356 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
Carding Beetles——In carding large or moderately-sized 
beetles, how do you manage to keep the antenne stretched 
out?—J. W. 
I have either allowed them to take their course as when 
pinned and leave them unsupported, or have gummed them 
to the card-board. I do not think either plan good; and 
shall be obliged if Dr. Power, or some other competent 
authority, will advise. 
Worms infesting the Larve of Liparis chrysorrhoea.—Can 
you inform me, through your ‘ Entomologist, of the name of 
the inclosed worms, which have been killed in spirits of wine. 
I have a large brood of L. chrysorrheea, and a great many of 
them seem to have been attacked by this parasite, which I 
find from time to time in my breeding-cage, they having 
crawled out of some of the caterpillars, which le near, in a 
shrivelled state. I shall be much obliged for any information, 
as I have never met with this insect before, nor can I think to 
what it is likely to tunn.— Byron Noel; Findon, Worthing, 
June 6, 1871. 
The worm is a Filaria, but I am unable to state the 
species. The occurrence of this worm in Lepidoptera is not 
uncommon ; but it is much more frequent in the Coleopterous 
genus Feronia. I have frequently seen specimens, three and 
four inches in length, protruding from the extremity of the 
body in Feronia madida. The Filaria sent is in its adult 
state, and undergoes no farther metamorphosis. 
Larva of a Sawfly.—I have now in my breeding-cage a 
very strange caterpillar, such as I have never seen before. I 
took it a fortnight since feeding on whitethorn: it is a pale 
green colour, frosted all over with white or very pale green; 
it always rests coiled up at the back of the leaf. What is it? 
—Stephen Clogq. 
The larva of Tenthredo Cratzgi, the Tenthredo sylvatica, 
Tenthredo Lucorum, Cimbex Lucorum, Trichiosoma sylvati- 
cum, &c., &c., of various authors. ‘There are hundreds on 
each hawthorn hedge in my neighbourhood: it will be 
described under the name of Tenthredo Crategi in my 
collected notes on these insects. 
Agamogenesis in Sphinx Ligustrt.—W hether the following 
fact concerning the Sphinx Ligustri is new or not I cannot 
say; it appears so strange to me that I think it worth sending 
