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equally nimble. Will you therefore kindly tell me their names, and what 

 you know of their economy ?- — Henry Reeks, EastWoodhay, May 24, 187 1. 

 [Ans. — These minute insects were so clogged with the gum introduced for 

 the purpose of preventing their escape, that I cannot decide with certainty 

 on their names : I believe, however, that they are a species of Poduridae, 

 perhaps Smynthurus fuscus. I should much like to see living specimens ; 

 they may be sent safely in a glass tube. The fact of such insects being- 

 destructive to rape and turnips is quite new to me. and is very interesting.] 

 — The Entomologist ', July, 1871. 



Entomologists 1 x FRANCE.--The second seige, by which Paris has 

 suffered so much, has spared the persons of entomologists, but has utterly 

 annihilated or Lrreatlv damaged many of their collections and libraries. 

 Dr. Laboulbene, who resided in the rue du Bac, had a part of his house 

 caught by the flames, and a great part of his library destroyed. M. 

 Poulard's collection was shattered to atoms by shells, and many collec- 

 tions have suffered great injury from the partial explosion of the Luxem- 

 bourg powder-mills : happily a tenth part only of the powder exploded : 

 had the project of exploding the whole been successful, the collections in 

 the Museum itself must have been destroyed. M. de Marseul's collection 

 is uninjured. Almost all the provincial entomologists of France are in 

 safety, and eagerly pursuing their favorite study, a solace in their troubles. 

 At Strasbourg the fine collection of M. Gauber is safe, and likewise those 

 of MM. Koechlin and Zuber-Hofer at Dornach, while that of M. Guenee, 

 at Chateaudun, has entirely escaped the destruction of the town by the 

 Prussians, who have taken both the collections and the books ot M. 

 Kstienne, from the same town.— Petites Nouvelles Entomologiqucs. 



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