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that mass of illustrations and collateral remarks, which seem 

 completely to overwhelm one, when engaged on a subject like 

 the present ; and I have thus rendered my communication as 

 bare and unadorned a detail as I could possibly accomplish 

 consistent with clearness ; but, as a repetition of the contents 

 of this letter must be given in detail, as each segment comes 

 to be reviewed sepai'ately, I feel the less regret at leaving it 

 in its present very superficial and unfinished state, entreating 

 your scientific readers to make every allowance for one who 

 has had but little experience in these matters, and but little 

 leisure to render that experience available. 



The next letter will relate solely to the first segment or head 

 of insects. I am, &c. 



Edward Newman. 



Depfford, March 1, 1833. 



Art. XLVII. — Entomological Notes. By Edward Newman, 

 Esq., F.L.S. 



{Continued from page 288.) 



Class. — Lepidoptera. 



Natural Order. — Geometrites, ined. 



Genus. — Nyssia. Godart. 



Nyss. Tauaria. Fusco-grisea ; metathoracis tnargine ante- 



riori, lineaque centrali longitudinali nigris. $ 



General colour brown-gray ; mesothorax with its anterior margin 

 and a longitudinal central line forming together the letter T, 

 black : fore-wings tawny-gray transversely and irregularly waved 

 with dark brown ; exterior margin with a wide irregular band of 

 pale brown : ciliae of the same colour, having a row of black dots 

 internally : hind-wings pale brown with a black spot at the anal 

 angle. (Length ^ inch. ; breadth li inch.) 



Although the above description may probably suffice to dis- 

 tinguish this insect from its congeners, N. /lisjndaria and 

 N. pilosaria, I will call the reader's attention to its superiority 

 in size to the former of these, to the T on the mesothorax, 



