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indicated by Mr. Chapman, but if he will look into Doubleday's List, and 

 Stain ton's Manual, he will find in one Menthrasti, and in the other Lubriepeda ; 

 showing at all events, that our contributor has erred, if such a trifle can be 

 designated error, in company with modern entomological authorities. — Ed.] 



Lasiocampa callunce, — In taking up the last number of "The Naturalist," 

 I find that Mr. Chapman states Callunce to be a variety of Quercus, and am 

 very sorry he has not given us some proof of this. He only states that the 

 larva when young is quite different, but he wishes to see a distinction of 

 character in the perfect state. This he states he has never been able to do. 

 From this I should conclude that he must have examined all specimens of 

 Quercus or Callunce, for the difference is very great. First, both males and 

 females are larger, and of a different colour. The spot on the wing of the 

 female of Callunce is larger, and the band on the male is broader and runs 

 up the nerves of the wings, quite different from Quercus. A description was 

 given some years back in the "Zoologist," by the late Richard Weaver; he 

 wrote to me when in Scotland last season, to notice this species, and to 

 make some observations on them, to prove whether they were a species or 

 not. I did so, and recorded my notes in the "Zoologist" two or three months 

 back; but such is the uncertainty of human life that these observations poor 

 Weaver never saw. That Callunce is not a Scotch variety, is proved by the 

 species having been captured in England in several different places, but always 

 in low wet places, as in Scotland. I wish Mr. Chapman, or some other 

 northern entomologist, would be so kind as to send me up a virgin female 

 of Callunce, to see if I could attract any males of Quercus. I failed in this 

 once, but should like to try again. — H. J. Harding, 1, York Street, Church 

 Street, Shoreditch. 



Capture of Deilephila livornica near Exeter.— The capture of Deilephila 

 livornica not being of common occurrence, particularly in the month of April, 

 it may be worth recording that on the 20th. instant, a male specimen of 

 this insect was taken at rest on the ground, in a garden near my house, and 

 is at present on my setting-board. — H. Dorville, Alphington, near Exeter, 

 April 22nd., 1858. 



The First Fly of the Season. — As I drove to Louth on Wednesday last, 

 in the parish of Elkington, I saw a beautiful specimen of G. rhamni, 

 (Brimstone Butterfly,) a male, though snow was still remaining in many 

 places in the woods. — R. P. Alington, Swinhope, March 19th., 1858. 



SYSTEMA NATURE 



BY THE KEY. F. 0. MORRIS. 

 ( Continued from page 65.) 



Phascogale murina, Waterh. Schinz. 

 Phascogale minima, Temm. Cuv. Schinz. 



Dasyurus minimus, Geoff. Schreb. 



Desm. Fisch, 



Phascogale albipes, Waterh. Schinz. 

 Phascogale apicalis, Gray. Schinz. 

 Phascogale leucopus, Gray. Schinz. 



