Queries and Answers, &S 



gest whether they are not the nests of that black spider so often seen run- 

 ning about on the ground, and withwhich the wood 1 have mentioned above 

 abounded. I regret I have not s^ufficient knowledge of botany to enable me 

 to state the plants to which I observed them attached ; but they were on 

 the bilberry, and several others, but none on rushes.,^ I hope some of 

 your correspondent^ , will ,fayqur,ugvd^lji the.^^pie; Q(j;l^e;Sf)ider th^t ,t;hus 

 constructs suc^i a be^i|l?f^i ,ljabit^pij/(pr itj5,<iff3gr^,,, XoiiuSy ^^fi^Tt- J^F** 

 A. Sept. 1830. . .,...■ .,■ ., .. ;-,,; -Unill .,;//!,-, Mi liMf"- V. t. ,'1 , .■,..■,„:,,,; 

 Cdrabus nemoralis. — Sir, Your correspondent A.L. A. (Vol.JlJ[.,p.477.:). 

 has expressed a doubt whether 6'arabus nemoralis be a British, insect ;. I 

 beg leave to acquaint him that I have in my small collection a beetle which 

 I have always. regarded as one of the specie^: its body is black, its thorax 

 has violet-jcoloured margins, and the elytra are obscure co^jper-coloured, with 

 hollp'yv .dots in a ti'ij)le series. It was^.cangbt inpy garden; and so far from 

 its.b^irig.ij^re in,,I3ritain, as A. X-- A.^seepi^ to suspect, I considqr.it rather 

 coinjno9p,;, in, which opinion I jam .^upp^rted by the able entomologist' Sa- 



iw;?u*»fipris^%^? \wH^^mwn^^m'.h w^Wa^-^i^^^'^i Im^^kf^ 



Ql^p^y^jpnsj w^pn ,your ;Maga^ne, M^^if ^Jr^idy,ponlfijfiii,si^fiic^enf;Hanftw^?8H> 

 Eiiftii^jc,^. Morgan must be a very ypimg iieg^^nqr in eijtQuioliogy, 9i;)h,f} I>i^5 

 npt^t pr|9^ted..by your oft-repeatcd'invitatiiop.ltfiqtljinls. for x^ne'is seUj^w^i^: 

 w^t¥Pf9, a^hecarifithem ( Vol.I^,.,Pf47;Q,^,,^re^l^|;]^;p^tevpil|al;s pf t^^.p^rnTOQ^i, 

 wfeillQ,biit,ter^y ^ and the minute e^gsm^p j|iei^9,9iqi;is-f?^',pa?^si^f;^^hne(^nrt^v 

 p^pae,. which hixm fed (while ],aijvaj) upQif]rai>4,cqppi?t^!d^mur<^ithp^J>»^ 

 tcriqr of the caterpillar, and then burst ,^rtl>H0^1|iQf(.it^ bqi^^itO- become 

 p^pa), Mr. Morgan will further find, in ,p, 5,\ ,\ ayid '^^^^rvA s,(?hitipn )t^>hii 

 qncistion i the former of which communications, I thin}cj kM Y<^i|y/§vi^Prt5 

 th^t,be,Gquld never have read. — J.O. ll\ Sept. 183Q. 4-;,^// ^id'lo ',>at'iita 

 Gordiiy BeetleSy and Dj/tlcusfoimd h^tke Xnte.^tmes of a JFrogty— Sir,- fTiv^ 

 oth^r |d^y ^ caught -a common frog (i?»na icmporaria), which appearedvto 

 be in a sickly aUid; disabled state. On examination, I found its stp^iaqli,fi[lled 

 with l;beiGQrd,i!U'y pr,hair-worm,,two or three beetles (i>vicanu.s,Cetrvus), and- 

 a ^ges MiMt?^9^s^£fi§K^^tkh ^^o^t^fm^^ presented tfe ^ppear^nce 

 .r'v.nUyv.iiftsf mo-It rilTom hnu B;jiH-io«xj<i i)^'j-Kl ,. of »:^ieve, the: Gorvh? haying 

 -irKuiiKiiliifc n iiib')jrn^8u-a ^iqmojlc M brA t.-Pepetratcd its coats through- 

 .sw«(',uu)sXT .KnYY oj^t, more especiaUy at the 

 ^P^oi^ic extremity. The lap- 

 l^fndices luteae, Jiverj a^ 

 gjall-^ladder \vm-(?' in -an ,aC" 

 .^iye state of infljamjn^tion, 

 I being pei'f orated in a similar 

 manner.. That short part of 

 .. the, intestinal canai ^n*wer- 

 )ni£u i^S ^^ the jejununiy and.the 

 .jpfqum were also filled with 

 the remains of this extra- 

 uiov oi nm ',r ' :^^^^^^.-v^.^^^'^'- _,^^tji?iai-y meal, ai^^e-. aordi?, 

 '.o«.oi«A. ■^''AMi.wiJ HW^^^m^o-u I .(Apparently little ,? injured 

 'u; O'jneh.^ orii m ,:vjiJi. '^^^fcfrf^^o"-"^^'^ t'^^ action of the, sto- 

 .0^:-,! .tl .v^^BBL u(^?.:vP^PP-"V^^^ ^^as the more 

 4luir^-io-i3UH:^?.rAosi}hhxJil^^^k ^ ^^e bee- 



-i^ I /rniic «oinjq Tsdjo yd /Dnv^^ itles, wath the exception, of 

 <ji. oj Au (Mti ,q .HI .lot) .7/ '< . then- horny coverings, .were 

 cntir^ ;dissolved. Though the gastric juice oi the batrachian ordear is 

 of considerable solvent powei*, jet it exerts its influence but slowly on 

 living animals, injt^ny haying been foujf^tl^untlissolyedtind aliv^ a,t the end of 

 several days, I hiaye mysfelf seen a live ^arth-worm in tfee lower part of the 



