60 Short Communicatio?is : — 



lA Pupa of Bdmbyx mentMstri, Six Pupas of the O^phion 

 vinulte, and a Pupa of Bdmbi/a: vinulus, all found in company 

 mthin^ and bred from, the hard Cocoon of the Bombi/a: vinulus. 

 (IV. 267., V. 592., VI. 378.)] — In p. 378., I forgot to give 

 the extracts from Dr. Leach's and Mr. Kirby's letters about 

 the ophions and 56mbyx menthastri that were found in 

 company within the cocoon of ^ombyx vinulus. Mr. Kirby 

 says : — "I shall be glad to learn whether the pupa you found 

 in vinulus turns out lepidopterous, as it will furnish a new 

 circumstance in entomology, if it so turn out." (Dated May 22. 

 1820.) Dr. Leach says : — " Respecting the ichneumon, the 

 fact of six being found in one pupa, and a lepidopterous insect 

 within, is very curious, and quite new to me. I have found 

 one, frequently, in the form of pupa, within the perfect pupa 

 of a Cossus, which must have entered in form of egg deposited 

 by the parent." (Dated March 10. 1820.) The ^ombyx 

 menthastri bred June 8. 1820; but the ophions did not 

 appear till the 28th. The larva of ^ombyx vinulus I took at 

 Whitdesea Mere, July 24. 1819. Another person has said 

 there must be some mistake ; but I can assure him it is a fact, 

 although I cannot account for it. — J, C. Dale. Sept. 1833. 



An Instance of Variation in Shape in the Upper Wings of 

 two Males of the Lycce'^no. dispar. — Mr. Kirby has said, — 

 " Colour, I believe, often varies in Lepid6ptera, but I cannot 

 think that shape does." Now, I have taken two male speci- 

 mens of Lycae^na dispar, near Trundle Meer, in Hunts, in 

 which the outline varies much ; the upper wings of one being 

 long and acute, the upper wings of the other short and ob- 

 tuse; but in no other respect do they vary. [A sketch, which 

 accompanied this communication, exhibited a very obvious 

 degree of variation. Mr. Dale has drawn the outline of the 

 smaller within the outline of the larger.] The second dot 

 in the upper wings [exhibited in the sketch] always shows 

 more or less in Lycae^na dispar male, but, I believe, never in 

 L. Hippotho^ male. (Is it quite true that L. Hippotho^ is 

 British ?) Ediis« varies the same. — Id. 



Cordulia Curtis'n Dale, a Species hitherto undescribed, cha- 

 racterised by Mr. Dale. — On June 29. 1 820, I discovered a 

 new Cordulia on Parley Heath, Hampshire. It is one of the 

 finest insects I have ever found ; and I had proposed to name 

 it after a certain friend, but objection has been made to its 

 bearing his name, " he not being the captor." As it has 

 remained a nondescript up to this time, and is unnoticed, so 

 far as I can find out, by Vander Linden, Charpentier, and 

 other writers, I now venture to describe and name it after a 

 friend whom I saw capture it: and, as some jealousy has 



