lf^4 Felix Bryk: 



out and took nearly fifty, and have several pairs tried 

 iip under netting, with sedum. One pair have matcd 

 in the net, Juli 8th: „I went out this morning, and took 

 twenty or more pairs, and watched the females. Thej'' 

 all seem to fly to the ground, and either lay their eggs on 

 the ground or in the grass roots. I could not find eggs, 

 though I saw them drop. I have a large number of females 

 now tied up. Some which were let loose, after refusing 

 to lay in confinement, laid at once on the grass and any- 

 where. The species is common, by hundred on every 

 hillside". 



Mr. Courtis schickte 140 Eier und sagte: ,,Most of these 

 came from females that mated after I caught them. 



Eiablage I think they laj'' at the roots of plants, as they alwaj^s 

 drop to the ground, then climb the stalk and fl\^ away. 

 Those in confinement climbed sticks, and the window 

 frames, laying eggs as they went, putting one everything 

 they touched, except the sedum. I made one lay on 

 this by keeping her moving, but she seemed very much 

 excited. As soon as I put her on grass and sticks she 

 laid every few moments," Again ,,I noticed a female 

 alight on sedum, drop to the ground, and climbs up. She 

 certainly laid an egg, though I could not find it (p. 44). 

 Mr. Wright was at Maiden nearly three weeks. He says: 

 ,,One cannot go far without seeing pairs in copulation, 

 during the short season of paring and on the limited areas 

 on which the newly emerged imagos appear. Copulation 

 Kopula takes place immediately on the emergence of the fem.ales, 

 often while the wings are still limp . . . Afterwards the 

 males fly away, and are seen far beyond the breeding 

 grounds, but the females remain there. Most of the 

 females I take start up at my feet, and tili the eggs are 

 laid the female rarely flies. But the males are continually 

 on the wing, hovering low to detect the female in hiding, 

 or as she suns herseif on a bare spot of ground. It is 

 nearly impossible to discover them when hidden, even 

 though one may know within a few inches where they 

 are. When a female is started by the male she flies 

 straight and rapidly, and suddenly drops into the grass. 

 Apparently this action is for the purpose of misleading 

 or eluding the male. In life, especially at pairing time, 

 both sexes have a strong odor that, on taking them from 

 the net, I often found very disagreable. I have seen the 

 females lay eggs on grass, wild rose, blackberry and one 

 of the Compositae, but never on Sedum". 

 p. 47: (Bruce) in Gefangenschaft legten sie Eier auf Sedum. 

 [*54 bis] 1889. J. H. Leech, Description of a new Luehdorfia 



from Japan, in: The Entomologist, Vol. XXII, Febr. p. 25. 



