enthusiastic, and 
careful Curator of the Cape Town Museum, Mr. Roland Trimen, 
F.L.S., ke. Had he done so, his paper would have been very 
much more complete, and ‘new species” perhaps might be found 
as already known, described, and appropriately placed, in the 
numerous papers published from time to time by the inde- 
fatigable author of ‘ Rhopalocera Africe Australis. Not that I 
disclaim any right to a discovery of new species by Mr. Spiller: 
my own experience proves that to an enterprising and active 
collector, as Mr. Spiller evidently is, from time to time new species 
ave almost sure to oceur, and such may have been Mr. Spiller’s 
