110 Dr. G. B. Longstaff on 



Mr. W. H. Edwards, in his Buttcrjiics of North America, 

 1897, quotes Mr. William Couper's observation as to a 

 habit of Golias j'lhilodice, Godt., in Anticosti : — 



When it alights on a flower, instead of being erect on 



its feet, it lies sideways, as if to receive the warmth 



of the sun. 



The original passage occurs in the Canadian Entomologist, 



vol. vi, p. 92, 1874 ; if therefore this be truly such a list as 



is under discussion, Mr. Couper deserves the credit of 



having first observed it, but at present I am doubtful on 



the point. 



In the summer of 1908, at Mortehoe, Dr. Dixey and I 

 observed a like habit in Satyrus semele, L. ; and later in 

 that year (and in the following) I found that other British 

 Satyrids, such as Farargc fogcria, L., and Mcgmra, L. ; 

 Epincphchjnriina, L., and hyjjerantlvus, L., had a similar 

 habit, though less marked. The butterflies when confined 

 in a box were seen to assume the list more often in sun- 

 shine than in shade.* 



In India, in the late autumn of 1893 I noted the same 

 habit in the Satyriues Hipparchia parisatis, Koll., and 

 Auloccoxc swaha, Koll. j" 



On the voyage out to South Africa the usual call at 

 Madeira gave us little more than a glimpse at its butter- 

 flies. The local race of Satyrus semele, L., was common on 

 the Camiuho do Meio at an altitude of about 800 ft., and 

 Dr. Dixey has this note : — 



Settled on the ground, low herbage, walls and tree- 

 trunks. The fore-wings are depressed with a snap 

 as in the English semele. Two were sjDocially noted 

 settling in sunshine (not strong) both turned head 

 to sun and listed — one to port and one to starboard. 

 My note is : — 



A specimen seen settled face to sun, list 30° to 

 starboard. 

 It was ol course only to be expected that on the fifth 

 day from leaving Southampton we should both use nautical 

 phraseology. 



South Africa contributed little to increasing our know- 

 ledge of the " list." The genus Pseudonympha, somewhat 

 suggestive of Erclia, is characteristic of Cape Colony ; at 



* Entomologist'.s Monthly Magazine, 1905, p. 44. 

 t Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1905, pp. 64, 135. 



