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and this is the first part to appear and the last to disappear; while as the lips of the 

 extreme tip are seen to he, as it were, sucked in, just like the finger of a glove being 

 turned, we discern the crimson colour of the inverted filament (through the serai- 

 transparency of the integuments) pass in succession down this whitish portion, and 

 then down the anal process, communicating (when finally at rest) a ruddy flush to the 

 dorsal side of this organ, which, but for the contained filament, would be of a pale 

 green studded with shining black spots. When the filament was extruded I touched 

 it with my finger, to try if any odour was given off from it, but none at all was per- 

 ceptible, either in the air or on my finger. The result would have been affirmation 

 in both cases, if it had been a Papilio larva. — P. H. G. 



Correction of an Error. — I have been from home two or three weeks. On looking 

 over the 'Zoologist' to-day, I find an awful blunder: page 5206, line 19, "males" 

 ought to be " females." Please correct this in your next number. — R. S. Edleston. 



Notodonta camelina double-brooded. — There is an old proverb, "Look twice before 

 you leap, and perhaps I had better think twice before calling in question the authority 

 of such men as Mr. H. Doubleday and Mr. E. Shepherd ; but the best of men are 

 sometimes mistaken, and I think they are. At page 5165 of the 'Zoologist' I find 

 both of them saying that the Notodonta; are not double-brooded; and Mr. Shepherd 

 says, speaking of N. ziczac, N. dromedarius, N. dictaea and N. dictaeoides, " I beg most 

 distinctly to deny that they are double-brooded." Now M. dictaea, 1 beg most distinctly 

 to assert, is double-brooded. With respect to the other three, I have not sufficiently 

 observed their habits to say one way or the other ; but, knowing a little of N. dictaea, 

 I feel confident that what I say is correct, and in which opinion I feel assured I shall 

 be backed by nearly, if not all, the Bristol collectors. We regularly look for the 

 insect in May and the last week in July : at both times we take them in some plenty 

 large and perfect; between those times we never take them. Now I wish to ask these 

 gentlemen, How is it that, if N. dictaea be not double-brooded, we find them appear 

 at two regularly stated times, and never between those times, if they are, as they say, 

 uncertain in their appearance? Facts are stubborn things. — Arthur Naish ; Brooklyn 

 Lodge, Ashley Hill, Bristol, August 11, 1856. 



Alteration of the name of Callimome flavipes : occurrence of Deiopeia pulchella in 

 Exeter, fyc. — Not being aware that the specific name of the new species of Callimome 

 described by me in the 'Zoologist' (Zool. 5074), had been previously used for a 

 species in the same genus, I therefore propose for it a new specific name, that is 

 Callimome Devoniensis, from the circumstance of the insect being first discovered in 

 Devonshire. T went out the other day for an insect-hunt: the day was very fine, but 

 an easterly wind was rather against us, which betimes blew rather cold ; and now, as 

 the entomological season is tolerably well advanced, I thought of obtaining something 

 worth having. We rambled along by the side of the Creedy, a. small river which 

 empties itself into the Exe some little distance above Exeter: on its flowery and 

 weedy banks I had thought to obtain a tolerably rich harvest, but was very much 

 disappointed. Cionus Scrophulariae was abundant in some plants of Scrophularia 

 aquatica ; we also obtained three species of Donacia on the leaves of the Iris Pseuda- 

 corus; but the best or rarest insect I saw for the day was Deiopeia pulchella, a single 

 specimen, which I brushed out of the herbage by the side of the Crediton Railway, 

 about half way between Crediton and Exeter, but by some uulucky aim I missed the 

 mark, and lost it: this piece of misfortune unnerved me for the rest of the day, and 1 

 got nothing else worth mentioning, except a single specimen of Lithosia rubricollis. 



