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which is passed a taper ferrule ; the other end of the wood is 

 covered with a small ferrule, about one inch in length, with a 

 hole through it, 8, figs. 4, 5 : a hole in the handle the 

 same way. A stout piece of wire is passed through the 

 whole and rivetted up tight; the calico is fastened to the 

 frame-work at 8, 9, 10, 11 (fig. 5); 11 is a piece of tape sown 

 on, about five inches long, to receive the point of the cane, 

 and a false hem is made to receive the handle at 4, 5 (fig. 3). 

 The handle, twenty-five inches for the longest and twenty 

 inches for the shortest, 4 (fig. 3). From the above description 

 I think anyone can make it, — G. C. Bignell ; 6, Clarence 

 Place, Stoiiehouse, Phpiioulh, January 18, 1875. 



Lepisniodes inquilinus. — In connection with the new 

 Lepisma, reported to have been exhibited by Mr. F. H. 

 Ward at a recent meeting of the Entomological Society of 

 London, I would take the liberty of asking whether the 

 insect may not be that kitchen pest which I described in the 

 'Zoologist' for 1863 under the above name? The genus 

 Lepisraodes differs from Lepisma in having a delicate lateral 

 fringe all round the body, and in wanting the silvery scales, 

 which are so familiar to raicroscopists as test-objects. — 

 Edward Newman. 



Answers to Correspotidents. 



Arthur Rt/don. — Forcing the Emergence of Lepidoptera 

 from the Chrysalis, and difficuUy of procuring Food for the 

 Young Larvm when Hatched. — I have lately been rearing 

 moths by pulling the pupse in a hothouse. The day before 

 yesterday two pale tussocks emerged, and to-day I killed 

 them, thinking both were males; but, on examination, I 

 found one was a female, and had laid several eggs. What I 

 wish to know is when would these eggs emerge (not being 

 kept in a hothouse), and what ought I to feed them on ? I 

 have also some lime-hawks and puss, duke of Burgundy 

 fritillaries, privets, poplars, buff-tips, and spotted elephants. 

 Can I get eggs from these, and could I rear them if I was very 

 careful ? 



[If moths are compelled by any artificial process to emerge 

 at any other than a natural and proper season, it follows as a 



