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that I can see ; but unfortunately I have not the time to experiment 

 as fully as I could wish. If lime has not been tried before, I should 

 like some of our professors to try it, and give us the results. It 

 certainly stops the grease spreading any further, saves entirely the 

 unattacked parts, and greatly improves the rest. It is clean, cheap, 

 and easily used ; a week being enough for a new subject, older cases 

 take longer. — J. T. Fountain ; 58, Darwin Street, Birmingham, Oct. 

 18th, 1895. 



Senses of Insects. — Mr. Jefferys' note on the hearing of insects 

 (ante, p. 278) reminds me of an incident that came under my notice 

 which may be worth relating. As I was sandpapering some cork for 

 entomological purposes in the quiet hours of the night some time ago, 

 I saw a cricket, Acheta domestica, coming towards me. I stopped sand- 

 papering, the cricket stopped; moved, the cricket ran away ; resumed 

 my work, the cricket returned. I repeated it two or three times, and 

 at last it came so near to me that I was able to catch it. From this 

 it seems that although crickets have ears, which I understand are 

 situated in the tibia of the front legs, they are not able to distinguish 

 between the noise made by sandpapering cork and that produced by 

 themselves. This is but a single instance it is true. — F. Milton ; 

 184, Stamford Hill, N. 



PiEKis -RkVM IN New Mexico. — I had hitherto seen this in New 

 Mexico only at Santa Fe ; but lately Miss Lee showed me an example 

 caught in the vicinity of Albuquerque, she thinks last summer. In 

 this country we look upon a new locality for P. rapce with much 

 interest, while nobody thinks of troubling to run after Vanessa antiopa, 

 one of our commonest butterflies. — T. D. A. Cockerell ; Las Cruces, 

 New Mexico, U.S.A., Sept. 14th. 



A Note on the Lepidoptera of Middlesex. — * Harrow Butterflies 

 and Moths' (vol. i., by J. L. Bonhote and W. C. Rothschild), published 

 by the Harrow School Scientific Society, adds several species not, I 

 think, included in the "Preliminary List of the Insect Fauna of 

 Middlesex" (Entom. xxiv., xxv.), and in my own, and other records, 

 in the 'Entomologist' (xxvii., xxviii.). With a view to further com- 

 pleting the county list, I have made a note of those species which now 

 appear for the first time, though two sets of observations, those of Col. 

 Haubury-Barclay and Mr. F. Bond, belong apparently to the forties 

 and fifties. Besides these, the authors quote freely from Mr. Melvill's 

 ' Flora of Harrow,' the date of which is given as 1874. Mr. Cockerell 

 also mentions this publication, but the edition he used was that of 

 1867. Possibly the notices now before me, and not in Mr. Cockerell's 

 list, were made in the intervening years 1867-1874. Of the Rhopalo- 

 cera Mr. Ehoades- Smith has discovered a locality for Leucophasia 

 smapis, whose claim to rank as a Middlesex insect has hitherto been 

 based upon Mr. Mera's single specimen at Chiswick (Entom. xxiv. 119), 

 while the same collector also reports Colias hyale taken in August, 

 1892. Thecla riihi (a single-specimen record) has turned up again at 

 Wealdstone, while Satyrus semele and Melitaa aurinia have also been 

 caught in the neighbourhood. En passant, I am myself glad to 

 supplement a previous notice of Thecla iv -album (Entom. xxiv, Q5) with 



