RANDOM NOTES FROM FRANCE. 2783 
L.1:9mm. Dull reddish brown; abdomen with central transverse bars of 
dusky brown ; longest and widest near cauda, diminishing in size towards thorax. 
Meso-and metathorax dark brown ; prothorax with a dark patch on each side, and 
a central rectangular space of red surrounded by a dark line; head nearly black, 
eyes dark red; first two segments of antenne and basal half of third, dark, also 
the tip of fifth; the remainder whitish. A portion of both wings, on the lower 
part a little distance from the base, is tinged with a reddish shade. 
The rostrum reaches considerably beyond the centre of body ; the last joint is 
long and thin, hardly wider at base than near apex. 
Antenne five-jointed ; the 1st as broad as long, the 2nd narrower and slightly 
Jonger, swollen at apex, the 3rd longest, rather more than one and a half times as 
long as the 4th plus 5th, its under surface covered with large oval and round 
sensoria, 45 to 48 in number; they are not so large nor so prominent as in formi- 
caria; 4th segment slightly longer than 5th, with one large irregular sensorium at 
the apex, and three (right antenna) or four (left) small circular senscria in a row 
from the apical one to the base; 5th segment with a short blunt nail under which 
is a large sensorium and a group of three smaller ones. The whole antenna is less 
than half as long as the body. < 
Vertex with a central impressed line, and slightly convex on each side of this. 
Hyes Jarge, with a lower projecting portion. There is an ocellus above each com- 
pound eye and a 3rd in centre of vertex. 
Legs long, considerably longer than in the apterous form. Cauda short and 
rounded. The abdomen is flatter than in the apterous form. Cornicles mere 
pores. 
Upper wing with a single cubital vein arising some distance from the cubitus. 
The Ist and 2nd oblique veins rise from the same point in the cubitus. Both wings 
are delicately imbricated over their entire surface, except along the cubitus in the 
upper wing ; the stigma is more coarsely imbricated, and also is coloured a smoky 
brown, like the nervures. 
Pitosity rare ; a few short hairs on the antenne, and a tuit of longer ones on 
apex of nail of 5th segment; and fine hairs on cauda. 
Random Notes from France. 
By Capt. W. BOWATER, M.C., F.E.S. 
I have had no opportunity whatever for collecting, but have kept 
an eye open for Lepidoptera whenever possible ; although when out of 
doors, | was usually riding a horse or in an ambulance car. 
Insects flying, or at rest, or larve, to be noticed under these 
circumstances must be fairly prominent, so that although I can record 
no varieties, I desire to testify how valuable to me an interest in Lepi- 
doptera has been, especially when feeling the need for something on 
which the mind could dwell, exactly opposite to war and its horrors. 
Thus, on a certain rather trying occasion, when all that could be 
done was ‘‘ to stand and wait,” the flight of Limenitis sibylla (a fresh 
‘experience for me) served admirably to please the eye and calm the 
thoughts. 
Again after many hours of continuous work, the dashing arrival 
of Cosmotriche potatoria at the lamp made a moment’s distraction, and 
reminded one that there were other better things on earth than man 
slaughtering man, so graphically typified by the brave fellows filing 
through the dressing station. 
On July ist, I saw a communication trench along which men, 
wounded but able to walk, were passing back to the dressing station. 
This ‘‘ Via Dolorosa”’ was dotted occasionally with drops of blood, on 
which many Hesperids, oblivious of the strife between the “lords of 
creation,’ regaled themselves between their flights over the ground 
between the trenches which was bright with wild flowers and from 
