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Mr. Strecker also (loc. cit. p. 26) describes a specimen o'i Cecropia 

 with an extra primary, or rather the rudiment of one. Rather an in- 

 teresting and rare monstrosity! 



* 

 In the May No. of the "Correspondenzblatt des Entomologischen 

 Vereins 'Iris' zu Dresden", Mr. J. Rober describes a similar monstrosity 

 o{ Limenitis populi; the specimen is a (^, and has besides four normally 

 complete wings an additional left secondary, equal to a fragment con- 

 taining the first three veins. 



Mr. Hulbert writes us from New Britain Conn, that Anflu, }i<i) is 

 geniitia is not uncommon near that place on rocky hills. It flits with a 

 jerky motion, which renders it easily distinguishable from Pieris rapit 

 with which its white color might cause it to be confounded. 



Lt. T. L. Casey in his new location is not idle — he has sent us 

 some "Miscellaneous Notes'', from which we cull the following: 



The description of a somewhat singular deformity may be of some 

 interest. The specimen is one of a large series and of a species of 

 Eleodes, very common about San Francisco; it is remarkably uniform in 

 sculpture, being very smooth and polished with minute and sparse 

 punctuation. In this specimen, however, the left elytron is entirely cover- 

 ed with a regular series of small closely placed costce which are confused- 

 ly and conspicuously though minutely rugulose, and separated by well- 

 marked striae; the right elytron is of the normal smoothness. The con- 

 trast between the two is so great that it almost seems as if the left elytron 

 had been removed and another of exactly the same form but of a roughly 

 sculptured species had been substituted. 



I cannot account for this eccentricity except possibly that in bygone 

 ages the species was roughly sculptured, and that by reason of compar- 

 atively recent changes of condition and modification of surroundings it 

 has become smooth. The phenomenon could then be considered to be 

 the result of an effort on the part of nature to bring to light its pristine 

 features, in the same manner as in the human species, where as is well 

 known, characteristics of ancestors long since passed away, frequently 

 re-assert themselves in the children of after generations. 



Involuntary Movement after Death. 



A chicken jumping spasmodically about alter its head has been 

 severed and after actual death has taken place is a familiar sight to most 

 of us. These movements are simply the result of involuntary contract- 



