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To THE EDITOR. In reply to your postal of yesterday I beg to say I 

 have not communicated to you any " fake" story, but merely related facts. 

 It is absolutely impossible to suppose that the dead larvae referred to were 

 stung after the bottle was broken, for at this time of the year it is not 

 likely that ichneumon flies should exist in my study, which, by the way, 

 is a rather cold room. As I stated before, I carefully examined larvae at 

 the time they died, because they looked perfectly healthy, and I was at a 

 loss to account for their death. My theory now, after appearance of the 

 ichneumon cocoon is, that they were stung when quite full grown, that 

 worms destroyed intestines of the larvae, causing their death, and that 

 they had been feeding inside the dead body all the time, because the al- 

 cohol prevented their usual way of coming to the surface. The facts are 

 and remain, that the dead larvae after being preserved in alcohol for nearly 

 one and a half years were found covered with cocoons of an ichneumon 

 fly on the floor, together with the remnants of the broken bottle. HER- 

 MANN AICH. 



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Entomological Literature. 



1. NATURE. London, March i, 1894. Note on the habits of a Jamaican 

 spider \_Nephila clavipes], T. D. A. Cockerell. March 22. The suspen- 

 sion of foreign bodies from spiders' webs, R. Philipp. 



2. SCIENCE GOSSIP. London, March, 1894. Roosting butterflies, J. 

 T. Carrington, figs. 



3. THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. Philadelphia, March, 1894. A cu- 

 rious hemipteron [Reduvius personatus}, L. Highfield. April, 1894. The 

 white marked Tussock-moth (Orgyia leucostignia Sm. and Abb.) in 

 Chicago, J. L. Hancock, figs. 



4. THE OTTAWA NATURALIST, February and March, 1894. Corydalis 

 cornuta, J. Fletcher. 



