154 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
ornamental case of Lugduniella (which 
our readers will find figured on Plate 8 
of the new volume) ; one might as well 
compare a savage’s dress of untanned 
skins with a fashionable lady’s dress of 
silk, all braided and flounced. In the 
human species we an apt to fancy 
that the difference arises from the pro- 
gress of civilisation. 
Perhaps those who believe in the 
transmutation of species will he pre- 
pared to assure us that, in the course 
of ages, after hundreds of thousands of 
years, if we were to revisit the Brighton 
coast in pursuit of the larva of Binota- 
pennella, we should find that that species 
had developed itself into something else, 
and impelled by the progress of civili- 
sation and a desire for bettering itself, 
implanted in the breast of every Coleo- 
phora larva, had adapted a new fashion 
of case and entirely changed its habits. 
“ One might speculate,” remarks Owen, 
“ on the gradual modifiability of the indi- 
vidual ; on the tendency of certain va- 
rieties to survive local changes, and thus 
progressively diverge from an older type ; 
on the production and fertility of mon- 
strous offspring — but to what purpose ? 
Past experience of the chance aims of 
human fancy, unchecked and unguided 
by observed facts, show's how widely 
they have ever glanced away from the 
gold centre of truth.” 
Tiif, Entomologist’s Weekly Intel- 
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
R. T. — We presume you have obtained 
a dark variety of Typlice ; most of the 
Nonagrice have what one may term a 
black variety. Acrida viridissima. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidoptera. 
Variety of Apatura Iris . — A notice of 
the capture of a variety of A. Iris having 
appeared in No. 148 of the' Intelligencer,’ 
perhaps it may not be uninteresting to 
state that, during the seasons of 1857 
and 1858, three specimens of the same 
variety (named by Guenee Berw ) were 
taken in this neighbourhood. I w r as not 
without hope that it would again visit us 
in 1859, but I am sorry to add that not 
only has Iris been exceedingly rare this 
season, but the same has been the case 
with most spring-feeders in this locality. 
Seven specimens of Iris are all that have 
been netted here, to which may be added 
a single female, bred from a larva which 
I obtained after several hours’ beating ; 
an equal amount of labour in search of 
Pruni was repaid with a similar result ; 
altogether the small number of larvae 
that answered the click of the beating- 
stick was highly ominous of the futuie. — 
W. Sturgess, Kettering ; August 2. 
