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Catocala nnpta: if we wish to have a natural classification of 

 LepidopLera, the Geometiae and Noctuae must meet at this 

 point, — E. Newman.] 



C<ni Butterjiies be Tamed to know the Hand that Feeds 

 them? — Mr. Guiney encourages me to write to you, as an 

 authority for habits of insects, to ask if it is true that butter- 

 flies can be tamed, and know the hand of those who feed them ? 

 This is asserted, I hear, as a fact in Lord L^^tton's ' Kenelm 

 Chillingley,' and those who have read this work in Germany 

 have applied to me to know the truth of the statement. — 

 Elizabeth de Bunsen ; Abbey Lodge, RegenVs Park, July 

 14, 1873. 



[I have not read the passage to which my correspondent 

 refers. My inclination is to discredit Lord Lytton's state- 

 ment; but I sincerely hope some of my readers will be able 

 to express an opinion more reliable than my own. — E. 

 Newman.] 



'File Reed Moth ? — I have within these few days found a 

 number of caterpillars and chrysalids in the stem of the 

 common reed or bulrush. The chrysalis does not exactly 

 answer to the description of the reed moth given in your 

 book of British Moths.' Will you kindly tell me what they 

 are, I being but a young beginner in Entomology ? — R. E. 

 Burt ; Flour Mills, Witchampton, Wimborne, Dorset, July 

 22, 1873. 



[The larvae have become pupae, and will probably emerge 

 as moths in a few days, when I can answer the question with 

 certainty ; at present I can only do so with a doubt. — E. 

 Newman^ 



Names of Lepidoptera. — The specimens sent by Mr. Was- 

 serman are Eupithecia pumilata and Phytometra aenea, 

 variety A of Guenee, ' Noctuelites,' vol. iii. p. 298. Guenee 

 observes that the purple tint has entirely disappeared in this 

 variety, and is replaced by a brown tint scarcely differing 

 from the ground coloui*. — Edward. Newman. 



Names of Lepidoptera. — Will you kindly name the enclosed 

 three species of Lepidoptera, which I cannot make out from 

 description. — IV. Thomas; Bay L^odge, Lingjield, East 

 Grin stead, July 4, 1873. 



[(1) Aglossa pinguinalis, (2) Acidalia heparata, (3) Acidalia 

 incauaria. In answer to Mr. Thomas's second letter, — the 



