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surprise at this statement, Dr. Williams assures them that he 

 is quite certain that the species he captured was dispar (Hip- 

 pothoe). On the same day, the 7lh of June, Dr. Williams 

 took, in the same locality, specimens of Vanessa Anliopa and 

 Apatura Iris, captures quite as extraordinary at this date. 



15. Erastria venastula. — I wish to record the capture of the 

 above-named insect, on the 4th of July, in Epping Forest ; 

 it was flying, at dusk, over a spot nearly covered with the 

 common heath. — 11. W. Wright; Morland House, Hackney, 

 All ff If St 10, 1864. 



16. An, instance of Parasitism in which a Chrysalis oj" Che- 

 Ionia Caja produced a living Muth and Lance uf a Hynie- 

 nopterous Insect at the same time. — It is well known thai the 

 parasites on larvae usually kill them before the transformation 

 into pupee, or at anj' rate do not allow them to assume the 

 perfect state. M. Kiinckel has communicated to me a some- 

 what rare case, in which parasitism has permitted of the ap- 

 pearance of the imago. It occurred to a female of Chelonia 

 Caja, which made its appearance alive, but with the wings 

 crippled, at the same time that the parasitic larvae came out 

 of the chrysalis. Do facts of this kind perhaps explain cer- 

 tain abortions in the imago of Lepidoptera in the natural 

 state ? The parasites belonged here to the Hymenoptera, for 

 the larva showed traces of punctures, and the little cocoons 

 were found in the cocoon spun by the larva. Hobineau- 

 Desvoidy cites an analogous instance among the Diptera 

 (' Essai sur les Myodaires,' t. 2, 1830, p. 28). M. Carcel, he 

 writes, has seen Phryxe emerge from the imago of Sphinx. 

 Ligustri. — M. Maurice Girard, in the ' Annates de la So- 

 ci^ie Eniomologique de France^ 4me sevie, 4me tome, 1864, 

 premier trimestre. — ^ EntomologisCs Monthly Magazine.'' 



17. Duplicates. — I have a i'ew duplicates of the following 

 Lepidoptera, which I am anxious to give away ; the first ap- 

 plicants will have the choice of specimens ; residents in the 

 country will please to request their friends in London to call, 

 as 1 cannot send the specimens by post : — Agiotis luceruea 

 (good), A. Ashworthii (bad), A. valligera, A. Tritici, and As- 

 pilates strigillaria. Note. — I intend to insert similar offers 

 every month : the earliest applicants will always have the 

 preference. — Edward Newman ; 9, Devonshire Street, 

 Bishopsgate, August 2, 1864. 



