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JIlSt'KM-ANKUl'S NU'I'K'KS. 



P. Rrassic*. 



Head. — Light bluish gray or green, finely 

 speckled with black, and with a small trian- 

 gular pati;h of very light flesh-colour in the 

 centre, broadly bordered by black, and a 

 small round black spot on either side. 



Mandibles. — Palo bluish gray, tipped witli 

 black. 



Thoracic Legs. — Yellowish, faintly spotted 

 with light brown. 



Growth. — Grows to about two inclies. 



Eggs. — Generally in clusters of fifty to 

 si.xty, of a pale lemon-coloui-. 



Earliest time of appearance. — Generally 

 about the 21th. of April. Seldom earlier 

 than that period. 



Tottenham, April 2StIi., 1852. 



P. Cliarieloa. 



Head. — Liglit bluish ffreeti, {invariably,) 

 finely speckled with black, and with a small 

 triangular patch of brigJtt yMotc, broadly 

 bordered by black. 



Mandibles.— Pale bluish graij. 



Thoracic Legs. — Yellowish, bordered and 

 tipped with dark brown. 



Growth. — None exceed an inch and a half. 



Eggs. — Generally in clusters of twenty to 

 thirty, of a dce2) lemon-colour,,, altogether 

 smaller than those of P. BrassicEO. 



Chrysalis. — Much smaller, of a much paler 

 green than, and not so much spotted as that 

 of P. Brassica3. 



Food. — Similar to that of P. Erassicm; 



Earliest time of appearance. — Generally 

 from about the 30th. of JIarch to the 24th. 

 of April. Seldom later than that period. 



We shall be very glad if some of our other Entomological friends will follow 

 out the experiments commenced so ably by Bombyx Atlas. It is the only 

 way to arrive at the truth. We have ourselves hitherto always considered F. 

 Chnriclea to be only a variety of P. Brassicce; but the above facts certainly 

 will induce us to re-consider our opinion. — B. B. M. 



SIliarrllniiFDHH liutirfs. 



Carious anecdote of a Spaniel and young Bucks. — In the early part of last spring I called on 

 a cottager, a poor neighbour, who I heard was ill. I found him sitting by his fire \vith a Spaniel 

 and her puppy, six weeks or two months old, and a Cat and a half-gro^vn kitten. The dog got up 

 to greet me, for we are old acquaintances and good friends, when from under her ran seven 

 young Ducks, a few days old. Tlie woman of the house told me that they had been hatched 

 imder a hen, which would not take care of them; and that she had brouglit them into 

 the house to keep theni warm. The Spaniel immediately took to them, and whenever 

 she came in and lay down by the fire, the Ducks ran to her and nestled among her long hair. 

 I asked her how the Cat agreed with them, to which she rei)lied that Busy, (such is the Spanicd's 

 name,) would not sufl'er anything to come near them; and I had proof of this, for her own 

 puppy went up elo.se to one of them as though to play with it, when she snapped at him and 

 drove him away. One of the Ducks soon died, having, apparently, something wiong in its head ; 

 but the other six throve under Busy's care, and are now tine Ducks, fit for table. The woman 

 added that she was remarkably fond of little young things, and would nestle a brood of 

 young chickens like a hen,— E. M., Goundou, Coventry, July 2nd., 18o2. 



Mouse Diving. — The Eiver Severn has lately much overflown its banks, to the great destruction 

 of the Moles, Mice, and Weasels, wliicli in some uumbers infested the banks and flat meadows. 

 I was walking along the edge of the water a day or two since, when a Dog I had with me 

 started out of a tuft of grass a little Mouse, which, niucli to my surprise, innnccliatcly took 

 the water;' to be sure he was rather sorely presscid, and had no other means of escape. The 

 Dog spi'ang in after him, and, just as he was on the point of catching him, the Mouse, to my 



