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next question we have to consider is to which sense either of these two sets of organs 

 belongs ; whether the upper (internal) belongs to the auditory, and the lower (external) 

 to the olfactory, as I shall endeavour to prove, or vice vend, as maintained by Prof. 

 Milne-Edwards," &c. Dr. Fane on the Macroura, Mr. Huxley on the Stornapoda, and 

 this last, published in the ' Annals,' on the Brachyura, all by independent evidence sup- 

 port the idea of the external antenna being an olfactory organ, and therefore opposed to 

 the whole of the Continental writers, including Blainville, Edwards and Audouin, and 

 lately Von Siebold. The very interesting observations of Mr. Warington on the habits 

 of the living animal directly confirm the deductions, made by us from the structural 

 organization, that the external or second antenna is an organ of smell, and the in- 

 ternal or first antenna is an organ of hearing. I am sure that, in justice to me, you 

 will communicate this to the Entomological Society, and publish the same in your 

 next number, as correcting the mistake, in the Proceedings of the Entomological 

 Society, which is published in the ' Zoologist,' as quoting from my paper views opposite 

 to that which it contains. — C. Spence Bate ; Plymouth, January 8, 1856. 



[I have to express my sincere regret for the blunder which Mr. Spence Bate has 

 pointed out, and will take care that the requisite alteration be made before the paper 

 is reprinted in the ' Proceedings of the Entomological Society.' The reader, however, 

 will please to observe, that, however great the unintentional injury I have done to 

 Milne-Edwards and Mr. Spence Bate by the transposition of their clashing inferences, 

 still my position remlins intact : for my object is simply to show the difficulty which 

 ever attends the assigning of functions to organs which have no homologues in animals 

 with whose senses we are really acquainted. — Edward Newman^] 



Captures of Lepidoptera in North Wales. — Seeing Mr. Ashworth's list in the 

 ' Zoologist' for September, induces me to give another, having met with many 

 species not named in his list, collected in the months of July, August and September, 

 in the years 1853, 1854 and 1855, in the northern parts of Flintshire, Denbighshire and 

 Carnarvonshire. To give an entire list of all I met with would not be useful, as many 

 species common to most districts are to be met with in North Wales. A brief sum- 

 mary of those I have met with may not be out of place : of Papilionidae I met with 

 twenty. four species ; in Sphingidae I was less fortunate, having only met with four 

 species ; in Bombyces, twenty species ; in Noctuidae, one hundred species ; in Pyralida?, 

 twenty-one species; in Geometridae, seventy-six, one of which deserves particular 

 notice ; it is a species of Gnophos, allied to obscuraria, but much darker and larger 

 than the southern specimens : several persons who have seen them believe they are a 

 distinct species, but this remains yet to be proved. North Wales seems particularly 

 rich in Eupitheciae, having met with fourteen species myself; three other species 

 were shown to me by Mr. Weaver, when we met in Carnarvonshire, that I had not 

 met with. In Toi trices and Tineae I was less fortunate, probably owing to my col- 

 lecting in the later months of the summer. The following list is all I consider worth 

 recording: — 



Stilbia anomala. On wing at dusk. 



Luperina furva. At sugar. 



Leucania conigera. On flowers of ragwort. 



Spselotis praecox. Ditto. 



„ cataleuca. On sugar, and on wing at mid-day. 



