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the allied Oriental species and at once admitted the resemblance. 
The movements of the English species were described by the 
President in 1890 (“Colours of Animals,” p. 250): “The slender 
wasp-like legs are moved in a rapid somewhat jerky manner, 
very different from the usual stolid Coleopterous stride, but 
remarkably like the active movements of a wasp, which always 
seem to imply the perfection of training.” 
Dr. F. A. Drxry read the following communication : 
In the late Professor Westwood’s ‘Introduction to the 
Modern Classification of Insects,” vol. ii, 1840, p. 352, under 
the head of HeEticonups#, there occurs the following passage : 
* A curious circumstance has been recently published relative 
to one of the species, Huplea (Danais) hamata, Macleay, an 
inhabitant of New Holland, where it abounds to such an 
extent, that it is employed as an article of food by the natives, 
who call them Bugong, and collect them by bushels, and then 
bake them by placing them upon heated ground.” References 
are given by Westwood to Bennett’s “Wanderings in New 
South Wales,” and to Kirby’s Bridgewater Treatise. 
Thinking that the existence of a Huplea (or, as it would 
now be called, a 7vwmala) used as human food was a matter 
of considerable interest, [ looked up the passage in Bennett’s 
“ Wanderings.” It is as follows: 
“The Bugong moths . . . collect on the surfaces and 
also in the crevices of the masses of granite in incredible 
quantities: to procure them with greater facility, the natives 
make smothered fires underneath those rocks about which 
they are collected, and suffocate them with smoke, at the 
same time sweeping them off frequently in bushels-full at a 
time. After they have collected a large quantity, they proceed 
to prepare them, which is done in the following manner. 
A circular space is cleared upon the ground, of a size 
proportioned to the number of insects to be prepared; on it 
a fire is lighted and kept burning until the ground is con- 
sidered to be sufticiently heated, when, the fire being removed, 
and the ashes cleared away, the moths are placed upon the 
heated ground, and stirred about until the down and wings 
are removed from them; they are then placed on pieces of 
bark, and winnowed to separate the dust and wings mixed 
