TIIE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST, 
85 
ted up lazily as I walked through 
them, alighting again bat a few yards 
in advance, and generally on a stem 
of grass, with its head downwards. 
This insect might turn up again in 
the South of England, if properly 
looked for in September. I took my 
specimen near Barnstaple, in a situ- 
tion very similar to that described 
above. G. E. Mathew, Devonport. 
E. Tripunctata (? J — I should not 
have deemed it necessary to notice 
the flat contradiction given to me in 
the paragraph signed “ W. Brest,” 
at page 64 of your last week’s number 
if that paragraph had beeu written 
in the spirit which alone should 
entitle a communication to the priv- 
ilege of admission into your columns. 
That the paragraph in question is not 
so entitled, will, I think become 
palpable enough on reference to my 
statement at page 55, the accuracy of 
which “ W. Prest” attempts to im- 
pugn. His effusion betrays the fol- 
lowing disqualifying characteristics : 
1st. — Selfishness, apparent in the 
palpable wish and sorry attempt to 
appropaiate to himself, and to deprive 
me of the small matter of credit 
appertaining to my having bred the 
insect on the 8 th. of March, whereas, 
“ Tripunctata (?) was bred as early as 
the middle of January by Mr. Hind, 
land a few days after by Me — (W. 
Prest)” Apparent also in denying 
that the insect was new to the district, 
having first apparently imposed upon 
himself the belief that I ‘ assert ’ 
that it was, which I do not (though 
after all, ho fails to shew that it was 
not ; for he does not venture to state 
where Mr. Allis took his Albipunctata. 
Unscrupulousness in publicly averring 
tnat I made an “assertion” which I 
did not make, seemingly for the mere 
purpose of flatly contradicting the 
assertion thus unjustly imputed to me 
Ignorance in being evidently incapable 
of appreciating the significance of the 
fact, which he himself mentions 
(and of which at the time I sent you 
my communication I was not cogni- 
zant or I should have noticed it) viz. 
“ That Mr. Allis took IT (what? 
Albipunctata or Tripunctata ?) several 
years ago, and it is in his collection 
UNDER THE NAME OF ALBIPUNCTATA,” 
which name given by Haworth to * it ’ 
before Mr. Allis took it “ several years 
ago,” must therefore take precedence 
of the name bestowed more recently, 
of which “W. Prest” seems to be 
also in happy ignorance. And lastly 
Presumption — in venturing in the 
face of all this to occupy your columns 
under such a pretence as that of sup' 
plying a correction where no error 
existed and not wflth any bonafide 
intention to convey any really useful 
information. 
My communication remains un- 
affected by “ W. Prest’ s,” hostile 
criticism; it is, I still “ believe,” the 
first “ notice ” (i. e. record — the sense 
in which 1 used the word “notice” 
and in which no doubt all your readers 
with one remarkable exception have 
understood it) “of the imago occur- 
ring near York.” T. J. Carrington, 
Clifton, York, 13. April 1863. 
