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are much disposed to become greasy, 
and especially the Tort rices and Tinea 
whose larvoe are internal feeders, this 
natural decay seems greatly acceler- 
ated, and appears often to result from 
some internal process with which we 
are unacquainted, apart from actual 
injury. Now the remedy I would 
propose for this, is very simple, and 
of the easiest application. A very 
small quantity of liquid glue brushed 
over the injured part of the underside 
of the body, gives the insect, as it 
were, a new skin, and prevents the 
results of inward decay from spoiling 
the appearance of our collections. — 
Rev. Heney Bueney, Wavendon 
Rectory , Woburn, Beds. 
Random Notes. Papilio Vellida. 
Fab. is figured by Petiver who says it 
was taken at Hampstead by M r. 
Albin, and is also given by Haworth, 
who did not know the insect other- 
wise than in Petiver, and fancied it 
might be a hybrid. I suggested that 
as P. Vellida was found in the Isle of 
Amsterdam and also in Australia, (I 
have specimens too) which places 
were visited by Sir Joseph Banks and 
])r. Solander, — the latter gentleman 
living at Hampstead, might, as on 
his own shewing, have been said, by 
a misunderstanding, to have taken it 
at Hampstead. By the bye I have a 
book (Fabricius) which belonged to 
Dr. Solander, and contains his auto- 
graph. 
A curious thing occurred here once 
in the winter of 1858. A moth, I at 
first supposed, flew against a lamp in 
the evening. It proved to be Vanessa 
TJrticcc disturbed from its winter 
quarters by the heat of the room and 
the light from the lamp. 
I was told of a hybrid between V. 
TJrticce and Io taken in Wales with 
the wings intermediate in size and 
colour, — the ocellated spot like Io but 
very dull. I have a specimen of V. Io, 
and a second is known, without the 
ocellus, and with only a pale spot in 
its place. 
People are very apt to cry “ Pooh ! 
Pooh!” to whatever seems rather 
odd. and so they give up insects as 
unlikely to occur in Britain, without 
further trouble. Why may not Pet- 
iver’ s P. tessellata turn out* to be a 
good species as well as Lewin’s P. 
Rory las ? I have compared Petiver’ s 
figure with 11. Piety nna and II. 
Athalia and I think it comes nearest 
to the former. Insects disappear for 
several years (if not altogether ?) as 
well as plants, and who knows that 
M. Pictynna may not appear again. 
See, for instance, the now so called, 
“ very rare L. Acts,” — why this used 
to be the most common Blue we had 
here, but is now apparently extinct. 
I am told I had taken all the speci- 
mens, but I know several localities 
for it where I scarcely ever took a 
specimen, — and there it is equally ex- 
tinct as here, — also P. Machaon, P. 
Cratcegi, P. Sinapis, II. Galathea, 
and Semele, V. C-album (in great 
profusion formerly) and many others 
also now II. Pampliilus etc, are ap- 
parently entirely gone. J. C. Dale, 
Gian. Wootton, Sherborne, Porset. 
