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That he raised his nurse from the dead, 



That he expelled a devil from a cow, 



That he changed water into honey, 

 and the Scripture narratives — 



That water was changed into wine, 



That the sun stood still at Joshua's command. 



That Balaam's ass spoke Hebrew. 



The coast-line of Wicklow deserves more attention from 

 entomologists than it has yet obtained : many insects, not of 

 common occurrence elsewhere, are to be found here in 

 plenty; amongst them, Lencania liltoralis, Mamestra abjecta 

 and furva, Luperina Caespitis, Agrotis praecox. That very local 

 shrub, Hippophae rhamnoides, the food-plant of Deilephila 

 Hippophae, grows in profusion on the shore at Coasttown. 

 Mr. Stainton remarks, in the 'Manual,' that '* Deilephila Hip- 

 pophaes is a probable British species which should be looked 

 for on the south coast, where its food-plant, the sea buck- 

 thorn, grows; {he green larva with a pink horn is said to 

 feed in June and July, and again in September and October." 

 So far the search for the insect has been unsuccessful, but 

 my friend Mr. More, of the Royal Dublin Society, who dis- 

 covered this station for the plant, has observed the leaves to 

 be much eaten by some unknown larvae. 



Edwin Biechall. 

 Newlay, April 15, 1870. 



A List of the Lepidoptera collected by J. K. Lord, Esq., 

 in Egypt, along the African Shore of the Red Sea, 

 and in Arabia; with Descriptions of the Species new 

 to Science, by F. Walker, Esq., F.L.S., G.S., &c. 



(Continued from p. 57.) 



(For localities in which insects were collected by Mr. 

 Lord, see page 48.) 



It is not probable that the species of Lepidoptera Hetero- 

 cera are numerous in these regions. The new species here 

 described are not remarkable in character, and the specimens 

 of them are somewhat worn. A few of the species are Euro- 

 pean, others are natives of S. Africa or of Hindostan, and 



