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not clo.-!3, aii'l why should it affect walls, where, on this hypothesis, it 

 has no other business, in order to do so '? I have seen Ktistalia tenax 

 enter a room and examine the wall in the manner of M. stdlatann)}, 

 being specially attracted by certain darker points of the paper, but it 

 did not appear to be mimicking any bee, but rather misled by the 

 paper into supposing- it had found some usual pabulum. On February 

 21st, at Eanguin, I found a dipteron that was certainly mimick- 

 ing some An'lri'iia or O.oin'a, flying along an old wall with precisely the 

 manner, appearance, and hum of a bee, and only seen to be a dipteron 

 when it settled to sun itself instead of entering a crack or hole in the 

 wall. All which, however, brings us no nearer to understanding the 

 vagaries of M. stfUatanon. 



In looking, even casually, over Milliere's Lid nf tlv L'-pi- 

 (hiptrra of til'' Alpi'H Maritiiii''s, one cannot help being struck by 

 the great changes that have occurred in the 20 years that have since 

 elapsed in the aspect of what is now Cannes. Not a few of his species 

 are recorded from places that are now built on, enclosed, or otherwise 

 have hardly any of their original natural features left. The same im- 

 pression results from consulting Ardoino's " Flora'' oi the district, 

 now 20 years old, and quoting older authorities. The Croisette is not 

 infrequently mentioned as a station of sundry very local species, it is 

 very improbable that even a fraction of these remain, many of the 

 commonest native plants being practically exterminated and the whole 

 ground enclosed and overrun. On February 26th I saw a long-tailed 

 Chalcid carefully Examining an egg mass oi Mantis : I failed to capture 

 it, but the insect may probably be bred from some of these curious 

 ovipositories. These egg-masses are sometimes exposed on twigs and 

 grass stems very conspicuously, and must get well baked in the sun, 

 and it was on one of these I saw the ('ludris : more usually, however, 

 the egg-masses are half hidden under the shaded side of a rock or 

 stone. On the 28th, visiting for the first time a haunt of I'ldj/ijonia 

 eijca, near Mouans-Sartoux, three specimens were seen. 



On March 2nd I saw two males and one female of (ioifjitcnir 

 ch-njiutra in the Esterels, also Kii'jmiia jtnli/chhu'os, Satnniia jiaronia- 

 iiii)t(ir, J'hijiitJu'cia jiiDnilata, and 1'acliiji-ittniia hipjxH-astanaria. Full- 

 grown larvae of CJiaraj-e-i janiis were also observed, and Parari/i' 

 iiiri/ai'irt was flying freely. I saw no Thais, and no ^firnijit'Ti/r, but 

 Tnrtii.r nnicolorana was in pupa. On the 3rd I went ria ]\Iouans 

 Sartoux to the Auribeau Valley and saw I'allojihnjs nihi abundant, 

 AittJiiH-Iiaris hi'lia, one, and KiicJilo':' fniihcnoidc-i, one. I also observed a 

 small K))ichn<>iit"r;i.v, apparently judhi. On th: 4th a LithoroUctis 

 emerged from t'l/tisus trirlorns — L. tiijhurHa. On the 5th a small 

 .]. ta:iis was taken at St. Cassien. On the 6th there was a cold east 

 wind, nothing was on the wing, but I found a pupa of Sjiilotln/nis 

 altlwai', and a fullgrown larva of I'l/rani 'is atalanta whilst I heard of a 

 specimen of (t.cIc ipatra having been seen in Cannes, about a fortnight 

 previously, probably on that very warm February 20th. On March 

 7th there was a violent and very cold easterly gale and no sun, a day 

 as unpleasant as England can show in March, except when it adds 

 snow or sleet. One 1'. atalanta and one Pin-is rapa' were seen in a 

 shady corner. On the 6th some Sulcwihia cases were taken on elm- 

 trunks near Pegomas. One example had made a very gay case, with 

 two bands of yellow lichen. They appear to be rather more than half 

 grown conspiinatilla, or they might be Piploilnuia xniandla. 



