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carrying it this time successfully. Some few weeks 

 afterwards it was observed to be busy lining the upper 

 part of the chamber, with a dense texture of snowy 

 whiteness. Here it remained perfectly quiescent for 

 a fortnight, perhaps ; when all conjectures were solved 

 and doubts dispersed by the appearance one morn- 

 ing of about twenty small silvery bubbles, each 

 enveloping a ininute spider, "the very image of its 

 mother." These wandered about, resting chiefly on 

 the slight deposit adhering to the jar, about an inch 

 above the water. Some I think wandered away from 

 thence, seeking fresh fields and pastures new. 

 Others I transferred to various jars. She (we now 

 drop the it) left her chamber in a few days, appear- 

 ing to totally abandon it, also refusing food, scuttling 

 away when a fly was offered. Lately she being near 

 the surface, a blow fly was offered ; this she seized, 

 fastened it to some leaves, built a fresh chamber, and 

 dragged the fly to the mouth of it. I should recom- 

 mend vallisneria as the most suitable plant, for one 

 reason, that the habits of the creature can be most 

 easily observed. Another spider in a jar among 

 aiiacharis, myriophyllum, &c., remains quite shut up 

 and unsociable, having received no large food for the 

 three months it has been with me. The companions 

 of the other have been a newt, snails, small pond 

 leech, and entomostracse. I have seen no inter- 

 ference of either side. — Henry J. Bacon, 



Provincial Societies. — We have received vol. ii. 

 part 6 of the "Transactions of the Epping Forest 

 Naturalists' Field Club " (edited by the hon. secretary, 

 Mr. W. Cole), containing the following valuable 

 papers: "On the Origin and Distribution of the 

 British Flora," with an appendix on the river basins 

 of Essex as natural history provmces, by Professor 

 Boulger, F.L.S. ; " On the Land and Fresh-water 

 Mollusca of the District artund Colchester," by Henry 

 Laver, F.L.S. ; " The Mammalia of Essex " (by the 

 same author) ; "The Galls of Essex " (with 50 wood- 

 cuts), by E. A. Fitch, F.L.S.; " Preliminary list of the 

 Hymenomycetal Fungi of Epping Forest," by Dr. M. 

 C. Cooke and Jas. L. English, also the " Transactions 

 of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society" 

 (vol. iii. part 3), containing the Address of the Presi- 

 dent (Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun. F.Z.S.), and the follow- 

 ing papers : "A Memoir of Dr. S. P. Woodward," 

 by H. B. Woodward, F.G.S. ; "The Noteworthy 

 Springs and Spas of Norfolk " (by the same author) ; 

 " Notes on Rare Tortricidae at Merton," by Lord 

 Walsingham ; "The Plumage of the Waxwing," by 

 Henry Stephenson, F.L.S. ; " Ornithological Notes 

 from Clay," by Frank Norgate ; " The Nesting of the 

 Hobby" (by the same writer); "The Lombardy 

 Poplar, and its Destruction in Norfolk," by H. D. 

 Geldart ; " Fauna and Flora of Norfolk," part ix., 

 Hymenoptera," by J. B. Bridgman ; "The Herring 

 Fishery of 1881," by T. Southwell, F.Z.S. ; " On the 

 Occurrence of Sabine's Gull," by H. Stephenson, 



F.L.S.; "Lists of Norfolk Naiadacere and Cha- 

 raceae," by Arthur Bennet, F.L.S. ; " On the Occur- 

 rence of the Grey Seal on the Norfolk Coast," by 

 Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., &c. "The Transactions 

 of the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Society" (1S81-82) contains papers of the Fauna and 

 Flora of West Cornwall; "The Wild Bees of the 

 Land's End District," by E. D. Marquand ; "The 

 Mosses of W. Cornwall," by William Curnow and by 

 John Ralfs ; " The Genus Euphrasia and its F'orms," 

 by John Ralfs ; " The Hepaticre of West Cornwall," 

 by William Curnow ; " The Garden Spider," by E. D. 

 Marquand ; " The Economy of the Common Squid," 

 by J. B. Magor, &c, "The Transactions of the 

 Eastbourne Natural History Society " (vol. i. part 2, 

 new series), is a great improvement on its predeces- 

 sors. We find (among others) the following papers : 

 " Some Peculiar Properties of the Aphis of the 

 Willow," by C. J. Midler ; " Notes on Mosses and 

 the Moss Flora of Eastbourne," by F. C. S. Roper, 

 F.L.S. ; " Butterflies," by J. H. A. Jenner ; " Plovers 

 and the Allied Species," by H. Nicholls, &c. " The 

 Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History 

 Society " (vol. ii. part 2), contains papers on " Methods 

 of Preventing Insect Injury," by Eleanor A. Ormerod : 

 "Isaac Walton and the River Lea," by R. B. Croft ; 

 "The Gale of the 14th of October, 1881," by Rev. 

 C. W. Harvey ; " The Migrations of Birds," by J. E. 

 Littleboy; "The President's Address" (George 

 Rooper, F.Z.S.), &c. "The Proceedings of the 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club " (series ii. vol. ii. 

 part i), always gives copious reports of the excursions 

 made during the summer months to places of interest. 

 In addition to these we have abstracts of papers on 

 " The Boulder Clay of the North-East of Ireland," 

 by S. A. Stewart ; " Glacial Notes among the English 

 Lakes," by F. W. Lockwood ; " Carnivorous Plants," 

 by W. H. Phillips. The excellent address of the 

 President (Mr. William Gray, M.R.I.A.) is published 

 very fully. 



Pachynobia hyperborea. — I was disappointed 

 at not seeing any reference in Mr. Swinton's paper 

 (p. 172 of Science-Gossip), to the moth (fig. 119) 

 figured there in connection with Scarbury. I do 

 not find Pachynobia hyperborea in Newman's Moths. 

 A few years ago I bred a moth from a caterpillar 

 found feeding on Arctostaphylos Uva-jirsi. Perhaps 

 Mr. Swinton would kindly say whether his moth 

 lives upon the same plant. — J. A. Osbo7-ne, M.D, 



Insects Injurious to Forest and Shade 

 Trees, — This is the title of Bulletin No, 7, pub- 

 lished by the United States Government and written 

 by the eminent entomologist. A, S. Packard, jun., 

 M.D. It is copiously illustrated by figures of all 

 the predatory insects, in their different stages of 

 development, &c., so that this work is eminently 

 valuable to foresters and horticulturists. 



