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(8) Incorrect substitution, transposition, or omission of letters. Ex. gr. : — 



Aema for Haema (neuter). 



Apaeiphe „ Apaetphe. 



DlCHHOOSYOTUS „ DlCHR003CYTUS. 



^lOEHiNua „ Aetoehinus. 



arcnicolus for arenicola (masc). 



merioptera „ .'' (no sense) j spissicornis, 



'jpalUcornis „ pallidicornis, Lrao. 



dolohratus „ dolahratus. 

 CoeimeI/^na is not only impossible as a compound, but the adjective is in the 

 wrong gender, for KoEis is masc. ^Eliodes should be jElioides : the termination 

 -ODES means "full of;" similarity is expressed by -oidbs. Tinioephaltts involyes a 

 verb this time in the present infinitive (teste Fieber), and mutilated : the correct form 

 vrould be Cephalotenes or Cephalotonus. Emblethis is an unusual participle, 

 but may stand; it is masculine; the right word would have been Embolimus. 

 PiONOSOMUS is a soloecism ; for pion belongs to a class of adjectives never com- 

 pounded : it should be PiosoMtrs, from the alternative form PioS. CoiiiooOEiS has 

 no meaning as spelt, and cannot be corrected. Deeephtsia is trebly wrong : (1) the 

 subject is misplaced ; (2) the words are not connected by the letter O ; and (3) the 

 termination is from a verbal inflexion instead of a root. CoElXA and Coeisa, being 

 fantasias on the word KoEiB, may be spelt according to taste. 



I have taken the trouble to rake together this rubbish, in hopes of preventing 

 some of it at least from returning to disfigure our books. I shall be well pleased with 

 even the most partial success. 



I observe a "printer's error" in my communication on this subject in the last 

 No. of the Magazine, p. 260, 1. 8, where Cephalonomcea should be Cephalanomcea. — 

 T. A. Maeshall, Milford, April 8th, 1868. 



Vanessa Atalanta at light. — While searching for moths on the gas-lamps in 

 Love Lane, Lee, at about ten o'clock on the night of September 4th, 1867, I was 

 rather surprised to find a fine specimen of Y. Atalanta sitting on one of the glasses. 

 Twice when I drove it ofi" it returned, but ultimately settled on a tree at a short 

 distance, where I left it. 



I should like to know if it be a habit of this butterfly to come to light. — R. Adkin, 

 Blackheath, S.E. 



[Similar instances of butterflies coming to light have been recorded ; but they 

 must always be looked upon as accidental. In some cases the fact may be owing 

 to the creature having chosen the immediate vicinity of the light as a resting- 

 place. — Eds.] 



Vanessa Antiopa at Cambridge. — I have just come into possession of a fine 

 specimen of Vanessa Antiopa, taken in a garden in this neighbourhood last autumn. 

 — LiNN^us Gumming, Trinity College, Cambridge, 25th March, 1868. 



Pyrgus malvcB (alveolus) possibly not Irish. — I regret to find that I assumed too 

 hastily that all Mr. Fergus Smith's insects were collected in Galway. I now find 

 that H, quercama was taken by Mr. Smith himself in Queen's County ; and on making 

 further inquiries respecting P. MalvcB, I have ascertained that the specimen belongs 

 to Miss Nugent, who does not remember from whence she obtained the insect, and 

 does not think she took it herself. — W. F. Kikby, Dublin, April 3rc?. 



