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was usually in a most profuse perspiration, with scores of butterflies 

 around me ; nor have I ever read or heard of anything like it.* 

 In reply to my brother-in-law's letter I wrote and told him how 

 interesting his account was, and begged him to try and send me 

 further particulars. His answer reached me a short time ago, so that - 

 I am able to add a few more notes : " The ' Purple Emperors ' 

 (Apatura laurentia, Godt.) were not sitting on me in ones or twos, 

 but at one time I must have had a dozen, and they were so tame 

 that we had what we called a 'pet' one. Several times we caught it 

 between our fingers and thumbs and threw it up into the air, but 

 it always came back. . . . They were a perfect nuisance to one — they 

 alighted all over one's face and hands and arms, and sucked up our 

 perspiration. They seemed to prefer T — 's to mine, though they 

 were at times like mosquitoes buzzing and settling on me, and kept 

 me busy brushing and waving them off. I found that the butterflies 

 were also attracted by the ' droppings ' of tapir, or ' carpincho,' in a 

 clearance of the forest, and were swarming over the dirt." In a later 

 letter my brother-in-law writes, in reply to queries from me: "As 

 regards scent, sometimes we rubbed ' citronella ' on our hands and 

 necks as an anti-midge protection. It is supposed to keep insects 

 away, but I do not think it attracted the butterflies, as they settled 

 oh face and clothes as well." I am indebted to Mr. N. D. Eiley, 

 of the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), for kindly giving me the names 

 of the insects. Of course it was only the butterflies that were 

 attracted in the way described ; the moths were obtained otherwise. 

 Danainse : Ituna ilione, Gram. Satyrinse : Euptychia hermes, Fabr. ; 

 Pedaliodes phanias, Hew. Brassohnae: Opsiphanes invirae, Hiibn. 

 Nymphalinse : Goloenis julia, Fabr. ; Hypanartia hike, Fabr. ; Dyna- 

 mine tithia, Hiibn. ; Catagramma candrena, Godt., and G. pygcis, 

 Godt. ; Marpesia neleus, Sulz. ; Siproeta trayja, Hiibn. ; Adelpha 

 cy therm aca, Friihst. ; Apatura laurentia, Godt. ; Anaea memphis, 

 Feld. Pierinee : Pieris mandela, Feld. Papilioninse : Papilio anchi- 

 siades, Esp.; Papilio torquatus, Cram. Syntomidae: Eurotapicta, H.S. 

 Saturnidse: Hyperchiria, sp. Geornetridse : Heterusia quadriplicaria, 

 Hiibn. — G. F. Mathew ; Dovercourt, Essex. 



The Farn Collection: Second and Third Days' Sale.— The 

 sales of the remaining portions of this well-known collection, which 

 were held at Stevens's Eooms on March 14th and April 4th, were again 

 well attended, and although it was sometimes difficult to place long 

 series of some of the commoner species even at five or six shillings, 

 anything " at all out of the ordinary " easily found buyers, and often 

 at very good prices. Included in the two days' sales there were 

 twenty- six specimens of Ghrysophanus dispar, of which the best 

 easily made £10 to £13, grading clown to £5 or £6 for those having 

 less satisfactory condition and data, while an exceptional specimen 

 with golden margins ran up to £17 10s. ; one pupa skin was sold for 

 6s., but another failed to find a buyer. Nice series of about fifty 

 Goanonympha typhon (davus) made £2 2s. to £4 ; a lot of fifty Erebia 

 aethiops (blandina), including two or three aberrational forms, 55s. ; 

 one of eighteen Strymon pruni, including a broadly-banded form, 42s. : 

 * Several cases are on record. See 'Proc. Ent. Soc. London.'— Ed. 

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