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this autuinn ; and as it is a rave 
moth you may like to publish the 
occurrence in ‘The Substitute.’ 
They came to sugar, mostly on 
damp nights. I did not know at 
first that they were saucia, but 
look them lor suffusa ; and as I 
knew stcffiisa to be very common 
I threw a good many of them 
away. — G. F. Mathews, Raleigh 
Home, Pilton, near Barnstaple; 
Deeember 26, 1856. 
iSpemnra con.s;;icwaria.— Though 
the piece of intelligence I have to 
announce comes rather late in the 
day, yet it was news to me only a 
week ago, and probably will prove 
so still to your readers. It is this: 
— Speranza eonspicuaria occurred 
plentifully in one locality near 
this place last season. Unfortu- 
nately I was from home at the 
time, and therefore remained in 
utter ignorance of this brilliant 
addition to our local list, till on 
looking over the captures of a 
small-boy entomologist last week 
T discovered half-a-dozen ruined 
specimens of this pretty insect. 
Afraid to trust my own eyes I 
submitted the best of the bad to 
Mr. Greene, who returns it to-day 
as a genuine Speranza eonspicu- 
aria. — Hugh A. Stowei.l, Fa- 
versham ; January 9, 1857. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
What’s his Name P — I fear Mr. 
I Cooke has in this cotton and iron 
age forgotten the poetic of the 
] past, and having paper made from 
■straw and shavings never thought 
of the writing materials of Jupiter, 
nor recollected whereon his own 
career entomological was to be in- 
scribed, otherwise he could not 
have been in doubt as to the spel- 
ling of the name of his new 
Grammatophora. Of course Diph- 
thera is pure Greek ; and had Mr. 
C. looked into ■ Treitschke he 
would have seen its meaning, 
“ eine abgezogene und zubereitete 
Thierhaut,” as well as its classic 
allusion, for this author was evi- 
dently of a highly poetic turn, 
“ das Fell der Ziege Araalthea.” 
Ochsenheimer it is true printed it 
Diphtera,&ad gave it on Hiibner’s 
authority, but Hiibner spells it 
Diphtherd, and so Treitschke 
quotes it and defines the genus. M. 
Guenee calls the genus Diphtera, 
no doubt inadvertently, as he gives 
all the intervening authors as sy- 
nonymous, Mr. Cooke would do 
well to consider whether, as there 
is already a diphteroides” oh 
the Noctua lists, some other 
name would not be preferable. — 
Proh Pudob. 
Duplicates ■ and Desiderata . — 
I am just as unwilling to enter 
into a “ paper warfare” as “Suf- 
ferer” can be-, ‘but I certainly can- 
not allow his remarks (‘ Substi- 
tute,’ p. 137) '.to pass unnoticed. 
He accuses me of intimating that 
he is “ no gentleman.” This as- 
sertion I meet with a simple de- 
nial. Eemarking upon a line of 
conduct which, as he asserted, had 
been pursued towards him by cer- 
tain entomologists, “ Sufferer” 
observed, “ It is a disgrace to the 
entomologists of Great Britain.” 
In reply, I said, “ This is strong, 
nay, I think, unjustifiable and 
unwarrantable language. ” I 
think so still. To say that, in 
your opinion, a certain statement 
is unjustifiable and unwarrantable, 
is simply to say that, in your opi- 
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