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examine the structure of the type, and, associating with it all 

 generic forms, save the useless multiplication of s^iionymes. 

 -^Arthur G. Btilier ; October 1, 1867. 



[This subject may safely be left here : further discussion 

 will not tend to elucidate it ; and entomological writers will 

 continue to do exactly as they please, whatever course may 

 be recommended to them. Thirty years have elapsed since 

 I printed my opinion, in Loudon's Magazine of Natural His- 

 tory,' that genera were purely artificial associations, and that 

 it is quite immaterial with what generic name a specific name 

 is associated. It is a matter of courtesy only, perhaps of con- 

 venience, that we should all use the same, but I would frankly 

 admit the right of Mr. Butler or anyone else to employ the 

 generic name in which he found most comfort and satisfaction 

 to himself. — Edward Newman.] 



Second Brood of Pyrameis Cardui. — The larvae of Pyra- 

 meis Cardui have appeared in this neighbourhood for the 

 second time this season. I have enclosed a few of the larvoe 

 in a box, thinking you may be interested in the appearance 

 of a second brood. Between the 26th of July and the 16th 

 of September I could not find a single larva. On the 16th 

 of September I took four dozen very small larvae, and on the 

 24th about three dozen, some of them full-fed. — W. West ; 

 6, Green Lane, Greenwich^ September 26, 1867. 



Acheronlia Atropos at Halifax. — I had a very fine speci- 

 men of Acherontia Atropos brought to me on Saturday, the 

 5th of October : it was found in All Soul's churchyard, by 

 Mrs. Holmes, and was laying on the grass as if quite be- 

 numbed with the cold (the preceding night had been very 

 frosty). I am not aware that there any potatoes growing 

 near where the moth was found, and it is the first instance 

 that I know of one being taken near here. — D. Baxendale ; 

 Akroydon, Halifax, October 9, 1867. 



Choerocampa Celerio at Taunton, — On the 17th of Sep- 

 tember I had brought me, by a boy, a specimen of the above- 

 named insect, which he had captured in a workshop in the 

 town, flying about the lights. It was very much damaged. 

 It is a rather singular circumstance that about two years ago 

 the same boy brought me a specimen of the same insect, and 

 which was recorded in the ' Entomologist' at the time. — 

 Wm. Bidgood : Museum, Taunton. 



