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British Museum" is personal, and we should make ourselves 

 responsible for any pseudonymous attack. Ed.] 



2. Colias Electra, Lin. ; a British Insect. — Sir, By a com- 

 parison of the Colias Edusa of our cabinets with the Linnaean 

 description of Papilio Electra, in the Sy sterna Natures, p. 764, 

 and also with the specimens in the Linnaean cabinet, you will 

 find there is no doubt of their being the same insect ; and there- 

 fore the name Electra ought to be restored. Your's, truly, 



Edward Newman. 



3. Capture of Aspidiphorus orhiculatus . — Of this rare 

 insect, I captured two specimens in moss, from the edge of 

 our forest, on the road leading from this place to Chelmsford, 

 on the 17th of November last. No well-authenticated instance 

 of its capture having yet been made known, I beg you will 

 allow me to record my good fortune in the first number of your 

 Magazine. Edward Doubleday, Epping, July 27, 1832. 



4. Constables Miscellany. — No. LXXV. of Constable's 

 Miscellany, is entitled " The Book of Butterflies. Vol. I. By 

 Captain Thomas Brown, F. L. S. &c." When the second 

 volume is published, we shall notice the whole work in the 

 regular way : at present, we can merely call the attention of 

 our readers to the appearance of the first. 



5. New British Forms of Parasitic Hymenoptera. — Mr. 

 Westwood has transmitted us the characters of sixteen genera 

 of Hymenopterous Insects, comprising two families which he 

 has called, Chalcididce and Proctotrupidce. The paper is pub- 

 lished in the August number of the London and Edinburgh 

 Philosophical Magazine, p. 127, to which we refer our readers. 

 The characters appear to us to be clear and good ; and we 

 have on this account the more to regret that Mr. Westwood 

 has not given a finish to his undertaking, by a description of 

 each species ; as we have so often seen that genera thus pro- 

 posed fall to the ground, from the difficulty in ascertaining to 

 which particular genus any undescribed species is referable. 

 The pages of this Magazine will afford Mr. Westwood the means 

 of making his labours in Entomology better known. As to our- 

 selves, we have long been acquainted with Mr. W.'s zeal and 



