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A connecting link between these two geneva (or it may be 

 said the counter)3art of the common ancestor of them both, 

 such assertions, as in other cases, being merely fanciful) 

 occurs in Sphyracephala, Say, of which Diopsis brevicornis, 

 a North-American species, is the type, and to it Diopsis 

 Hearseyanus may be added. Another species has been dis- 

 covered in North-Eastern Asia. I was first informed of it by 

 M. Fedlschenko ; and I afterwards saw it among other Amur- 

 land insects. There may be a fourth and undescribed species 

 of this genus from West Africa. It thus has a much wider 

 range than that of Diopsis, though it is composed of far fewer 

 species, and it is not less interesting than Diopsis and Achias, 

 though of smaller size, and with less development of the 

 peculiar characters. — Francis Walker. 



Entomological Notes, Captures, 8fc. 



Does Antiopa ever Emerge from the Pupa with a Wjdte 

 Border ? — To the question in your January number of the 

 'Entomologist,' " Does Antiopa ever emerge from the pupa 

 with a white border?" I would answer that in the Atlantic 

 district of the United States, the " spring variety," as it is 

 called, has always a white, or at least a very light-coloured 

 border. The summer variety has a border of deep brimstone- 

 yellow. I believe that in this district Antiopa generally 

 hybernates in the imago state, although such broods as do 

 not feed up till late in the fall undoubtedly pass the winter in 

 the pupa state. Perhaps it may be interesting to brother 

 entomologists at home, to know that Antiopa is one of our 

 earliest butterflies, appearing sometimes before the snow is 

 off the ground. — W. V. Andreus ; Room 4, No. 117, Broad- 

 way, New York, January 30, 1873. 



C. Hyale and Helice near Reading. — In 1870 I captured 

 two male Hyale, on the Oxon side of the Thames, and also 

 took one female on the Berks side. Last year (1872) I again 

 took one male in the same place vvhere 1 took the former 

 ones, and saw on the Great Western Railway bank a speci- 

 men of Helice, which 1 had the pleasure of chasing for two 

 miles, and then missing. 1 have never before heard of the 

 occurrence of either of these insects in the neighbourhood of 



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