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under any circumstances, I conceive to be a degradation to 

 itself, and a departure from sound principle ; but that a Society, 

 which the Entomological Magazine has invariably advocated, 

 through good report and through evil report, should turn round 

 and attack its most faithful and most sincere friend, appears 

 to me the height of injustice, and renders it any thing rather 

 than an honour to be enrolled among its members. That the 

 Society should avail itself of a jocular article published in the 

 Entomological Magazine as the reason for the attack, makes 

 a weak cause weaker still. 



I am. Sir, your obedient servant, 

 Deptford. EdwARD NeWMAN. 



57. Notes on Deilephila Euphorbice. — Sir, When I pre- 

 sented the plates of Deilephila Euphorbice, you expressed a 

 wish for some particulars as to its localities, &c., although 

 these have already been given by Mr. Curtis and Mr. 

 Stephens. In the autumn of the year 1806, I first visited 

 the north of Devon ; and at the village of Instow, opposite 

 Appledon, the first caterpillar was brought me by a fisherman. 

 I forwarded it to the late Professor Fuseli, keeper of the 

 Royal Academy, &c., who considered it to be Spihinx Kcechlini; 

 indeed, it is very like that insect, as figured by his brother, 

 both in the larva and chrysalis state. See Plate 4, Fueshjs 

 Archives. The larva died without changing. I know not 

 if it may be considered foreign to my subject, if I here state, 

 that the late Mr. F. was an enthusiastic entomologist, and had 

 a fine collection of drawings and books of natural history, and 

 I recollect his once chiding me for apathy, and concluded by 

 saying, " When I was of your age, I often went, at two and 

 three o'clock in the morning, into the corn fields and woods to 

 collect for my brother, and many of the insects figured by him 

 were from my drawings." And to show you that it was not 

 quite lost in the decline of his life, I will here mention, that on 

 the conclusion of his last Lecture, and when descending 

 the rostrum, Mr. Cooper kindly offered his assistance, he said, 

 " I thank you ; O, is it you. Cooper ? Well, where is 

 Raddon ? Has he taken Atropos ?" He was then upwards of 

 eighty. Deilephila Euphorbia is a very difficult insect to 

 rear, as the following extract from a letter received from Mr. 

 Fuseli, dated December 26, 1815, will verify:— "Of the 



