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sweets; I have often observed them, in the day lime, on the 

 trunks of the trees tliat have been sugared, busily employed 

 absorbing the sugar. Very little is known respecting their 

 habits : the suggestion has been thrown out that they pro- 

 bably feed on other insects, the correctness of which I can 

 vouch for, from having on one occasion seen a male speci- 

 men of Panorpa feeding upon the body of a dead Tipula ; I 

 distinctly saw the Panorpa plunge its rostrum again and 

 again into the abdomen of the Tipula, the contents of which 

 it discussed with evident satisfaction. — Charles Healy. 



Acari in Cochineal. — Inside the card-case you will find an 

 instance of one insect feeding comfortably on another. Some 

 very valuable lots of cochineal have been entirely converted 

 into the useless mass of mites and debris of which the 

 enclosed is a sample, and which may interest you or some 

 of your microscopic friends. — A. G. Latham; Manchester. 



New or Rare British Beetles. — 1. Phosphcenus hemiplerus, 

 taken in a garden at Lewes. 2. A species of Omias, taken in 

 Hackney Marshes. 3. Aphodiens villosus, taken atLlandudno. 

 4. Coccinella labilis, taken near Whitstable. 5. Ceuthorhyn- 

 chus Urticap, taken at Mickleham. — Ent. Mo. Mag. 



Preparatory States of the Common Cockroach. — I shall 

 feel much obliged if you will describe the larva and pupa 

 condition of the above insect. — Mary Melville ; Rose Cot- 

 taye, Loudon Road, Brighton. 



[The larvae of Blatta orientalis emerge from the aggregate 

 mass of eggs (so peculiar to the genus Blatta, and so entirely 

 different from all other egg-masses with which we are 

 acquainted) in the perfect similitude of their parents, except 

 as regards the entire absence of wings and wing-cases, which 

 they do not acquire until after the last moult : the juvenile 

 cockroaches eat and run from the very day of their extrusion 

 from the egg-shell ; the colour is very pale, the size very 

 minute : the Blatta has no quiescent state.— £". Newman.] 



Name of a Coleopteron. — Enclosed, in the quill, are some 

 small beetles found on a tall plant with a square stem, the 

 leaves somewhat like the common nettle. I should be obliged 

 for the name of the beetles. — JVm. Lister ; Glaisdale. 



[The plant I suppose to be Scrophularia nodosa. The 

 insect is Cionus Scrophularia^. Both the plant and insect are 

 common. — E. Newman.] 



