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indebted to Mr. Herbert Campion) refer to something which has 
immaculate neuration, and Mr. Campion, who has also very 
kindly examined Stephens’s supposed types in the British 
Museum, is of opinion that the elegans and marshami of Stephens 
are conspecific with striatellus. If there has been no confusion 
about Stephens’s types, a change in the nomenclature here used 
will be inevitable. I leave the matter as it is in the meantime, 
pending further inquiries. I confess that it is a little puzzling 
that McLachlan should have failed to notice the immaculate 
condition of the neuration of elegans and marshami when he 
examined them in 1868, and that he should have distinctly 
stated that there existed in elegans an important character at 
variance with Stephens’s diagnosis and with his type of elegans. 
If S. striatellus prove to be the true elegans of Stephens, Rambur’s 
name pygmeus will require to receive consideration in connection 
with the smaller species. 
The wing figures here given are both from female examples, 
and, as is usual in these insects, the markings are more pro- 
nounced than in the average males. A number of closely allied 
forms have been described by Father Navas from Spain and 
elsewhere. Of two of these the author has generously given me 
examples, S. conspersus and S. venosus, and although they 
present a certain amount of difference, especially in the coloration 
of the body, I am not prepared to say that they are more than 
varieties of what is here called S. elegans. A much more 
exhaustive examination of all the forms, especially with regard 
to the structure of the genitalia, is required before a proper 
valuation of these is possible. 
EXPLANATION oF PLaTE V.—1. Wings of Boriomyia subnebulosus 
(nat. length of fore wing, 9 mm.). 2. Wings of Sympherobius striatellus 
(nat. length of fore wing, 5 mm.). 3. Wings of S. elegans (nat. length of 
fore wing about 4 mm.). 
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THE SLEEPING ATTITUDE OF LYCANIDA.’ 
By F. W. Frouaws, M.B.O.U., F.E.S. 
Ir is generally supposed that the Lycenide sleep throughout 
the night, sitting head downwards on the flower-heads and stems 
of grasses and other plants, in the characteristic attitude they 
assume during evening and twilight. But later, when darkness 
supersedes, these butterflies (L. icarus) turn round and sleep 
head upwards. I am indebted to Mr. W. Holland for kindly 
calling my attention to this interesting fact. In a letter recently 
received from him, he alludes to marking down groups of 
L. icarus at rest on marram grass in the evening, and states 
