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Ichneumon managed to insert her ovi-positor into the body of the spider, 

 retaining it there for a longer period than would have sufficed for the deposit 

 of an egg — probably the original intention — in fact, until the spider was, or 

 appeared to be, dead. I need scarcely add, that I always welcome the 

 appearance of the ichneumons, cruel as is their mode of propagation. 



I saw a Tremex colnmba on one of the window-sills of my church. It 

 was beyond my reach ; and, having specimens in my cabinet, I took no pains 

 to secure it. 



And, to conclude this gossiping communication, I found, on a spruce tree, 

 two larvae of the Orgyia leucostigma. — V. Clementi, North Douro, Ont. 



E-aspberry Gall. — Towards the end of the summer of 1868, while ento- 

 mologizing in the neighborhood of Billing's Bridge, south of Ottawa, in com- 

 pany with Mr. B. Billings, I noticed that the roots of the common raspberry, 

 growing in certain localities, were attacked by a species of gall-fly. 1 recog- 

 nized this gall as similar to one which I found on the 3 1st May, at a place 

 called La Table Bay, Labrador. The galls are generally attached to the 

 roots, but they sometimes occur on that portion of the stem which is covered 

 with earth. I collected a quantity of the Labrador galls, which were placed 

 in a paper bag, and brought to Quebec, where the (Bymenoplerous) insects 

 emerged, but unfortunately the. galls and insects were lost on my removal to 

 this city. The galls are small, spherical, and sometimes found in clusters, 

 each being a cell, containing one insect. I visited the locality near this city 

 this spring, but found the place covered with water, and I have not had 

 another opportunity to look after them. I believe it was not described up to 

 1868. Do any of your correspondents know it? — William Couper, Ottawa, 

 Ontario. 



An t Odd Place for a Humble Bee's Nest. — Our country butcher being 

 for a long time annoyed in his shop with humble bees, was at a loss to find 

 out where they all came from. His shop is a wooden erection, having a 

 broad running beam at the top of the wall to support the roof. The windows 

 are open in the summer and the apertures covered with hexagon wire netting. 

 On carefully searching the premises, he discovered on the top of this beam, 

 at the foot of a rafter, a thriving colony of humble bees, snugly esconced 

 among the wool in a sheep's tail which he had cut off and thrown there some 

 time in the spring. At my request the butcher promised to preserve it, but 

 unfortunately, when I next went to see it, I learned that some rats had found 

 it out and destroyed it. — R. D. Cruder, in Science Gossip. [Last summer 

 I observed a somewhat similar instance. In the spring I carelessly threw 

 a buffalo skin over a beam in my barn, in such a way that the sides hung 

 down with the hairy portions inwards. Sometime afterwards, suspecting the 



