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seems great doubt whether the Lithosidce are attracted by sugar or not. — E. 

 G. Baldwin, Albany House, Barnsbury Park, Feb. 8th., 1858. 



Do the JBombyces feed at sugar? — Upon this subject we beg to copy the 

 following from a letter with which we have been favoured by Mr. H. Doubleday. 

 There is certainly no anatomical reason why the Lithosiw should not feed, as 

 they have a spiral tongue, and the mouth is altogether more developed than 

 in the other genera of this division of Lepidoptera. The fact that they do 



feed is, we think, now clearly established. — Ed. "I have very frequently 



seen the Lithosice at sugar on the trunks of trees — complanula and griseola 

 in abundance, and miniata not unfrequently. I have also seen C. elpenor 

 hovering over sugar here; and Mr. English, who went to the fens to collect 

 insects for me, some years since, tells me that it was very plentiful there over 

 the sugar which he put out. I frequently used to sugar the trunks of some 

 young lime trees in the field adjoining our garden, and I have taken Cossus 

 ligniperda three or four times on these" trees at night; whether the sugar did 

 or did not attract them I cannot say; they were always running about the 

 trunk, but I never saw one at night on a tree that was not sugared, although 

 do doubt they might be found upon willows," 



J5omhyc.es at sugar. — I have been much interested in your papers in "The 

 Naturalist," with the detailed list of Lepidoptera occurring in Suffolk, which 

 would seem to be a land, entomologically, flowing with milk and honey. I 

 should think your L. helveola must have come to the tree on which your 

 gardener took him for the bona fide purpose of regaling himself on the "sugar." 

 I have repeatedly taken both G. rubricollis and L. griseola, the latter in ex- 

 treme profusion, at sugar in Cambridgeshire ; and with respect to C. ligniperda, 

 a friend of mine, Mr. Bostock, has, and on more than one occasion, taken both 

 it and Chcerocampa elpenor at sugar. I one evening took a fine L. strami- 

 neola on a spray of black-thorn not six inches from a sugared tree; and from 

 the stupid , manner in which he allowed himself to be easily boxed, I am 

 induced to believe that he had already paid a visit to the intoxicating sweets 

 close by him. — Mueeat A. Mathews, Baleigh, near Barnstable, February 1st., 

 1858. 



Cambridge Entomological Society. — The first Anniversary Meeting of this 

 Society was held at the Secretary's Booms, on the evening of Friday, Feb. 

 5th., 1858. The President, C. C. Babington, Esq., occupied the chair. After the 

 reading of the Minutes, and proposing the names of some new members, J. 

 Gr. Bonney, Esq. was elected by ballot a Corresponding Member of the Society. 

 The officers of the Society having resigned their respective posts, the same 

 officers were re-elected unanimously to hold the same positions as before, viz., 

 C. C. Babington, M.A., F.E.S., President; J. W. Dunning, B.A., M.E.S., F. 

 Barlow, M.E.S., and T. Brown, Vice-Presidents; A. F. Sealy, M.A., M.E.S., 

 Treasurer and Secretary. A vote of thanks to the several officers was then 

 carried unanimously, for their able conduct during the past year. The Presi- 

 dent then read his address on the occasion to the members. After a few words 

 of advice concerning the government of the Society, he reviewed the foundation 



