Mi TEtE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



the Bund lights are on a wide bare road, running along the sea-shore. 

 Towards dusk every evening a lot of fishing-boats collect near this part of 

 the Bund, awaiting the lighting of the lamps in order to commence fishing. 

 Lots of Japanese are also always to be seen fishing from the sea-wall there ; 

 so evidently the light attracts fishes as well as moths. — T. E. Sansom ; 

 Yokohama, Japan. 



Decoy foe Butterflies. — I have noticed with interest Mr. South 's 

 remarks under the above heading [ante, 173). In various parts of the East 

 I have found a dead OniitJioptera or Papilio an almost certain decoy, 

 provided, of course, others of the species are about. In Java and Selangor 

 (Malay Peninsula), when I caught a specimen too bad to keep, I always 

 placed it in a convenient position for catching any others it might attract. 

 Of course a good specimen could not be so treated, as in two minutes it 

 would be carried off by ants. Here, in Japan, where ants, &c., are not so 

 dangerous, I leave good specimens, also, for a few minutes, in conspicuous 

 positions as decoys. With Papilio maackii it is certain to attract others. 

 After half an hour or so the attraction seems to cease ; so I doubt if a 

 cabinet specimen of Apatura iris would be much use as a decoy. — 

 T. E. Sansom ; Yokohama, Japan. 



Bait for Lepidoptera. — I have tried, in Java and Selangor, both 

 decaying bananas and decaying pine-apple as bait for butterflies, but 

 without success. I have also added turpentine thereto, and likewise used 

 turpentine poured on to sand, stones, paper, grass, favourite trees, &c., but 

 in every case without success. It is but fair to add that turpentine alone 

 was only tried by me on about five occasions ; but, should I return again 

 to the tropics, I shall make further experiments with it. An almost 

 unfailing attraction in the tropics, and also here in the summer, — as the 

 heat just now almost equals that of the Straits, — is clean wet sand in the 

 bed of a stream, or even in a tiny brook, at the side of a road. In Selangor 

 I have seen lovely moving patches of colour, consisting of yellow Terias, 

 Catopsilia, scarlet Appias nero, orange Hebomoia glaucippe, and two or 

 three large Papilios, swaggering about amongst the smaller fry. Un- 

 fortunately, the number of good "specimens" resulting from such a find 

 is usually small. The other day — here, in Japan — 1 caught nine out of a 

 dozen Papilio maackii, but only two were in decent condition. Wet sand 

 has a great attraction for " blues." — T. E. Sansom. 



Hot Springs as an Attraction for Ornithoptera brookeana. — 

 In connection with the preceding note, it may be of interest to mention that 

 — from my own observations, and also from what others, both Europeans 

 and Malays, have told me — this insect is strictly confined to the immediate 

 neighbourhood of the numerous hot springs in Selangor, I believe the 

 water contains sulphur, but not to any great extent. The only specimens 

 of Papilio delessertii which I have caught or seen were settled on wet 

 pebbles in the bed of a stream of hot water. To come across Ornithoptera 

 brookeana, lazily flying about in such a spot, is a sight to be remembered. 

 — T. E. Sansom. 



Dwarf Ltc^na igarus. — Diminutive specimens of hycoina icarus 

 (cdexis) are by no means uncommon on the Downs near Eastbourne. 

 I took three specimens last month (one male and two females), varying 

 from 9 to 10 lines in expanse of wing. The Lycsenidse would appear to be 

 particularly liable to vary in size, for Mr. Cockerell, in his article on the 



