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observations on the subject. The manager of the hotel used 

 to be an insect-man, and would, I am sure, be ready to help. 

 Perhaps if Dr. Moss had made these inquiries bel'ore now, he 

 would not have written to the 'Field,' and come down so 

 heavily on my unhappy letter." [E. W. H. Holdsworth). — E. 

 Newman. 



Migration of Urania Leilas. — Our readers are familiar 

 ' with migrations of butterflies; and now we see noticed in 

 'Nature' the migrations in "amazing numbers" of Urania 

 Leilus, which mimic butterflies, not only in their size and 

 disposition and colours of their scales, but also in this habit 

 of swarming, which we do not remember to have seen noticed 

 in other moths. This Urania was seen flying in swarms 

 across the Isthmus of Panama, and also by another person 

 near Para, Pernambuco, and Rio Janeiro : — " From an early 

 > hour in the morning until nearly dark these insects passed 

 along the shore in amazing numbers, but most numerously in 

 the evening; it was very seldom that one was seen in the 

 opposite direction." — ' American Naturalist.' 



[This is strongly corroborative of my view adopted from 

 oiu' best systematists, that the Uranidae are butterflies and 

 not moths. 1 accept it as a valuable addition to our know- 

 ledge of this transcendantly beautiful family of Lepidoptera. 

 — Edward Newman . ] 



D. Gain in Berkshire. — A friend of mine, some three or 

 four years ago, had three larvae brought him, which he 

 believed to be Elpenor. They were taken up the Bath Road, 

 off Fuchsia, and quite close to Reading. Two came out 

 splendidly, and proved to be Galii. The third unfortunately 

 died. 1 have seen the two insects and the empty pupa-cases. 

 I have taken its near relative, Livornica, in our own garden, 

 and in such a condition as pointed to its being only just 

 emerged. — E. B. Paul ton. 



Macroglossa Stella tar um Flying by Night. — I observe in 

 the 'Entomologist' (Entom. vi. 316) a notice, headed — "Does 

 M. Stellatarum Fly by Night?" I can confirm the observa- 

 tion of its doing so, which follows, by adding my own 

 experience of a similar circumstance. On my first visit to 

 Ilfracombe, about six years ago, the time being the mouth of 

 September, I took up my temporary abode at a cottage, 

 situated on an eminence that overlooked the harbour, and 



