THE SUBSTITUTE. 
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pression of approbation emanating 
from my brother entomologists 
would be in the highest degree 
gratifying and acceptable. 
In your letter you state that, in 
your opinion, a copy of Guenee’s 
work on European Lepidoptera 
would be a more appropriate tes- 
timonial than that originally sug- 
gested by the Rev. J. Johnson. I 
trust that Mr. Johnson will not 
deem me either ungracious or un- 
grateful when I say that I cor- 
dially concur in that opinion. 
With regard to your concluding 
proposal I must leave it entirely 
in your hands, at the same time 
requesting you to tender my sin- 
cere thanks to the (as you justly 
term him) universally respected 
President of the Entomological 
: Society, should he kindly consent 
I to undertake the office alluded to. 
Believe me, my dear Sir, 
Very sincerely yours, 
Joseph Greene. 
IE. Newman, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 
Testimonial to the Hon. J. 
Patient. 
It is proposed to present to the 
IHon.J. Patient,ofOil-cum-Honey, 
one pound weight of solid gold 
{pins, as a small but pointed testi- 
imonial of the value set upon his 
'services in the distribution of rare 
: foreign insects in Britain. It is 
ahought that no better lorm for 
'the expression of the o{)inion of 
Ihis entomological brethren could 
Ibe found than that of the instru- 
:ments by which so many victims 
vwere fixed ; and it is presumed 
ithat the gift will prove of eminent 
sservice to the distributor of such 
priceless beauties at so cheap a 
rate. All who wish thus to join in 
testifying their sense of such dis- 
interested exertions are requested 
to communicate their intention to 
R. E. Laxe and R. E. Pinne, 
Members of the Setting Com- 
mittee, Dupe Street, Cheetham. 
EXTRACTS. 
Notes on Noctu®: fkom 
Goenee’s Noctoelites. 
[Continued from p. 167. ] 
Caradrina. / 
This is one of the old genera on 
which all the world are agreed, 
though its characters are not 
easily defined. The larvae are 
short, and as it were heaped to- 
gether, always very full and of a 
firm consistence. Their spots are 
surmounted by hairs, very visible, 
stifi', short, and often curved in the 
opposite direction. Few larvae 
are so slow and so sluggish. They 
live concealed amongst the low 
leaves, squatted in dry leaves or 
even buried in the gravel. Their 
growth is slow: batched at the 
end of summer they live through 
the autumn and winter, and do 
not attain their full growth till the 
following spring. They feed 
throughout the winter, but little 
at a time, and only when the wea- 
ther is mild and the sky is clear. 
The perfect insects are gene- 
rally of a grey or testaceous 
colour. I have divided them into 
three groups. The first approxi- 
mates to Acosmelia by its broad 
shining wings, slender body, and 
geoinetriform aspect. The second 
has the body as robust as all the 
