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heard that Deiopeia pulchella was met with in India. Each 
year, from 1852 to 1856, it was abundant in my garden at 
Wuzeerabad (a military station since abandoned), on the 
banks of the Chenab river, in the Punjab; where I also 
caught a goodly number of Sphinx Convolvuli, Cheerocampa 
Nerii, C. Celerio, and a remarkably large C. Elpenor.—[ Rev.) 
J. Cave- Browne ; Detling Vicarage, Maidstone. 
Correction of an Error.—In my communication in last 
month’s number (Entom. viii. 278), ‘‘Wales” should be 
Wells." —H. W. Livett. 
Answers to Correspondents. 
John Parker.—Are there Two Broods of Papilio Machaon 
in a Season?—It appears there are, from my experience 
this year. On July Ist I took, at Ranworth, several nearly 
full-fed larve of that beautiful butterfly, Papilio Machaon: 
they went into the pupa state in four days; and on the 19th, 
fifteen days afterwards, the perfect insect appeared.—J. P. 
[From personal experience I can give little additional 
information to that published at p. 152 of my ‘ British 
Butterflies. The butterfly continues to appear throughout 
the summer; and the larve, pupe and imago were not 
unfrequently found on the same day by those who hunt 
the fens assiduously. No trustworthy record has yet been 
made, showing that the late imagos are the children of the 
earlier specimens, This, however, appears to have been 
decidedly the opinion of Harris and Lewin. Lewin’s work 
was published just eighty years ago; and his statement is so 
explicit that it seems reliable. Later authors appear to have 
been mere copyists, and not to record the result of personal 
observation. I quote Lewin:—“The first brood of this 
butterfly appears on the wing in the middle of May. The 
female lays her eggs in ten or twelve days, and in a week’s 
time the young caterpillars come forth. In six or seven days 
they shift their first skin; about the end of June they change 
their skin for the fifth and last time; and in six or seven days 
they arrive at full growth. They then prepare for their 
approaching metamorphosis, by fixing themselves with a 
strong tie round the middle and by the tail. Ina day’s time 
the chrysalis is complete; and this superb butterfly comes 
