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* 56. A. S. Packard, Jr. Occurrence of Telea polyphe- 

 mus in California. — A correction, p. 243-244. 



Correction of No. 1 of this Record (applying in part to Araer. Nat., vol. 

 vii, p. 454). Telea poly phemus does occur along the Pacific coast; " Gory- 

 todes uncanaria Guen. " — Platiza Californiaria H.-Sch. ; G. irilinearia 

 Pack. = P. trilinearia. 



* 57. S. H. Scudder. The Natural History of a Poly- 

 morphic Butterfly, p. 257-266. 



Distribution, food-plants, forms, seasons, habits and enemies of Iphiclides 

 Ajax. [See this Record, No. 4.] 



* 58. A. S. Packard, Jr. Nature's Means of limiting the 

 numbers of Insects, p. 270-282. 



List of some birds, insects, and other animals which eat insects; prolifi- 

 cacy of injurious insects; importance of insect-enemies, and means of pro- 

 moting their action. 



* 59. S. H. Scudder. The Preservation of Caterpillars 

 by Inflation, p. 321-326, fig. 76-77. 



Directions for preparing larvas for the cabinet by inflating and drying 

 their emptied pellicles. 



* 60. Dr. „Oscar Loew. The Honey-ants. p. 365-366. 

 Habitations, honey-holders and honey of Myrmecocystus Mexicanus. 



Butterflies attracted by Lamp-light. — By permission of the 

 keeper, I recently visited Sankaty Light, Nantucket, to collect moths. Un- 

 fortunately the night was clear, though only starlight, and between eight 

 and nine o'clock only two moths (Noctuids) came to the lantern. Since 

 then, however, on the cloudy and unusually warm night of Sept. lltli. in- 

 sects were so numerous as to give the keepers much trouble, by obstructing 

 the flow of the oil in the lamp; and the under keeper, Mr. Frank B. Mur- 

 phy, came afterward to see me, bringing a tin box containing a dozen living 

 specimens of Nymphalis J-album taken at night in the lantern, saying that 

 these had given most trouble; hundreds had flown into the lantern. I do not 

 recollect to have heard a similar instance of the attraction of butterflies 

 to light. Sankaty is a powerful flash light, and is visible over a great part 

 of the island. S. H. Scudder. 



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