BUTTERFLIES OF CANTAL AND LOZBRE. 297 



Sitowski (8) publishes a brief note on his experiments in 

 giving wool together with an aniline dye (" Sudan III.") to the 

 caterpillars of Tineola hiselliella, causing their bodies to be 

 coloured red, the adipose tissue being the most intensely stained. 

 The pupae and moths resulting continued to preserve the typical 

 red colour. There was an accumulation of dye in the ovary, and 

 the eggs were also stained. 



Fernald (2) advocates tarring the seed of maize, then placing 

 it " in a bucket containing fine dust and Paris green mixed in 

 such proportions that the corn [maize] , after being shaken up 

 in the bucket, showed a greenish colour." The treatment is 

 doubtless applicable to other seeds. 



Silvestri (7) gives an exceedingly interesting detailed report 

 on his observations on a tour to investigate economic entomo- 

 logy in the United States. A translation of the principal part 

 has appeared in the ' Hawaiian Forester.' 



Busck (1) gives a summary of Boving's researches on the life 

 history of the Donaciidse. 



The caterpillars investigated by Forbes (3) were daplidice, 

 rapes, and hrassicce. 



The other titles are self-explanatory. 



SOME AUGUST BUTTEEFLIES OF CANTAL AND 



LOZEKE.* 



By H. Eowland-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 



(Concluded from p. 269.) 



Looking through my old entomological note-books, I find 

 that when in 1901 I visited the northern parts of Lozere, in 

 company with Mr. A. H. Jones, I scarcely did justice to the 

 possibilities of Mende and the surrounding mountains.! On that 

 occasion we arrived there from the Gorges of the Tarn the last 

 week in July, and the weather was most unsettled ; the two days' 

 collecting afforded, therefore, but a very poor idea of the pro- 



■'■ Ab. csclierimis, n. ab. — Since writing the above, and the publication of 

 the figures at p. 267, I have discovered among the females of P. escheri in 

 my collection a magniticent example taken at St. Manin-Vesubie, July, 1902, 

 corresponding to the aberration of the male taken in Lozere. Under side : 

 ground colour rich fawn-brown ; antemarginal spots, upper wings, reduced 

 irregularly, two only on the right, one on the left wing; lower wings, ante- 

 marginal spots, left wing, wholly obsolete; right wing, one very small near 

 the anal angle. 



t The first mention I can find of Mende as an entomological centre is to 

 be found in a paper by M. C. Oberthiir, included in the Ann. Soc. Ent. 

 France, 41 ser. tome iv. 1864, pp. 181-194, entitled " Excursion Entomolo- 

 gique dans le Lozere," which gives some account of the butterflies met with, 

 but chiefly deals with the fauna of Florae further south. 



