ike Mr. Albert Miller on the dispersal 
through the air; and storms and hurricanes are of such 
frequent occurrence, that they must have played a large 
part in stocking all uninhabited lands. (Address, &c., 
to the Ent. Soc. Lond. 23rd January, 1871.) A small 
longicorn beetle was observed to fly on board a vessel 
500 miles off the west coast of Africa.* A moth be- 
longing to the genus Andea was captured at sea, more 
than 200 miles from the west coast of Africa, and a but- 
terfly and several grasshoppers were noticed on board the 
ship, all of which are said to have been borne over the 
sea by the trade wind.f <A Colymbetes once flew on 
board the “ Beagle,” when forty-five miles distant from 
the nearest land: how much further it might have flown 
with a favouring gale no one can tell.t The beetles in 
Madeira, as observed by Mr. Wollaston, lie much con- 
cealed until the wind lulls and the sun shines; § a fact 
which I have found to hold good with all orders almost 
everywhere. I have collected in mountains, but more 
particularly in the bleak range of the Swiss Jura, near 
the Creux du Vent, where I have noticed that a breeze 
has the immediate effect of sending every flying creature 
either to the nearest rock, or into the very short herbage 
for shelter. This universal habit of mountain insects 
seems to denote their appreciation of the dangers which 
may arise to them from atmospheric disturbances. 
Taking all these facts (selected at random) into con- 
sideration, and bearing in mind the towering and soaring, || 
often out of sight, of many butterflies and moths, the cloud- 
hke swarms of Formicide, Tipulide, and other Diptera, 
dancing round church towers, and over the tops of 
* ‘ Zoologist,’ 1864, p. 8920. 
+ B.'T. Lowne, in Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond. ser. 3, vol. 2, proc. p. 39. 
i Darwin, ‘Origin of Species,’ 3rd ed. 1861, p. 417. 
§ Ibid. p. 153. ; 
|| Soaring of a moth, Anisoneura hypocyana; read Charles Horne’s note, 
‘ Zoologist,’ 1869, pp. 176-7. 
q Vide Bond, in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. ser. 3, vol 2, proce. p. 114:—* Mil- 
lions of swarming reddish ants round the tower of St. Maurice at Coburg, 
mistaken for curls of smoke....Firemen called out, &c.;”? and Wormald, ibid, 
stating that he “had seen something very similar at St. Albans, on the 
26th of August, when a swarm of small black ants presented the appear- 
ance of smoke issuing from the Abbey.” 
