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Larva in Orange. — I have a larva feeding in an orange, 

 quite in the heart. I hope to breed it. It is pinkish white, with 

 brown head, and black steel-looking collar on the 2nd segment, 

 and black legs. It is a very fast feeder, as it ate into the heart 

 of a fresh orange in twenty-four hours, beginning at the top of 

 the pith, and making quite a cavity in the centre among the pips. 

 After opening the second orange to find if it was inside, I had to 

 give it a fresh one, which it soon entered ; but it took the pre- 

 caution to web over the orifice of its retreat in the last orange, 

 and there it still remains. — C. J. Boden; 238, Bermondsey 

 Street, London, S.E., Jauuary, 1887. 



Preservation of Lepidoptera. — Will any of your readers 

 kindly give me their opinion of corrosive sublimate as a 

 preservative, and also the best wa}^ to make it, ingredients, exact 

 quantities, and where to get them ? I also should like to know if 

 methylated spirit answers the purpose of the alcohol referred to 

 by Waterton, in his ' Wanderings in South America,' and if it is 

 necessar}^ to entirely immerse the insects in the solution, or 

 merely paint their bodies with a camel-hair brush. — Walter 

 Dannatt; Ivy Dene, Westcombe Park, Blackheath, S.E. 



[For preserving Lepidoptera from the depredations of mites, 

 &c., naphthaline has frequently been recommended, vide Entom. 

 1882 and 1885.— E. S.]. 



Malposition of Imago in Pupa-case. — A few days ago, 

 while opening some pupae which had failed to emerge, I came 

 across one of Lopliopteryx camelina, in which the head of the 

 imago was towards the tail of the pupa-case, and the moth had 

 laid some eggs within the pupa-case ; the dorsal surface of the 

 imago was towards the ventral surface of the pupa-case ; and I 

 find that this was also the case in one of the pupee of Asphalia 

 flavicornis, previously recorded. In the other the imago was 

 placed laterally, as regards the pupa-case. — W. R. Buckell ; 

 Romsey, Hants. 



Captures at Chiswick. — During the past year several new 

 forms have been added to the local list for Bedford Park, and 

 some of them are interesting. These species of Neuroptera 

 have been identified by Mr. McLachlan : Leptocerus dissiinilis, 

 Stepb., found on a leaf of Phaseolus multiflorm, and two mayflies, 

 Cloeon diptenim, L., and an immature form, perhaps C. simile, 



