. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. re. THE FIRST BUTTERFLY. One of tbe superstitions prevailing in Devonsbire is, that any individual neglecting to killthe first butterfly he may see for the season, will have ill-luck throughout the year. Thefollowing recent example is given by a young lady :— The other Sunday, as we were walkingto church, we met a man running at full speed, with his hat in one hand, and a stick in theother. As he passed us, he exclaimed, I shant hat em now, I blieve. He did notgive us time to inquire what he was so eagerly pursuing
. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. re. THE FIRST BUTTERFLY. One of tbe superstitions prevailing in Devonsbire is, that any individual neglecting to killthe first butterfly he may see for the season, will have ill-luck throughout the year. Thefollowing recent example is given by a young lady :— The other Sunday, as we were walkingto church, we met a man running at full speed, with his hat in one hand, and a stick in theother. As he passed us, he exclaimed, I shant hat em now, I blieve. He did notgive us time to inquire what he was so eagerly pursuing; but we presently overtook an oldman, whom we knew to be his father, and who being very infirm, at upwards of seventy,generally hobbled about by the aid of two sticks. Addressing me, he observed, My zin atook away wan a my sticks, miss, want be ebble to kill n now though, I believe. Killwhat ? said I. Why, tis a butterfly, miss, the furst heeth a zeed for the year ; and theyzay that a body will have cruel bad luck if a ditn en kill a furst a zeeth. —DorsetChronicle. 99 PLATE LXXIII. ON TWO SPECIES OF INCA FROM TROPICAL AMERICA. The Goliathideous Cetoniidas being (with a single anomalousexception) natives of Africa and India, we may, perhaps, bejustified in regarding the species of Inca which are natives oftropical America * as their natural geographical representatives,although they do not belong to the same portion of the respect to their maxillae, indeed, they form a decided group,having an elongated, cylindrical, toothless galea and simple mando;thus differing from the Trichiides, which have an obtuse coriaceousgalea, and from the Euchiridae of Burmeister, which have a den-tated galea. This author has very carefully illustrated the struc-ture of the trophi in Germars excellent Zeitschrift fur dieEntomologie (ii. tab. 2, f. 5—8, 18). INCA SOMMERI, 73, fig. 1 <£, 3 $. I. chalybceo-niger, supra opaeus, pronoto albido vittato et limbato, ely
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