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the colorado beetle. 

 Dear Sir, — 



The following extract from an English newspaper, the Bristol Mercury, 

 will show how carefully the Colorado Beetle is looked after in England 

 and how great a risk he runs if he sets foot within the United Kingdom, 

 He is far more sternly outlawed than was Robin Hood or Smith O'Brien, 

 and if only a suspicion of his presence is felt, all, from the Privy Council 

 downwards, are up in arras to crush him with all the terror of the law. 

 Let us hope they will succeed in making the country too hot for even the 

 ten-lined Spearman. 



" Mr. Borlase put a question as to the discovery of a Colorado Beetle 

 in South Devon. 



'' Mr. Mundella answered, saying the Colorado Beetle was in his 

 department {a laugh). He then gave the facts of the discovery of a live 

 Colorado Beetle in the possession of a man at Yealmpton, who refused 

 to give it up. Upon instructions from the department he was prosecuted 

 under the Destructive Insects Act of 1877, and fined the mitigated penalty 

 of ^^, he pleading ignorance of the law and agreeing to the destruction 

 of the beede." E. W. C. 



Dear Sir, — 



I always look for the coming of the Can. Ent. with pleasure. Having 

 seen several articles in the Entomologist relative to the abundance or 

 scarcity of insects, as compared with past seasons, I would inform you 

 that in 1879 I did not see a single specimen of Terias nicippe, while this 

 year they were abundant, in fact more numerous than Colias philodice. 



Columbus, O., Dec. 2, 1880. W. N. Tallant. 



Dear Sir, — 



On the 6th Oct., 1880, I took six cresphontes larvae feeding on prickly 

 ash. Some of them fed for several days afterwards, and in due time they 

 all transformed to chrysalids. Now they have all emerged as butterflies ; 

 the first appeared on the 22nd of March, the last on the 17th of April, 

 1 88 1. They measure from 3^ to 4)^ inches in expanse of wing, perfect 

 in form and rich in coloring. J. Alston Moffat. 



Hamilton, April, 1881. 



