dl6 MR. H. J. ELWES ON BUTTERFLIES. [NoV. 15, 



Pyrgus cynar^, Ramb. Fn. And. t. viii. figs. 4, 5. 



Found by Radde on the Onon according to Bremer ; but Dr. 

 Staudinger has never seen Amur specimens. 



Syrichthus maculatus, Br. & Grey, Schmett. ntirdl. China, 

 p. 11. 



Pyrgus maculatus, Men. Cat. Mus. Petr. t. v. no. 5. 



P. sinicus, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xix. p. 96. 



The specimens from Shanghai, described by Mr. Butler as P. sini- 

 cus, differ somewhat from Amur specimens in having the outer band 

 of spots on the hind wing indistinct or absent. A Japanese specimen 

 is intermediate in these respects. 1 should have been inclined to 

 look on it as a good local variety or species ; but Dr. Staudinger 

 thinks it only &n aberration of S. tnaculatus. The latter is common 

 in Amurland. 



Scelothrix zona, Mab. Bull. Ent. See. Fr. 1875, p, ccxiv. 



Described from specimens collected by David at Pekin, which 

 seem from the description very near S. maculatus. I have never 

 seen this insect. 



NisoNiADEs tages, Liuu. Syst. Nat. x. p. 485. 



Found at Schilka and on the iVmur by Radde {fide Bremer), and 

 mentioned by Bremer from Pekin, but never seen from the Amur 

 by Dr. Staudinger. 



N. montanus, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 31, t. xi. fig. 4. 



N. rusticanus, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. ix. p. 58 (1866). 



Specimens of this species from Askold, Japan, and Shanghai agree 

 very well with each other. The female is distinguished by a pale 

 band across the fore wing. 



November 29, 1881. 

 Dr. A. Giinther, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



The following extract was read from a letter addressed to the 

 Secretary by Dr. A. Frenzel, of Freiberg, Saxony : — 



" Being informed by my friend Dr. Meyer, of Dresden, that he has 

 mentioned in his communication on Eclectus riedeli that I have 

 been endeavouring for some time to induce birds of this genus to 

 breed in my aviary, but without success until recently, I beg to 

 state that since the 3 1st of October a young Eclectus (or young 

 Eclecti) have been living in my aviary. I cannot decide whether 

 there is only one or two, because the breeding-box is fastened in such 

 a way that I cannot get to it without disturbing the birds. 



" The parents are a green Eclectus polyclilorus and a red Eclectus 

 grandis. The green one, the father, feeds the red one, the mother ; 

 and she, again, feeds the young. 



