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"luminous centipede," or "winter glow-worm," but is a 

 native of Asia. He relates, on the authority of E. G. Ekeberg, 

 the captain of a Swedish East Indiaman, that it dropped from 

 the air, shining like a glow-worm, upon the deck of his ship, 

 while she was sailing on the Indian Ocean a hundred miles 

 from the continent. Jn Turton's translation the statement is 

 given rather diflferently, thus : " Scolopendra phosphorea 

 inhabits Asia, and shines like a glow-worm in the dark ; has 

 been known to fall from the air into a vessel a thousand miles 

 from land, in the Indian sea." Kirby and Spence, in repeating 

 this narrative, make the following observation : " However 

 singular this statement, it is not incredible. The insect may 

 either, as Linne suspects, have been elevated into the 

 atmosphere by wings, with which, according to him, one 

 species of the genus is provided; or, more probably, perhaps 

 by a strong wind, such as that which raised into the air the 

 shower of insects mentioned by De Geer, as occurring in 

 Sweden in the winter of 1749, after a violent storm that had 

 torn up trees by the roots, and carried away to a great 

 distance the surrounding earth, the insects that had taken up 

 their winter-quarters amongst it." (' Introduction to Entomo- 

 logy,' vol. ii. p. 415.) What either of these learned authors 

 may mean by assigning wings to a myriapod I am quite at a 

 loss to understand. I hope Mr. Erskine will excuse the long 

 delay in publishing this communication. — E. Newman.'] 



F. J. Phillips. — Tenthredo Cratcegi. — The larva of the 

 enclosed I discovered feeding on quick hedge on the 12th of 

 July, 1874, in the dusk of the evening. The perfect insect 

 emerged from the pupa state on the 18th April, 1875. I 

 enclose with the insect the pupa-case. The larvae left off 

 feeding soon after I captured them, and assumed the pupa 

 state on the 24th of July. Will you kindly oblige me by 

 naming it ? 



[I have little hesitation in naming this insect Tenthredo 

 Cratgegi, notwithstanding certain discrepancies of character, 

 one of which is very decided. The cocoon, instead of being 

 hard, glutinous, and firmly attached to a twig of hawthorn, as 

 generally observed in T. Crata^gi, is woolly, loose, and has 

 been spun amongst the rubbish and earth at the bottom of 

 the breeding cage : this may be the result of the larva not 

 being provided with suitable twigs to which to attach itself. 



