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that had eleven pairs of these polliuia attached to its maxilla3, 

 and another of Aconlia luctuosa tliat had seven pairs; each 

 blossom possesses a pair, but they are frequently robbed of 

 only one. I shall be very pleased to give any farther 

 information on this most interesting subject. — E. Newman. 



F. W. Wldte. — I shall feel much obliged by your 

 kindly naming the accompanying larvae, which were found 

 feeding on pear-trees in a friend's garden at Cainscross. 

 He also noticed them both last year and this. It appears 

 that they become of a green colour after their last moult, 

 and then pass into the ground to undergo their trans- 

 formation. 



[The insect produced from the grub is a savvfly, Blenno- 

 campa Cerasi. — E. Netvman.] 



Rev. John A, Kerr ; Belfast. — The insect sent is Necro- 

 phorus interruptus, one of the burying-beetles. — E. Newman. 



O. A. S. — The facts are interesting, but I cannot publish 

 them anonymously. The mites are still alive, and apparently 

 healthy. 1 cannot distinguish them fiom the so-called Acarus 

 domesticus, which occurs in all our houses. It is very extra- 

 ordinary that it should occur on living moths. — E. Newman. 



JV. Claxton. — Would you be kind enough to inform 

 me whether it is necessary to remove the interior of beetles 

 before placing them in the cabinet } 



[I have never done anything of the kind. I place the 

 drying-cage in the thorough draught, and do not find any 

 inconvenience arise from the smell. — E. Newman.^ 



Haggerston Entomological Society. — The annual exhi- 

 bition of this Society will be held in their room at the 

 " Brownlow Arms," Brownlow Street, Haggerston, on the 

 evenings of Thursday and Friday, November 12lh and 13lh, 

 from 7 to 11 p.m. All entomological friends are invited to 

 attend ; and any entomologists wishing to exhibit will kindly 

 send their exhibitions on or before Thursday evening, 

 November 5th, to the Secretary, Mr. Bartlett, at the above 

 address. 



Death of Mr. Crotch. — George Robert Crotch, a Coleop- 

 terist of great eminence, and still greater promise, died at 

 Philadelphia on the IGth of June of the present year, 

 apparently in the very zenith of an undertaking, which — in 



