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each other, in a way which it is not very easy to describe 

 accurately in words. I have seldom seen a more strongly 

 marked variety of any lepidopterous insect ; and yet any ento- 

 mologist acquainted with Limenitis Camilla would, I conceive, 

 at once, without hesitation, pronounce it no more than a 

 variety of that species. I am. Sir, yours, &c. — W, T, Bree, 

 Allesley Ilectory, June 14. 1832. 



Small Fishes are destroyed by other Insects, besides the 

 LarvcB of Dragon Flies as instanced p. 519. — In Vol. III. 

 p. 148., J. EUes describes the fact of a small fish being 

 killed by " the water beetle," to which it had been ex- 

 perimentally introduced in a basin of water. He remarks, 

 that, after the beetle had killed the fish, " it never left it till 

 it was a perfect skeleton, similar to numbers that he [Mr.El- 

 les's neighbour] had found." Another correspondent (B., 

 Coventry) has subsequently (Vol. IV. p. 476.) asked, of what 

 genus and species was this " water beetle ? " but the query at 

 present seems not to have met the eye of Mr. Elles. — J. Z). 



Five Specimens of Qicdda hcjematodes, captured in the New 

 Forest. — Sir, In July 1 826, while ranging in the New Forest, 

 Hants, between Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst, persevering 

 in my search after rare insects, I was delighted at length on 

 discovering a specimen of Cicada hasmatodes, resting on the 

 stem of the fern [Pteris aquilina]. The sun was shining at 

 the time, and the day was intensely hot. I had previously 

 been at a very great loss in what manner I should procure a 

 specimen of this scarce insect for my museum, — knowing that 

 it had been vigilantly sought after by the most diligent col- 

 lectors for many years, and that its history and manner of 

 secreting itself had never been recorded by naturalists. I 

 was, it is true, aware of the general" supposition, that it took 

 its flight by night, or in the dusk of the evening ; but this was 

 information more likely to mislead, than to guide me to the 

 discovery of what I so anxiously sought after. I have, never- 



