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the hornet. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with 

 that opinion. Deceased was fifty years of age. 



[This is one of the best authenticated instances of death 

 from the sting of a hornet that I have ever met with, and I 

 think admits of no doubt. The medical question o( shock or 

 poison is scarcely witliin ray province, but I shall have 

 occasion to say something of another sting shortly. — Edward 

 Newman.] 



Peat Insects. — If any of your readers could give me the 

 names of any insects, Myriapods, or Arachnida, that have 

 been found in peat, marl, or any of the later tertiary deposits 

 of the United Kingdom, I shall be thankful. I am about 

 to publish a list of all the fossils of the Upper British 

 Tertiaries, and have only the following in my list, gathered 

 from many sources : — Atopa cervina, Buprestis sp., Cas- 

 sida sp., Chrysomela sp., Cimex sp., Coccinella sp., Copris 

 lunaris, Cossyphus sp,, Curculio sp., Donacia linearis, Dy- 

 tiscus sp., Elater lineatus, Harpalus sp., Licinus sp., Oiceop- 

 toma dispar, Oreina sp,, Phryganea sp. The locality and 

 matrix in which the forms are embedded is requested, as well 

 as the names of the organisms. — Alfred Bell; 5, Grafton 

 Street, Fitzroy Square, July 25, 1874. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Miss A. Steele Perkins. — In the pursuit of moths and 

 butterflies I am continually meeting with other beautiful 

 or curious insects, about which I can obtain no information 

 in this decidedly unentomological part of the country. I 

 therefore write to ask if you will let me know whether there is 

 such a thing as a begiinier's book on Entomology, containing 

 information as to the number, names, and natural order, of 

 the great divisions of British insects; the habits, metamor- 

 phosis, &c., of the different classes; the number of species 

 in each class; and the manner of collecting and preserving 

 them. — Anne Steele Perkins; Ashgrove, liuahon, April 21, 

 1874. 



[As ajirst book, quite for beginners, the 'Insect Hunters,' 

 price 2.S. Gd. ; as a complete introduction to the Science, 

 Newman's 'Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects,' 



