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sun under a large beech tree, and as I never think of having a 

 nap when I should be working, from habit my eye was look- 

 ing for something or anything. Eventually it rested on an old 

 leafless crab tree, on which were some fine silken threads 

 shining between me and the light at the end of the twigs. 

 Up I got at once, saying to myself, " Now (ov Andereggiellay 

 And so it was ; for upon looking beneath the web I found, 

 snugly ensconced where the pith should be, a fat larva. I 

 further secured a dozen more larvae. These left the web and 

 made a pretty white cocoon on the box-lid. In a fortnight 

 after I bred nine lovely specimens of Argyresthia Afidereg- 

 giella. — J, B. Hodgkinson; Preston. 



Laverna Raschkiella. — I am not aware of any record 

 that this species has occurred elsewhere than Box Hill, 

 where I discovered it in 1856, as recorded in Stainton's 

 'Annual,' 1857. The larva is to be had plentifully in some 

 of the woods here, mining the leaves of Epilohium angusti- 

 Jolium, which grows in great profusion. I have not seen its 

 congener, Laverria conturhatella.. — F. O. Standish ; Chel- 

 tenham. 



DoRYPHORADECEMLiNEATA. — Her l^ajesty's Commissioners 

 of Customs have received advice of the discovery of living 

 examples of the Colorado potato-beetle at Bremen. They 

 were found upon tubers imported from New York. Specimens 

 have also been seen in other parts of Germany. The com- 

 missioners have consequently issued a circular to the various 

 port collectors of customs in the United Kingdom, desiring 

 that certain instructions already given be rigidly enforced, 

 with respect to potatoes imported from Germany, with a view 

 to prevent the introduction of this dreaded insect into Britain. 

 It is undoubtedly quite right to take these precautions, and 

 be, as far as possible, on the safe side ; but I do not think 

 that there need be much alarm or panic in this country with 

 respect to the beetle, even if a few specimens should manage 

 to get imported. Any large number is not likely to be 

 introduced at the same time. The temperature and climatal 

 conditions of England and Colorado are so utterly different, 

 that 1 cannot imagine the creature would be likely to multiply 

 to such an extent as to become a pest, though it is not 

 improbable that stray specimens of it might get disseminated, 

 and even keep up the breed. It is true that some foreign 



