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from Mr. Quintin Gurney. They were not molested at either place, 

 and I have no doubt passed on. 



May I correct some mistakes I passed in my recent " Ornithological 

 Eeport for Norfolk"? On page 128, line 30, the word "France" 

 should be added ; on page 131, line 13 from bottom, " Eossitton " 

 should be " Eossitten," the ornithological migration station in the 

 Baltic ; and on page 123, " Farmer " should be " Farman." — J. H. 

 Gueney (Keswick Hall, Norwich). 



INSEGTA. 



An Undetermined Species of 

 Stick-Insect found in Devonshire. 

 — A short time ago Mrs. M. F. 

 Arbuthnot, of Fairlawn, Paignton^ 

 Devon, sent to the Natural History 

 Museum a species of the group 

 Phasmidce, which had been found 

 in her garden on a climbing rose. 

 She added : "A winged one found 

 has escaped." The winged insect 

 probably had no connection with 

 the specimen before me, as the 

 latter apparently belongs to the 

 apterous genus Macracantha, and 

 is possibly the female of the true 

 Bacillus geisovii of Kaup (Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 578), from New 

 Zealand, which is certainly distinct 

 from the insect described by Hutton 

 under that name, and subsequently 

 re-named by him Acanthoderus 

 suteri. The synonymy is given in 

 my ' Synonymic Catalogue of Or- 

 thoptera' (vol. i. p. 340). See also 

 Brunner von Wattenwyl and J. 

 Eedtenbacher, ' Die Insekten fami- 

 ne der Phasmiden ' (pp. 238, 239), 

 who also write the two species 

 under the name of Acanthoderus 

 geisovii. There is a defective speci- 

 men of another closely allied species 



