diff --git a/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl
index 5debe1cd2..97b5db2e1 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/project/module/middlewares.py.tmpl
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ class ${ProjectName}SpiderMiddleware(object):
         # Called when a spider or process_spider_input() method
         # (from other spider middleware) raises an exception.
 
-        # Should return either None or an iterable of Response, dict
+        # Should return either None or an iterable of Request, dict
         # or Item objects.
         pass