40 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I am very pleased to receive a 2nd and 3rd number of the 

 * Naturalist,' and also to observe that the Editor has afforded 

 US Entoiuologisls a larger allowance of space than in No. 1. 

 In No. 2 Ml". Liversedge records the capture of a specimen 

 of Crymodes Tem))li on the 30th of April. Mr. Inchbald has 

 an interesting paper on the oak and its galls, which is well 

 worthy of attentive study ; but it seems to want the names of 

 the species to which the author jdludes: I hope he will make 

 this useful addition in his next paper, recollecting that 

 " Nomina si nescis peril et cognitio rerum?'' Mr. Porteons 

 records that he is breeding Clostera anachoreta, and that he 

 has seen a male C. anachoreta paired with a female C. cur- 

 tula ; W. H. C. cites a passage from Westwood on the Sacred 

 Beetle of the Egyptians ; Mr. Blackburn gives a paper on 

 the preservation of caterpillars ; and Mr. Dallas informs us 

 that Ateuchus sacer was regarded as a sacred animal by the 

 Egyptians. In No. 3 Mr. Inchbald again a})pears, and now 

 as the historian of the galls of ihe willows ; Mr. Hodgkinson 

 gives an account of stray rambles, but some of the insects he 

 mentions are unknown to me, for instance the " Lurker 

 (Bidaria laventaria) ;" perhaps some of them are misprinted, 

 and 1 have no desire to be hypercritical on that point ; but 

 the names as published afford no clew to the writer's mean- 

 ing : in conclusion, Mr. Buckmasler gives a list of twelve 

 Lepidoptera taken near London during the present year : 

 none of them are uuconnnon. 



Destructive Economy of Meliyetlies. — 'I write you in con- 

 sequence of the very serious injury the coleseed cro))s are 

 now suffering from a minute beetle, three or four of which I 

 send in a quill. I also enclose a portion of the plant, by 

 which you will observe that not a single pod has been 

 formed. The beetle makes a hole in the unexpanded flower, 

 and the whole inside is eaten, after which the flower-bud 

 drops off. A great number of the Hymenopterous insects 

 are constantly flying round the flower-heads. I have sent 

 three in a quill. If you can, without inconvenience, give me 

 the names of the insects, or either of them, 1 shall be greatly 

 obliged. I have hunted through the Agricultural Society's 

 Reports, but do not find what is wanted. — Marshall Fisher ; 

 Ely, May 1(), 1864. 



