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succumbing to the insidious enemy. There is a certain time 

 at the latter end of summer when the full-grown larvaj take 

 to coming out of the trees and crawling about the road : the 

 children bring them to me constantly, in consideration of a 

 trifle. I have tried to keep them several times. I lost one 

 two months ago, and found it the other day, partly embedded 

 in a book, enwrapped in a yellowish silken cocoon, but still 

 in a perfect caterpillar slate nevertheless. 1 have two pupae 

 now, one of which I have had in that state two years, and yet 

 shows no sign of coming out: the cocoon of this is white. — 

 J. Brown ; Cheam, near Suit on, Surrey, November 10. 



Deilephila lineata at Cheam. — During this summer, just 

 three months ago, the host of the 'Red Lion' inn at Cheam 

 captured, in the j)ublic parlour, a fine specimen of Deilephila 

 lineata. — Id. 



Monohamrnus Sutor in Scotland. — On the 25th of August 

 a specimen of this finelongicorn was captured by a workn)an 

 on the timber at the mouth of one of the coal-]iits in this 

 neighbourhood. It was brought to me alive the same 

 evening, and in perfect condition. — Robert Hislop ; Blair 

 Bank, Falkirk. 



Monohammus Sutor at Brighton. — A specimen of the 

 above insect has recently come into my possession : it was 

 taken in the vicinity of Brighton some four or five years ago. 

 The locality given is the Warren Copse, and the date of 

 capture the end of July or beginning of August. — .7. H. 

 Greenstreet ; 33, Whiliinyton Road, Bath Road, Peckham, 

 October 25, 1869. 



A^est of Crabro sexm(tcalatus. — To your readers who 

 study Hyraenoptera it may be iuteresting to learn something 

 of the economy of a little bee which was found at Quebec, 

 by Mr. N. H. Cowdry, on the 11th April, 1865. As soon as 

 the larvae consume the equal quantity of food provided by 

 the parent, each about the same time transforms into a pupa, 

 but before this change the force of nature constrains it to be 

 further secured within the walls of its cell, and the final work 

 of the larva is to spin a thin silken cocoon wherein the pupa 

 remains until it attains the parent form, about the end of 

 June. Rennie informs us that the carpenter bee (Xylocopa 

 violacca) of Europe " occupies several weeks in these com- 

 plicated labours," and that as each egg " is separated from 



