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Show 916 MR. H.J. ELWES ON BUTTERFLIES. [Nov. 15, PYRGUS CYNAR,E, Ramb. Fn. And. t. viii. figs. 4, 5. Found by Radde on the Onon according to Bremer; but Dr. Staudinger has never seen Amur specimens. SYRICHTHUS MACULATUS, Br. & Grey, Schmett. ndrdl. China, p. 11. Pyrgus maculatus, Men. Cat. Mus. Petr. t. v. no. 5. P. sinicus, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xix. p. 96. The specimens from Shanghai, described by Mr. Butler as P. sinicus, differ somewhat from Amur specimens in having the outer band of spots on the hind wing indistinct or absent. A Japanese specimen is intermediate in these respects. 1 should have been inclined to look on it as a good local variety or species; but Dr. Staudinger thinks it only an aberration of S. maculatus. The latter is common in Amurland. SCELOTHRIX ZONA, Mab. Bull. Ent. Soc. Fr. 1875, p. ccxiv. Described from specimens collected by David at Pekin, which seem from the description very near S. maculatus. I have never seen this insect. NISONIADES TAGES, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 485. Found at Schilka and on the Amur by Radde (fide Bremer), and mentioned by Bremer from Pekin, but never seen from tbe Amur by Dr. Staudinger. N. MONTANUS, Brem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 31, t. xi. fig. 4. N. rusticanus, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. ix. p. 58 (1866). Specimens of this species from Askold, Japan, and Shanghai agree very well with each other. The female is distinguished by a pale band across the fore wing. November 29, 1881. Dr, A. Gunther, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. The following extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Dr. A. Frenzel, of Freiberg, Saxony :- " Being informed by m y friend Dr. Meyer, of Dresden, that he has mentioned in his communication on Eclectus riedeli that I have been endeavouring for some time to induce birds of this genus to breed in m y aviary, but without success until recently, I beg to state that since the 31st of October a young Eclectus (or young Eclecti) have been living in m y aviary. I cannot decide whether there is only one or two, because the breeding-box is fastened in such a way that I cannot get to it without disturbing the birds. " The parents are a green Eclectus poly chlorus and a red Eclectus grandis. The green one, the father, feeds the red one, the mother; and she, again, feeds the young. |