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foreign origin, palmed upon him as indigenous; he has no 

 knowledge of the place or time of their capture. 



In conclusion, 1 would strongly recommend such of your 

 entomological readers as may have the opportunity, to pay a 

 personal visit to the Birmingham museum, which, if I mistake 

 not, will afford them a considerable treat. Mr. Weaver de- 

 serves well of the scientific world and the public at large; 

 and I sincerely hope that his enterprising spirit will meet with 

 its due reward Yours, &c. — W, T. Bree, Allesley Rectory^ 

 Julyll. 1832. 



Names of Vanessa, urCiccE and polychlbros erroneously applied. 

 — At p. 574'. there is an error which should be corrected, viz. 

 " the tortoise-shell butterfly (Polychlorosurticas)," and again, 

 " a full-sized Polychloros urticae." I suppose the writer 

 means Vanessa urticae, which is the small tortoise-shell but- 

 terfly, as Vanessa polychloros is the large one. " Polychloros 

 urticae," therefore, is nonsense, unless (which \hope\s not the 

 case) these two insects are new christened by the generic name of 

 (Polychloros. — W. T, Bree. Allesley Rectory^ August 21. 1823. 

 f'^ Hermaphrodite Argyrmis Pdphio.. — Sir, The notices of 

 hermaphrodite insects, in Vol. IV. p. 150. 434., induce me 

 to mention that I last year took a specimen of Argynnis 

 Paphia, the right wing of which was marked like that of the 

 male, and its left wing like that of the female. Yours, &c. — 

 Thomas Allis. York, 27M oftheStk month {Ju?ie), 1832. 

 ;vv. The Brimstone^oloured Butterfly {Gonepteryx rhamni\ 

 jUates of its appearing, (p. 595.) — This was once seen by 

 Mr. Bree, on the wing, on the tenth day of March, 1826, 

 see p. 595. This year it was seen here on the 1 8th of 

 January, and again on March 8th. In 1831 I saw it with 

 the early white butterfly (Pontia Charicl^a, on Feb. 10. In 

 1800, my first notice of it was on March 24. — Sigma. Saf- 

 fron Walden, Sept. 25. 1832. lo iter c^i no ; 



Tortrix viriddna (p. 670.) 'hi S^ron Walden. — We have 

 had here, this season,, great numbers of the Tortrix viridan^, 

 but they have not committed such extensive depredations as 

 mentioned by your correspondent, C. P., p. 670., so far as I 

 have noticed. — Id. [See Haworth's Lepidopt. Brit. — J. D.] 



Corollas perforated by Bees. (p. 86.) — On the ^8th of June, 

 1832, I witnessed in the horn-shaped nectaries of the blos- 

 soms of heartsease, that most of them had a small circular 

 hole bitten out of them near the extremity where the nectar is 

 lodged ; and, early in June, I also noticed that the horn-shaped 

 nectariferous petals of the columbine had been very generally 

 perforated as Dr. Withering has observed them to be, as 

 stated p. 86. — J. D. 



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