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muslin net, and take no furlhev trouble until they are spun 

 up, when I clip off the cocoons and put them in a breeding- 

 cage. The moths come out in the afternoon, and must be 

 secured before dark, or they will batter themselves to pieces. 

 — D. T. Button. 



[Many thanks for the larvge, which arrived in safety; many 

 thanks also for the long letter on entoniologising by the river, 

 but it must stand over at this late period of the month. — 

 JE. Newman.'] 



Chortobius Davus and Monster Ichneumon in Co. West- 

 meath. — On the 11th of June my children brought me four 

 of the finest specimens of Chortobius Davus I ever saw; and 

 I have had what appears to me a monster ichneumon come 

 out in one of my breeding-cages: it measures from the tips 

 of the antennae to the extremity of the hind claws two inches 

 and a quarter. — F.J. Batlershy ; Cromlyn, Rathowen, June, 

 1868. 



Galls on Salix Jierhacea. — Tt will be in the recollection of 

 most of my readers that in the September number Mr. Lees 

 and the late Mr. Armistead conjointly published a most inte- 

 resting discovery of small currant-like galls on the leaves of 

 Salix herbacea, with a request that I would name " the fabri- 

 cator of the galls." I could not do so at the time, but have 

 since detected the architect : it is Euura Cynips, one of the 

 Tenlhredinida) described by myself in the ' Entomological 

 Magazine ' (vol. iv. p. 260) : the species is generally dis- 

 tributed over Britain, and makes its presence known by the 

 shining and often beautifully coloured excrescences which its 

 larvffi cause on the leaves of almost every species of willow. 

 — E. Newman. 



Cedar-tvood Cabinets. — I have taken the liberty to send 

 you a specimen of a curious and very troublesome appear- 

 ance of glutinous matter which has for some years past shown 

 itself upon shells, both fresh-water and sea-shells, and also 

 upon land-shells, placed in the drawers of a cabinet here. 

 The drawers are of cedar, and this oily, sticky matter has 

 come upon all the shells, and also upon the legs and claws 

 of bird-skins which are in the same cabinet. The cedar is 

 perfectly dry and seasoned, the cabinet being now quite ten 

 years' old, and made of seasoned wood ; it stands in a dry 

 room, where there is a fire during eight months out of the twelve. 



