216 THE QUKRIST. 



ounces. Tarrell has recorded one shot in Yorkshh-e, which vciglicd twenty -five ounces — the 

 Yorkshire birds usually are smaller than the Scotch. Pennant also mentions having heard of 

 one shot in Yorkshire, wliich weighed twenty-nine ounces. 



Mr. Fergusox, of Redcar, exhibited a specimen of the old English Black Rat, (Miis rattus,) 

 which he had captured lately at Stockton-on-Tees, where it appears this spCcies still exists in 

 some numbers. 



Mr. R. Cook, of Peel-Street, exhibited a curious leaf of the Common Spcar-mint, (Mentha 

 viridis,) in which, instead of being a single ordinary leaf, it was as though three leaves had 

 grown together. It was gathered in his garden in August last. 



Shortly after nine o'clock the members separated. 



E)itomological Society, Monthly Meeting, September \st., 1851. — J. 0. "W'estwood, Esq., 

 President, in the chair. 



Alfred Beaumont, Esq , of Huddersficld, was elected a member of this society. 



Mil. Adam White exhibited a crustacean, the Nymphon gijanteum of Goodsir, taken at the 

 depth of twenty fathoms off the Shetland coast. 



The President exhibited a moth reared from eggs, received from Mr. Parker, apparently 

 distinct from the true silk- worm moth; but of which the larva spun a fine kind of silk, 

 known in the north of China by the name of Tsatlee. 



The President exhibited bred specimens of Nepticula centifoliella, the larva of which mine the 

 leaves of the rose, and previous to their transformation quit the leaves, and foiTn remarkably 

 minute brown cocoons in the bracts of the leaves. 



Mr. Q-rant exhibited Peronea pcrmutann, Agrotis valligera, and Gelechia, all from Barnes- 

 common, being a new locality inland for species hitherto only taken on the coast. 



Mr. Smith exhibited a Bee new to Britam, the Bomhus arcticus of Dalil, lately taken by 

 Mr. White, at Lei-wick. 



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Is it believed that Ichneumons pierce insects in the pupa state, and what proof have we that 

 they do so.' — G. 



D. G. F. — Ether poured upon the head is a very effective mode of destroying the smaller 

 insects without injury to their colours: I have even killed the large dragon-fly in this manner. 

 Pounded laurel leaf in an air-tight box is another good method. — H. J. C, September 18th., 

 1851. 



Moorhen. — ^In confirmation of the statement of J. C, in "The Naturalist" of September, page 

 164, on the hatching of the Moorhen, previous to the last week in May or the beginning of 

 Jmie, I had a young Moorhen offered me in Surrey, on the 23rd. of May last, that had been 

 hatched at least a week. — Idem. 



Will a spider ever rob the web of a neighbour? Will he use the neighbour's web as well as 

 his own, if the neighbour himself have been destroyed or removed.!" — p. Q. Morris, Nafferton 

 Vicarage, Driffield, October 1st., 1851. 



In reply to the Qua;re of W. F. in "The Naturalist" for October, I have to say that water is 

 certainly not by any means necessary to the abode or the song of the Nightingale, for in Edlinton 

 wood, near Doncaster, these bh-ds abound, at least they did some years ago, though sadly thinned 

 by bird-catchers; and that wood is on the top of a little hill, with no water whatever m or 

 near it, unless it be some small pond for cattle. While speaking of the Nightingale, I have 

 also to observe that I believe York has hitherto been the farthest northern limit assigned to it; 

 but I plainly heard it, 'ni fallor,' about a mile south of Malton, namely seventeen miles north- 

 east of York. It was about eight years ago, when I was walking home one moonlight night. 

 — Idem. 



Would Mr. Julian be so obliging as to record the date of his interesting visit to AVickcn-fen, 

 which in his account of in "The Naturalist" he has omitted to record? — Idem. 



