TRANSACTIONS OF THE B^NTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 339 



The writer of this paper appears to have been the dupe of 

 Cross's hoax, about the creating of animals ; a subject 

 which, hke Murphy's Weather Almanack, has been a perfect 

 bonne bouche for the literary vulgar. We do not say that 

 M. Turpin is a convert to this Promethean legerdemain, but 

 that he deems it a fit subject to treat with argument and re- 

 spectful inquiry. Cross is really a clever fellow, and he must 

 enjoy with infinite gusto the wonderings of such men as Buck- 

 land and Turpin. After treating the subject with such gravity, 

 the learned author should certainly have concluded by naming 

 the new creation Crossia BucHa ndi o(Turip\n. 



No. 15. — New Locality for Polyommatus Avion, recorded by the 

 Rev. W.T. Bree. 



My son took nine or ten specimens of this butterfly on the 

 14th, 15th, and 16th July last, in a rough, grassy pasture 

 field, near Barnwell Wold, near Oundle, in Northamptonshire : 

 they were in a rather faded condition. Pamphila Paniscus, and 

 Nemeohius Lucina were also flying in abundance. 



Art. XXXVII. — The Transactions of the Entomological 

 Society of London. Vol. II., Part I. London, 1837. 



1 . Some Account of the Habits of an East Indian species of 

 Butterfly^ belonging to the genus Thecla. By J. O. Westwood, 

 F.L.S., Sec. E.S.,&c. 



The larvae of this butterfly dwell in the interior of the 

 pomegranate, seven or eight in a single fruit. They feed on 

 the seeds and inner parts. Before the fall of the fruit is occa- 

 sioned by this attack, the larvae eat a hole in the shell, through 

 which they crawl to the fruit stalk, and spin a web, uniting 

 the fruit and its stalk, of sufficient strength to prevent the fall 

 of the former; after the fruit is thus secured, the larvae re- 

 enter it, in order to undergo their metamorphosis. The pupae 

 are attached to the inner walls of the pomegranate by the tail, 



