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5th. A handsome, undetermined Tortrix, with brown fore-wings, 

 powdered with metallic scales, and which Mr. Saunders reports to be quite 

 common in a locality near London. 



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6th. A small beetle, a Sitona, closely allied to, if not identical, with 

 panacea ; found in large numbers in a bottle of powdered carraway seeds. 

 Specimens of the dead larvae were found along with the perfect insect, but 

 they were too much dried up and discoloured to admit of description. In 

 the pupal condition, the insect occupies a small oval chamber in the 

 powder, from which the beetle escapes at maturity. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



Collection of Coleoptera. — We beg to acknowledge, with many 

 thanks, the receipt of a box of Coleoptera from the Rev. N. D. St. Cyr, 

 Seminaire de Nicolet, P. Q. ; we trust that our esteemed correspondent 

 Vv'ill accept our apologies for having so long delayed to notice them. Our 

 time is so much engrossed with the various and multiplied duties that 



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have of late devolved upon us, that we find it impossible to be punctual 

 with our correspondence, or indeed to maintain it at all as we should like. 

 We trust, however, that our present labours will be diminished before long, 

 and that then we may hope once more to obtain the good graces of our 

 friends, which, we fear, we must by this time have lost in many cases by 

 our apparent neglect. M. St. Cyr, in his gift to the Society's Cabinet, has 

 included 247 specimens of Coleoptera, belonging to 71 different species — 

 many of them rare and interesting. They reached us in very good order 

 indeed, with only the almost inevitable loss of a few antenna?. As our 

 correspondent writes in French, we may perhaps be pardoned for depart- 

 ing from our rule, and quoting his very kind and flattering expressions 

 regarding our Society and this publication : — " Je m'empresse de saisir 

 cette occasion pour nous feliciter du succes tres remarquable que vous 

 avez obtenu : la Societe est florissante, et le Canadian Entomologist, 

 toujours attendu avec impatience, nous arrive tou jours rempli d'articles 

 extremement interessants sur cette belle science. Je ne crains pas de le 

 dire votre Journal peut rivaliser avec honneur, avec les publications du 

 meme genre faites aux Etats-Unis. La forme, le fond, tout y'est irre- 

 prochable." 



Vespa Crabro. — We are very much obliged indeed to our corres- 

 pondent, Mr. James Angus, of West Farms, N. Y., for some specimens (5 

 males, 5 females, and 6 neuters), of this most formidable-looking hornet. 

 They form a valued addition to our cabinet. 



