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had recorded it in his " Zoological Illustrations," or I should 

 have alluded to him with all the respect due to one of no little 

 knowledge in entomology, and who is justly regarded on the 

 continent as the first ornithologist of Great Britain. I may 

 just say, that I have more than once seen Castnia sitting with 

 its wings deflexed, and that I hope ere long to see it again, if 

 any are yet to be found in a land far dearer to me 



" in its darkness and showers, 



Than the rest of the world in its sunniest hours." 

 I am, Sir, 

 The Anonymous Reviewer of Sphinx V. 

 Hall, April 15, 1833. 



54. Ohservations on Mr Newmans Osteology, (Vid. ante, 

 p. 409.) — Sir, It was my wish to have made an observation or two 

 on Mr. Westwood's article (XLL); but, as I may give offence, 

 I shall confine myself to Mr. Newman's Osteology. I know 

 not how Mr. Newman can have made so great a mistake, as 

 to state that the anterior wings, or pseiidehjtra, in Strej^siji- 

 tera, were attached to the prothorax ; such certainly was the 

 opinion of Mr. Kirby and of M. Latreille, but / had the good 

 fortune to clear up the doubt by dissection, and in the three 

 genera I have published, it is distinctly stated in the letter- 

 press, that they are attached to the mesothorax ; Mr. New- 

 man has unfortunately referred to my genera Elenchns and 

 HaUctophagus, and I had not sufficient materials to illustrate 

 those interesting genera so fully as might have been wished ; 

 but if Mr. Newman will do me the favour to refer to the 

 genus Stylops, which I engraved myself that it might be accu- 

 rate, and published in August 1828, he will see the different 

 parts of the insect separated, and placed in their relative 

 positions ; and at figures D.9. and K. 9. the pseudelytra are 

 represented attached to the mesothorax. This being the only 

 insect of the order I have had an opportunity of fairly investi- 

 gating, any trifling errors in the other two genera must be 

 attributed to the want of materials for examination ; and I have 

 stated in my remarks upon Halictophagus (folio 433''), allud- 

 ing to the situation of the pseudelytra, " they are so placed 

 that, without dissecting the Stylops, it would be utterly im- 

 possible to ascertain to what part they w^ere attached." 



I am. Sir, yours, &c. John Curtis. 



Upper Charlotte Street, 2Zd of Aucjust, 1833. 



