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specimens of Eudryas Siae. Johannis before we can feel that any 

 certainty in the matter has been secured. 



[I find, on reference to the "Clergy List," that Horsly-Down is a 

 parish of Southwark in Surrey, and that the church is named St. John's. 

 I have, therefore, no doubt that Walker named the insect after the church 

 where it was found. That Lepidoptera may become suffused, or altered 

 in coloration, by a voyage across the Atlantic is evident from the fact 

 that, out of ten pupae of Vannessa antiopa recently sent to Engiund by 

 Mr. Fletcher, no less than five turned to the remarkable variety V. Lint- 

 neri. It is very probable that the specimen of E. Stce. Johannis came 

 from the pupa of an E. grata transported in some way across the Atlan- 

 tic, 'i'he feminine termination " Stie" is very singular, — Ed. C. E.] 



PHLEGETHONTIUS 5-MACULATUS. 



As an illustration of how insects will at times survive what seem to 

 be the most unfavourable conditions, I may state that in October last 

 there was given to me a chrysalid of the Tomato Sphinx, P. qtiinquem.ac- 

 ulatus, Harris. Having no convenience for keeping it in a natural con- 

 dition, 1 took a bit of cotton batting and made a bed for it on the bottom 

 of my hatchery, which is a paste-board box with a gauze cover. The 

 location of the box is on top of a high book-case, hence it gets the full 

 benefit of the heat of the room during winter, which was sufficient to 

 mature some Platysamias by the loth of April. On the i6th of May 

 that pupa gave a well developed imago. It was between six and seven 

 o'clock p. m. when it emerged, and by half-past nine it was flying around 

 the box, so I put it in the cyanide bottle; but it was killed too soon, 

 for although the nervures were fully extended, and quite rigid, the mem- 

 branes for three-fourths of an inch at the points of the front wings had no 

 firmness to keep them apart, and they came together like the ribs of a 

 closed umbrella. Otherwise the specimen was perfect in every respect. 



J. Alston Moffat. 



