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Tux'key ; Calliiaenus jxincici, Br., is a rarer species only 

 known from 8ervia ; Ciollimenus mao'ogasler, Lefeb., is fairly 

 widely distributed in South Russia ; it was long regarded as 

 synonymous with C. oniscus and later with C. montandon-i, 

 but it is now clear that it is a distinct species. All these 

 insects are confined to the countries bordering on the Black 

 Sea ; they are sluggish and inactive creatures, living among 

 thorns and shrubs ; they are entirely vegetable feeders ; 

 individuals appear to be nowhere numerous ; in Russia they 

 are popularly known as "ground hogs" (zemlyannaya svinka) 

 or "fat fellows " (tolstun). The rudimentary elytra can be 

 just seen in the females, but in the males they ai*e entirely 

 hidden. Brunner has observed that in July the males chirp 

 all day long, sitting immovably in the corner of a branch, 

 with the head downwards. 



Mr. H. Rowland-Brown exhibited specimens of Argynnis 

 niobe, var. eris, ? , from the Pyrenees, Cevennes, and South 

 Tyrolese mountains. He drew attention to the remarkable form 

 of the example taken at Gavarnie, in July 1905, of which the 

 coloration of the upper-side of all the wings was ruddy-copper 

 red shot with blue upon the nervures. He also remarked that 

 whereas specimens of eris and other Argynnids from the 

 mountainous regions of Central France showed a tendency to 

 maintain constant pale forms, those from the Pyrenees are 

 generally more highly coloured, while the high Alpine forms 

 of Central Europe inclined to melanism. 



Mr. H. Rowland-Beoavn, at the request of Mr. C. 0. 

 Waterhouse, also read the following note on the migration of 

 Lepidoptera extracted from a report on " The Pearl Oyster of the 

 Gulf of Manaar — Avicula {7neleagri7ia)fucafa," by Henry Sulli- 

 van Thomas, F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc., extracted from the "Madras 

 Journal of Literature and Science " for the session 1886-87 : — 

 " liJutterflies can in an astonishing manner fly against a very 

 strong wind. That butterflies can so fly is a fact in natural 

 history which is doubtless well known, for as my memory 

 serves me it is mentioned by Darwin ; and I have myself 

 repeatedly seen butterflies crossing the Red Sea with consider- 

 able rapidity in the very teeth of a decidedly stiff breeze — 1 

 think, from memory without notes, that I may call it a reef 



