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heard tliat Deiopeia pulchella was met with in India. Each 

 year, from 1852 to 1856, it was abundant in my garden at 

 Wuzeerabad (a military station since abandoned), on the 

 banks of the Chenab river, in the Punjab; where I also 

 caught a goodly number of Sphinx Convolvuli, Choerocampa 

 Nerii, C. Celerio, and a remarkably large C. Elpenor. — [Rev.] 

 J. Cave-Broivne ; Detling Vicarage, ATaidslone. 



Correction of an Error. — In my communication in last 

 month's number (Entom. viii. 278), "Wales" should be 

 "Wells."— iy. W. Livelt. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



John Parker. — Are there Tivo Broods of Papilio Machaon 

 in a Season?' — It appears there are, from my experience 

 this year. On July 1st I took, at Ranworth, several nearly 

 full-fed larvae of that beautiful butterfly, Papilio Machaon : 

 they went into the pupa state in four days; and on the 19th, 

 fifteen days afterwards, the perfect insect appeared. — J. P. 



[From personal experience I can give little additional 

 information to that published at p. 152 of my ' British 

 Butterflies.' The butterfly continues to appear throughout 

 the summer; and the larvae, pupae and imago were not 

 unfrequently found on the same day by those who hunt 

 the fens assiduously. No trustworthy record has yet been 

 made, showing that the late imagos are the children of the 

 earlier specimens, • This, however, appears to have been 

 decidedly the opinion of Harris and Lewin. Lewin's work 

 was published just eighty years ago; and his statement is so 

 explicit that it seems reliable. Later authors appear to have 

 been mere copyists, and not to record the result of personal 

 observation. I quote Lewin : — " The first brood of this 

 butterfly appears on the wing in the middle of May. The 

 female lays her eggs in ten or twelve days, and in a week's 

 time the young caterpillars come forth. In six or seven days 

 they shift their first skin ; about the end of June the}- change 

 their skiu for the fifth and last time; and in six or seven days 

 they arrive at full growth. They then prepare for their 

 approaching metamorphosis, b}-^ fixing themselves with a 

 strong tie round the middle and by the tail. In a day's time 

 the chrysalis is complete; and this superb butterfly comes 



