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with a view to record the capture in Mag. Nat. Hist., I resolved to apply to you for 

 assistance, but I did not like to run the risk of sending- Mr. Walhouse's example on a 

 journey, so I procured an avowedly foreign, and that a very miserable but unquestion- 

 ably identical, specimen for that purpose, and this foreign specimen was the one you 

 saw and not Mr. Walhouse's, the one described by me. I am a great stickler for exact 

 truth in all matters relating to Natural History, and should your most useful article 

 ever be reprinted I hope you will correct the mistake or at least omit the erroneous 

 statement. I will not quarrel wiih you for excluding A. Aphrodite from the British 

 list. The recorded capture of a single specimen of a North American insect in Eng- 

 land is scarcely sufficient to establish its claim as British ; and as to the fact of its 

 having been taken in Ufton Wood, that is a point which does not rest on my shoulders, 

 but solely on the authority of the Messrs. Walhome. — W. T. Bree ; Allesley Rectory, 

 December 12, 1861. 



[From this it would certainly appear that the actual specimen of A. Aphrodite 

 submitted to me to name, and figured in the ' Magazine of Natural History,' was not 

 taken in Great Britain at all, but was an " undoubtedly foreign one." I think this 

 ought to have been specified at the time, because I now presume that no competent 

 authority has pronounced on Mr. Walhouse's specimen, and consequently it falls to 

 the ground as a specimen of A. Aphrodite at all. The ' History of Butterflies' has 

 been reprinted with several valuable additions and corrections by Messrs. Doubleday 

 and Bond. — Edward Newman.'] 



Occurrence of Glcea erylhrocephala near Neivark. — I captured a very fine example 

 of Cerastis erythrocephala at sugar, on the 28th of October, in company with S. satel- 

 litia. Although I visited the same locality several previous and subsequent evenings 

 I was not successful in meeting with more. — W. P. Hutjield ; Neivark, December 21, 

 1861. 



Note on Pionea forficalis. — The larvae of this common garden pest answer, if I 

 mistake not, a query of Professor Westwood's, which appeared in the ' Entomologist's 

 Weekly Intelligencer ' (vol. i. p. 104), and ran as follows: — "Now that green peas 

 are coming in, it will be useful to examine the pods of any which have a suspicious 

 appearance, as they enclose the larva of a^lepidopterous insect, which gnaws the pea 

 inside. If any of your subscribers should be so fortunate (?) as to rind this larva 

 I should be very much obliged to them for a specimen, as well as for the name of the 

 perfect insect." To this question there appeared no reply at the lime, and probably 

 most who read it concluded at once that it referred to an Endopisa. However, two 

 years ago last spring my peas had the good fortune (?) to yield a large supply of these 

 interesting creatures: from them 1 bred a host of Pionea forficalis, but having un- 

 lortunaiely forgotten the Professor's duplicate request I can now only supply the latter 

 half of it. — Uugh A. Stowell ; Christ Church, Manghold, Isle of Man, December 12, 

 1861. 



Anthribus albinus and other Coleoptera at Folkstone. — T was fortunate enough to 

 obtain a specimen of Anthribus albinus during my stay at Folkstone this year. It was 

 found on some rotten stumps of trees in a field near Sugar-loaf Hill. The habits of 

 this insect seem peculiar, and its extreme sensitiveness to touch is remarkable. From 

 its strong resemblance to the colour of decayed wood it is difficult to find, and would 

 be passed over by any but entomological eyes. The season just closed was certainly 

 not favourable to insect life, and species common at Folkstone in former years were 

 with difficulty to be met with. Among other more abundant species I obtained the 



