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Dioctria celandica does not, I find, feed solely on Ic/ineu- 

 monidcB : I have this year seen more than one individual feeding 

 on D'iptera, but these were all immature. 



This letter will appear a little before Cheimatobia rupica 

 praria, therefore it will not be out of place for me to remark 

 that I have never found the female of this insect of an evening, 

 although that of C. brumata is very easy to be found, in com- 

 pany with the male, on any mild evening in December. But 

 in the morning early, two hours before sun-rise, it may be 

 found in abundance where the males are plentiful, i. e. during 

 January and February, on almost every whitethorn hedge. I 

 believe few entomologists to be aware that many autumnal moths 

 hybernate. Besides Scolioptert/x libatrix, I am sure that 

 Glcea polita, Calocampa exoleta, and Evthalia miata, hyber- 

 nate ; possibly many more do the same. 



It is now quite time that I ended this long epistle, but I 

 must first just tell you that I am not quite pleased with the com- 

 munications of Corderius Secundus. I do not so much com- 

 plain of his turning to ridicule my habit of quoting rather too 

 frequently from those poets, whose pages have delighted me from 

 my early years. I know well my failing ; and neither Corde- 

 rius, nor Padre Isla himself, were he to come to life again and 

 ridicule entomologists as severely as he did friars, could cure 

 me of this. I fear even 



Hoc siquis vitiutn poterit mihi demere, solus 

 Tantalea poterit tradere poma manu. 



Dolia virgineis idem ille repleverit urnis, 

 Ne tenera assiduo coila gravenlur aqua 



What I complain most of is, that Corderius endeavours to 

 identify me with writings in which I had no hand, and opinions 

 which I have never acknowledged, whilst some parts of the 

 colloquy contain so exactly my sentiments, that no one who 

 knows me could mistake the person for whom Erro is meant, 

 without its being stated also that Erro is Delta. Nevertheless, 

 be it known, that Delta and the abstractor of Straus Durckheim 

 are one and the same, and that Erro is the very image of that 

 person, a second self, more like than is my shadow ; but as to 

 Rusticus, now again appearing on the stage, I know him not, 



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