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eggs, but is it not probable that their unwonted prevalence 

 this summer maybe owing to the mild winter and dry spring? 

 — [Miss) E. Newman ; West-End House, Uxbrid(/e, June 1. 



[The intermittent appearance of this insect is very curious: 

 ten years ago, and ante, the few apple trees 1 possess were 

 annually devastated by it, but since that period not a single 

 specimen has been seen, and its destructive mission a})pears 

 to have devolved on Yponomeuta padella, which now strips 

 every apple tree of its foliage, and leaves it as bare as at mid- 

 winter : this year Borabyx nenstria is again swarming in my 

 neighbourhood, although I have not seen a single larva in 

 my own garden. As to a remedy for this plague of lacquey 

 caterpillars, I am unable to suggest abetter than shaking the 

 boughs where they are observed feeding, picking them up as 

 they fall limp and helpless on the ground, collecting them in 

 buckets and pouring hot water on them. — E. Newman.^ 



Cannibalism of the Larva of Chelonia caja. — The note 

 on the cannibalism of Chelonia caja larvae, in the June num- 

 ber of the 'Entomologist,' reminds me of a similar although 

 less disastrous circumstance occurring last season in my cage 

 appropriated to C. caja larvae. One caterpillar had made its 

 web, when another effected an ingress, and a sharp contest 

 ensued, resulting in the ejection of the first tenant. All its 

 long hairs were stripped off, and it was in a pitiably weakened 

 condition. In a short time it changed to a pupa, without any 

 protection : it was immediately attacked by three or four 

 large caterpillars, and, although 1 took it out of the cage 

 directly, no moth emerged. I had a brood of C. caja which 

 1 reared from the egg, and they hybernated in November, but 

 they all died. Perhaps I should have had a cage to which 

 the air had free access ? — [Miss] E. Newman ; West-End 

 House, Uxbridge, June 1, 1866. 



[I have always found that hybernating larvae cannot be too 

 much exposed to the action of the elements ; 1 believe it 

 next to impossible to breed Bombyx Rdbi, for instance, with- 

 out full exposure to wind and rain. — Eduard Newman. 



Notes on Lycmna Arion. — This rare species still remains 

 an enigma to the entomologist in ils early stages. It is not 

 until it has assumed the winged condition that it gladdens 

 the eyes of the anxious collector, as it flies majestically along 

 over the broken and stony surface of the wind-blown hills 



