Dr. Heineken's Entomological Notices. 191 



in my suimise, he will, in all probability, regard this communication, 

 which, by the addition of novel and important evidence, tends more com- 

 pletely to establish his views, as forming an interesting supplement to his 

 paper. 



Additional observations on Mr. Yarrell's newly-described 

 SPECIES OF Swan. 



On the 28th of February, at half-past ten A. M., seventy-three Swans, 

 of the species recently described by W. Yarrell, Esq., as distinct from the 

 Hooper, and named by that distinguished naturalist Cygnits Bewickii, were 

 observed flying over Crumpsall in a south-easterly direction, at a con- 

 siderable elevation. They flew abreast, forming an extensive line, like 

 those seen on the 10th of December, 1829; like them too they were 

 mistaken for wild geese by most persons who saw them with whom I had 

 an opportunity of conversing on the subject, but their superior size, the 

 whiteness of their plumage, their black feet, easily distinguished as they 

 passed overhead, and their reiterated calls, which first directed my atten- 

 tion to them, were so strikingly characteristic, that skilful ornithologists 

 could not be deceived with regard to the genus to which they belonged. 



That these birds were not Hoopers may be safely inferred from their 

 great inferiority in point of size. Now the circumstance of the small 

 Swans associating together in large numbers, unaccompanied by Hoopers, 

 the only known species with which they coidd be confounded by 

 naturalists, and the difference, pointed out by Mr. Yarrell, in their inter- 

 nal structure, are facts which completely establish their specific dis- 

 tinctness. 



Art. XXX. Entomological Notices. By the late C. 

 Heineken, M.D., l^c. 



In the 1st vol. of the 2nd edition of the " Introduction to Entomology," 

 p. 361, it is stated that the female Lycosa "feeds her young until their 

 " first moult," and as it struck me that the difficulties of supplying with 



