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in this locality, I find Actaeon is not named. — W. G. Col- 

 bourne ; Bridge Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, January 1, 

 1872. 



Portunus longipes and Galathea strigosa in the stomach 

 of a Cod-Jish. — 1 have received a specimen of Portunus 

 longipes taken (with Galathea strigosa) from the stomach of 

 a cod, caught in Mount's Bay. The specimen is nearly 

 perfect, having only lost one joint from the third and fourth 

 right legs. The specimen was procured in the third week in 

 December last. — Thomas Cornish; Penzance, January 10, 

 1872. 



Insect Boxes for the Post. — I shall be obliged to any 

 reader of the ' Entomologist' who will inform me where I 

 can get boxes that are not likely to get broken in the post. 

 I have tried Cooke's postal-boxes, and have found they 

 generally travelled in safely ; but once or twice a box con- 

 taining rare insects has been smashed to pieces. — Samuel 

 Doncaster ; Broom Hall Park, Sheffield, January 17, 1872. 



I am like Mr. Doncaster. I have found nothing that will 

 withstand the sledge-hammer of post-office officials. 



Name -changing. — "It is evident that strictly speaking the 

 oldest name should have the authority of law; but to change 

 a name that entomologists have accepted for half a century 

 requires the most absolute validity of the reasons assigned. 

 Now, we all know that the figures and descriptions of the 

 older authors serve equally well for several closely-allied 

 species, and it is reasonable, where these fine distinctions 

 were not drawn, to apply the name, as entomologists have 

 done, to the species of most common occurrence in the 

 country where it was described, provided always that the 

 description itself presented no difficulties." — P. N. E. 



Geometra papilionaria. — No. 27 of the ' Entomologist's 

 Weekly Intelligencer' for 1857 has a communication from 

 Mr. R. H. Fremlin, dated February 17lh, in which he says, 

 writing of this species: — "I have taken, with the aid of a 

 friend, seven or eight larvae of this insect, during the last few 

 days, from the birch." I shall be much obliged to Mr. 

 Fremlin, should he see this note, or to any other ento- 

 mologist, for particulars as to the mode of procuring this 

 larva at this time of the year, when the birch is not in leaf. 

 Were the larvae beaten during the day, or taken by night 



