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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
We cannot forbear giving the fol- 
lowing as a specimen of Donovan’s 
Magniloquent style. 
“Its beauty avails not the race of 
birds who pursue them from necessity 
or from an innate desire of cruelty and 
devastation ; and whilst happy in its 
apparent security ranging the plain 
to experience the pleasures of liberty, 
to banquet in the nectareous profu- 
sion of the vegetable kingdom or 
catch the dew drop from the humid 
air, to inspirit and refresh his parched 
system from the midday heat, he be- 
comes a dupe to his happiness, his 
pleasures at once sully, and he falls 
an unresisting victim into the devour- 
ing jaws of death.” 
Passing over the descriptions of 
Phalcena grossulariata we proceed to 
” Sphinx Filipendula-: 
Generic Character 
Sphinx. Antennae thickest in the 
middle. Wings when at rest deflexed 
fly slow, morning and evening only” 
[of course this is an error, as regards 
the Zygeenid ce Sfc.~\ 
The specific characters are too well 
known to be worth quoting here. 
“ P HAL/ENA EvONYMEI.I.A.” 
On this species Donovan remarks 
“ The caterpillars of the Pha. pattella 
and Evonymella are ever found in 
society, and many circumstances may 
be advanced to prove them cither var- 
ieties of each other or difference of sex 
only, although Linneus considered 
them as distinct species. They differ in 
colour, the caterpillars of one being 
light yellow brown, the other black 
and the upper wings of the Evonymella 
are less of a lead colour than those of 
the Padella. To gain information on 
this subject we this season put the 
eggs of sevaral females into different 
glasses ; the eggs of each female pro- 
duced both kinds of caterpillars, they 
became chrysalides and a number of 
each sort of the flies came forth. [This 
is of course erroneous; there being 
now 6 distinct species in the genus 
IIyponomeuta.~\ 
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