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venture to broach any suggestions of my own, but give the 

 readers of the ' Entomologist' the benefit of another extract 

 from Mr. Greene's most useful book : — " Insert the pin 

 exactly in the centre of the thorax. The head of the pin 

 must slope a very liltle forwards towards the head of the 

 insect ; this will not be noticed when the moth is set. The 

 pin should be clear of the moth on the under side three- 

 eighths of an inch. It is of great importance that the pin 

 (the upper part of course) should not lean on either side." I 

 can add nothing to this good advice. I only say — follow 

 it strictly. — \_Rev.'\ P. H. Jennings; Longjield Rectory, 

 Gravesend, August 21, 1876. 



Erratum. — In the article, "Agrotis tritici and Agrotis 

 aquilina," in the August number of the 'Entomologist' 

 (Entom. ix. 169), owing to an unfortunate error the two 

 figures were transposed. Thus the figure named "Agrotis 

 tritici" should have been named "Agrotis aquilina," and 

 vice versa. — Ed. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Calllniorpha Hera. — I have lately taken here two or three 

 niolhs which seem different from any I have found in Great 

 Britain. Perhaps some of your readers who have foreign 

 insects may be able to give me the name through your 

 magazine. It is about the size of Chelonia villica or Calli- 

 morpha dominula. It seems to me a species of Arctia. — 

 H. C. Hodges ; Lannion, Bretagne, France, August 8, 1876. 



[The moth is Callimorpha Hera. It was figured in the 

 ' Entomologist,' volume vi., page 33 ; and a description is 

 there given of the larva and of the perfect insect. Other 

 information is also given, from which the following extracts 

 may be of interest : — " It is many years since Captain 

 Russell announced the capture of several specimens of Hera 

 in Wales. * * The announcement, however, like many others 

 to the same purport, was disregarded, I believe, from an 

 impression thai the larvae had been imported from the 

 Channel Islands. This has certainly been the case in some 

 instances; and therefore every instance of capture is open to 

 the suspicion, seeing that, like Clostera anachoreta, the 

 species has failed to establish a permanent footing in Britain." 

 "In 1855 Mr. J. J. Reeve took a very good specimen at 



