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Ways oF LIMENITIS BREDOW!I.—Mrs. A. E. Bush sends from 
San Jose, Cal., the following account of the flight and habits of 
this beautiful butterfly : 
hey are warriors and seem to have a good deal of character. 
They alighted on the white or black oaks high above, and with the 
appearance of being on the alert, waited till a large yellow Papilio 
came in sight, when it was chased away, and Limenitis returne 
to his perch awaiting for the next fray. A smaller butterfly 
routed the Limenitis, however. They were shy of light colors. 
When I had on a light-colored dress I could not get near one, 
but with a brown dress they would alight on it, and about my 
feet. Throwing small pebbles, chips or rocks at them seemed to 
enrage them, and they would follow anything thrown at them 
back to the ground. A Grapta, on the contrary, was attracted by 
a white hat, and hovered around my head like a bee above the 
flowers, and would alight on the hat and on my hand, 
HABITS OF XYLOTRECHUS CONVERGENS.— The larva of this 
Longicorn beetle infests what we call thorn apple or red haw; 
comes to maturity in one year, and the imago makes its appear- 
ance about the 15th of June. I have taken it as late as July Ist. 
It kills the tree in one year after the egg is laid in the crevices of 
the bark. As soon as hatched the larva enters the wood, and 
hardly travels six inches. I am the only one here who has taken 
it so far; I have taken twenty out of a piece of wood three feet 
long.—. ¥ Myers, Ft. Madison, Ia., in letter to Dr. F. L. Le- 
Conte, 
An Aguatic Spuinx Larva.—In the same number of Psyche 
above referred to, is an interesting communication by Baron von 
Reitzenstein, of New Orleans, La., describing a sphinx larva be- 
longing to the genus Philampelus, which he found feeding on the 
floating Nymphza in the centre of a draining canal, the whole 
body, with exception of the thoracic segments, being submerged 
under water. The larve are described as swimming with great 
facility from one patch of plants to another. 
ANTHROPOLOGY.? 
Earty Man In Britrain.—The latest utterance upon this sub- 
ject is from the pen of the distinguished cave hunter, Prof. W. 
Boyd Dawkins, entitled, “ Early Man in Britain, and his place in 
the Tertiary Period,” published in London by Macmillan & Co. 
The subject is treated in the three-fold point of view of the geolo- 
gist, the prehistoric archzologist, and the historian. Beginning 
with the earliest’ period during which man is alleged to have 
made his appearance, the author passes downward through time, 
or, what is equivalent, upward through the geological record to 
the prehistoric iron age. The Tertiary period is divided into six 
1 Edited by Prof. Oris T. MAson, Columbian College, Washington, D, C. 
