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the eyes are red : the rostrum is pale yellow, with a black tip : there is a darker green 

 spot on each side of the abdomen, at the base of the tubes, which are pale yellow, with 

 black tips, and about one-sixth of the length of the body : the legs are pale green and 

 rather long ; the tarsi and the tips of the tibiae are black. 



Found by Mr. Hardy near Newcastle, on Potentilla anserina, in the autumn. 



F. Walker. 

 September, 1848. 



(To be continued). 



Bats flying by Daylight — I find one or two notices in the ' Zoologist ' (see, for in- 

 stance, Zool. 6 and 35) of bats having been observed flying about in the day. I have 

 myself witnessed such an occurrence twice, and both times, I think, during the present 

 year ; viz., once at Clifton about May, and once at Weston-super-Mare in June. In 

 each case the bat was apparently large, and flew in circles, with considerable power of 

 wing, at a very great height from the ground. The days were peculiarly bright and 

 still, and the hour of observation, in the first instance, about two or three, — in the 

 other about one. Occasionally both individuals made short erratic swoops, or dodges 

 rather, in the air; and the Clifton one, I observed, was annoyed and " mobbed" (if 

 we can use such a term where the mob consisted only of one), for a short time, by a 

 small bird. The particular species of the bird I could not at that distance determine, 

 but I could see that it was very weak-winged and incapable of continued flight; and 

 was not at all surprised, therefore, to find it very speedily descending again to the 

 ground. As for the bat, who seemed utterly unconcerned about the hostile attentions 

 paid him, I continued watching his movements against the bright blue sky till my eyes 

 ached, and I finally left him careering about seemingly as fresh as ever. His conge- 

 ner at Weston I watched in the same way, till he flew so high as to be absolutely out 

 of sight. — W. S. Lewis; Trinity College, Cambridge, August 19, 1848. 



Fondness of the Cat for Nemophila insignis. — It is a fact which has been known for 

 a long time that the cat is very fond of some plants, such as the valerian and cat-mint, 

 but I am not aware that the Nemophila insignis has yet been noticed as one for which 

 puss has great favour. In my garden this season I had a fine clump of the Nemo- 

 phila, and I contemplated a fine display of its lovely caerulean flowers when the sea- 

 son came round ; but one morning when I paid my accustomed visit to my floral 

 favourites, I found the Nemophila beaten very much into the ground, and its leaves 

 covered with hairs that had undoubtedly been left there by puss, as her foot-prints 

 were most distinct in the soft ground around the beaten circle where the Nemophila 

 grew. I could not at all understand the reason of puss having abused my favourite 

 annual so much ; and so I softened the ground with a trowel, hoping that it would 

 not be again interfered with by the feline gentry. Next morning, however, they had 

 paid another visit, and again the ground was hard beaten, and the leaves of the plants 

 bore a profusion of hairs. I then began to think that there was something peculiar 

 about the roots of the plants, and dug round and round them in the hope of finding a 

 valerian root, or something of that kind ; but nothing to the purpose could be found. 

 I again dressed the border, and, for the protection of the plants, stuck in a garden-reel 



