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" wet of north-western Europe, added to the absence of excessive summer heat, is 

 " quite opposed to the conditions necessary for the welfare of the beetle. (3) That 

 " the group of Chrysomela to which it belongs is naturally of a very circumscribed 

 " area in its native land ; and (4) That the danger is here diminished, by one-half at 

 " least, since (it being tolerably certain now that neither eggs, larvse, nor pupa3 are 

 " likely to be imported) of such individual specimens of the perfect insect as may be 

 " ti-ansported here in ships, the only possible vehicle, it is only gravid females that 

 " can be of any harm. The fortuitous conjunction of a pair of the beetles in this 

 " country is altogether improbable ; and it is, moreover, very unlikely that an im- 

 " pregnated female, ready to deposit ova, would act so contrary to instinct as to 

 " select a ship for that purpose, or retain the eggs during the whole passage. 



" It may also be observed that in Colorado itself, according to Mr. Riley's report^ 

 " the damages by the beetles are now so much reduced as to be scarcely worth 

 " recording." 



To the arguments therein adduced may be added, that proper food for the 

 young larvfe is scarcely to be found near quays and docks, even supposing an 

 impregnated gravid female survived the passage without laying her eggs on 

 ship-board.— E. C. R.] 



Pyrameis Huniera in England. — I have just had the pleasure of setting out a 

 very fine and perfect specimen of Pyrameis Iluntera, which was taken about the 30th. 

 of August in Goss Lane, Christchurch, Hants, by the youngest son of S. Evans, Esq., 

 of Eton College, who has just begun to make a collection. There can be no doubt 

 about the freshness of the specimen, which is still in perfect condition. Mr. Evans 

 tells me that it was taken on a patch of Valerian in a lane where P. cardui, C. 

 Edusa and C. Hyale abounded, some of which were taken at the same time, and 

 are now in his son's collection. — A. Vernon Jones, Eton College : Dec. 8th, 1876. 



[We have not seen this specimen, bvit see no reason to doubt the correctness of 

 the identification. The species is figured in Wood's " Index Entomologicus," pi. 53, 

 fig. 8, with the remark — " Said to be taken in Pembrokeshire by Captain Blomer." 

 An example from South Devon was recorded in the " Entomologist " for 1876, 

 p. 255.— Eds.] 



Note on the food plant of Pachnohia hyperhorea falpina, Westio.J. — I was very 

 glad to see Mr. Meek's note on the food plant of the larva of this species, for I felt 

 that the previous note (p. 109) extracted from Dr. Staudingcr's work did not say all 

 that had to be said on this point. 



On 10th of last August, Mr. F. O. Wheeler sent me from Norwich two newly 

 hatched larvse, obtained from eggs laid by a female moth, whicli he and Mr. Richard- 

 son had captured at Rannoch ; they reached me alive, though I could not see that 

 they had tasted any of the leaves of various common plants and bushes which had 

 been put in with them. I placed them in a glass-stoppered bottle, and supplied 

 them with bits of everything I could at the instant procure, that; might at all be 

 supposed likely to suit their taste ; amongst the rest, whortleberry ( I'acciniutn myr- 

 tillus), and two Saxifrages; had my plants of Empetrum nigrum, imported to feed 

 former consignments from the north, still been alive, I should certainly have included 

 their leaves also ; but T was not so lucky. Various plants were nibbled, but 



