Dr. G. B. Longstaff's Bionomic Notes on Butter flics. 625 



Isamia midamus, Linn. Hong-Kong, 1904. (MS. 

 notes.) 



Crastia amymonc, Godt. ; f. Idnbergi, Wallgr. Macao, 

 1904. (MS. notes.) 



Danaicla chrysipjms, Linn. India, 1003. Noted as 

 resistant to cyanide as well as to pinching. (Trans. Ent. 

 See. Lond., 1905, p. 98.) 



Parnassius hardmcJcii, Gray. Himalayas,* 1903. " Deli- 

 cate looking though it be, it is strangely tenacious of life." 

 (Ibid. p. 69.) 



Telchinia violm, Fabr. India, 1904. (Ibid. p. 103.) 



Chittira fitmata, Butl. Ceylon, 1904. {Ibid. p. 131.) 



Acriea cahira, Hopfif. S. Africa, 1905. Noted as 

 resistant to chloroform as well as to pinching. (Ibid. 

 1907, p. 328.) t 



Anosia archippus, Fabr. Jamaica, 1907. (Ibid. 1908, 



P-^1-) .... 



Danaida jamaicensis, Bates. Jamaica, 1907. (Ibid. 



p. 41.) 



Danaida ercsimus, Cram. Venezuela, 1907. (MS. 

 notes.) 



Hcliconius charithonia, Linn. Jamaica, 1907. (Ibid. 

 p. 42.) 



Hehconius Jiydarus, Hew. Venezuela, 1907. (Entom. 

 Month. Mag., 1908, p. 118.) 



Adinote anteas, Dbl. and H. Venezuela, 1907. (Ibid. 



An examination of the following list of observations 

 in Ceylon, January to March, 1908, shows, among other 

 things, that whereas f of the specimens of Papilio hector 

 taken, and % of those of P. aristolochi/e, are recorded as 

 tenacious of life, this is oiot noted of any of the 9 specimens 

 of P. polytes, 5 of P. mooreanus, 4 of P. demoleus, 3 of P. 

 teredon, 7 of P. crino, and 14 of P. agamemnon. 



So far as my observations go there is no difference in 

 the powers of the two sexes of the butterflies here dealt 

 with to resist injuries. 



* In the discussion which followed the reading of the paper Dr. 

 Chapman remarked that three or four pinches scarcely availed to 

 kill the common Alpine Parnassius apollo, Linn. 



t Mr, W. S. Loat, quoted by Dixey, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1903, 

 p. 149, says of Acrsea vinidia, Hew., on the White Nile, " takes a 

 long time to die when put in the killing-bottle." 



