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any of our British scabious, or Plantago, amongst the many other 

 plants offered to them. — W. H. St. Quintin. 



Influence of sound on lepidopteeous larv^. — Some years ago I 

 was rearing several kinds of birch-feeding larvae. Under one bell-glass 

 I kept larvae of Drepana falcataria, D. lacertinaria, Notodonta drome- 

 dariiis, Lophopteryx camelina, and Ephyra pendularia. One day, while 

 removing the glass, I happened to knock it, when only raised about an 

 inch, or so, and still covering the twigs of birch on which were the larvse, 

 the slight tap making the bell act up to its name, and ring sonorously. 

 The effect on the larvfe was quite amusing, for all, as if by word of 

 command, placed themselves into the mimicking or threatening postures 

 peculiar to each species, and then remained perfectly still, although a 

 second before a good many were feeding or moving about, and others 

 resting in the careless attitudes larv£e sometimes assume when no 

 danger is imminent. 1 send this note thinking that our insect photo- 

 graphers, or delineators of insect life, may like to experiment with a 

 bell-glass, when dealing with refractory subjects, or wishing to obtain 

 portraits of larvae in characteristic positions. — J. F. Bird, The Nurtons, 

 Tintern. May dth, 1906. [See also, Xatnral History of the British 

 Lepidoptera, i., p. 54, and Eiit. Record, iv., pp. 240-241. — Ed.] . 



Lepidoptera taken in Anglesea. — It appears to me that the follow- 

 ing may be of interest to those who are studying the distribution of 

 our British lepidoptera. My only authority for previous occurrences 

 is Day's List of Lepidoptera for Cheshire and North Wales counties. In 

 1904, I spent August and the earlier part of September at Llanfwrog, 

 which is on the part of the Anglesey coast that faces Holyhead. 

 Polyommatus icariis was very common locally, and I also took Plebeiits 

 aeyon (one) ; of the " whites," Pieris jiapi was by far the commonest, 

 but I only saw two P. brassicae. On August 20th, I took a very 

 battered specimen (male) of Aryynnis aglaia, the only previous record 

 being, I believe (in Newman's Brit. Biitterjiies, p. 28), at Beaumaris, 

 the opposite end of the island. Hipparchia semele was very common 

 in one locality, on sandhills, on August 17th, but after the 21st it 

 disappeared ; Pyrameis cardni (one) at Holyhead, I also took a double 

 aberration of Coenonympha pamphihis, the upperside being ab. obsoleta, 

 and the underside ab. bipupillata. Among the moths captured I also 

 took Peridroma sitfnsa, Hb. { = ypsilon, Eott.) (one), Anchocelis lunosa 

 (fairly common), A. pistacina (common), Melanthia albicillata (one) ; 

 all, I believe, first records for the county, and also Dianthoecia 

 capsincola (one female), Bryophila perla (common), and Hydroecia 

 micacea (two), only one previous record. In the winter following a 

 specimen of Ayrhis convolvuli was sent to me, taken in August in Market 

 Square, Carnarvon, and believed to have been brought in from the 

 country in a vegetable cart. Besides these, T can also record an old 

 occurrence of Manduca atropos in Anglesey, my father having seen one 

 on a cypress tree at Henblas, in either 1860 or 1861. — M. Wynne- 

 Jones, 12, Bridge Street, Cambridge. May 20th, 1906. 



Migration of butterflies in Buenos Ayees. — The season just 

 closing has been a bad one for many insects owing to a persistent 

 drought that lasted four months, but, as usually happens when weather 

 conditions are abnormal, some few species flourished exceedingly. The 

 fine " meadow-brown" we see here — I believe it is Jnnonia larinia — 

 was particularly abundant, and, late in March, was for days apparently 



