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terist carries no boxes, he carries only a phial with bruised 

 laurel leaves, and in this already sundry Harpalidce and 

 Stapkylinidce were wriggling their legs. Man is an inven- 

 tive animal ; when at a loss for a word he coins one, when at 

 a loss for an implement he uses something not original] v 

 destined for that purpose. Happily for my present subject, 

 Mr. Brewer was a smoker of tobacco, and carried a fusee- 

 box ; the clear-winged moth was placed as a curiosity in the 

 fusee-box and carried home. 



Now it so happened, that at this time, Mr. Douglas had 

 made out a visit for some davs to Mickleham, and beino; 

 there went over to lieigate to see Mr. Brewer. The con- 

 versation, of course, ran principally upon Coleoptera, but 

 Mr. Brewer, aware that his Lee correspondent was also a 

 devoted adherent of Lepidopterologv, placed the fusee-box 

 in his hand, inquiring if that was of any use to him, and so 

 Trochilium Chrysidiforme gladdened the eyes of a Lepi- 

 dopterist ! 



From that time the insect found itself duly honoured; it 

 had a special label attached to it, indicating its pedigree, and 

 was exhibited at the Meeting of the Entomological Society 

 of London, where it created a sensation. 



The insect is not new to Britain, but its authenticity as 

 British had been much questioned, and the name had been 

 erased from Mr. Doubleday's Catalogue, and from Mr. 

 Stephens's Museum Catalogue of British Lepidoptera. 



It was originally taken by Mr. Francillon in a thick 

 grove, and this specimen, recorded by Haworth, is in the 

 collection of Mr. Edwin Shepherd ; Mr. Curtis has also a 

 specimen taken by Mr. Leplastrier, near Dover. 



Mr. Barron, in the Zoologist, 1851, p. 3289, records the 

 capture of a specimen, in August, 1851, near Haslar Hospital. 



Mr. E. Brown, of Burton-on-Trent, has " had a specimen 

 in his collection for several years, from Lancashire." 



