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instance. The larvae fed well and looked well up to the very- 

 last, changed their skins very frequently, and always kept the 

 same in colour and markings. I hope you are succeeding 

 with yours. — George Mawson ; CockermouUi. 



[I regret to say I have failed also : vast numbers of larvse 

 fail in this way : after having nearly attained their full size, 

 and while apparently in excellent condition, and surrounded 

 by abundance of food, they fall from their food, or hang from 

 it attached by their claspers, quite dead, and if examined ap- 

 pear to be mere bags of water. — Edtaard JVeivtnan.] 



95. Superabundance of Common Larvce. — In some of the 

 woods near here, by the end of April this year (1864), and in 

 strips of two to three hundred yards of the wood, the leaves 

 of every tree were consumed by the larvae of our common 

 autumn moths, especially Oporabia dilutata, Hybernia defo- 

 liaria, Cheimatobia brumata, C. boreata, &c., thousands of 

 the larvae dying for want of food. — George Mawson ; Cocker- 

 mouih. 



96. Something New in Spiders. — A writer in the ' Liver- 

 pool Mercury,' desirous to establish the fact that insects 

 suffer pain, relates the following anecdote : — " I know an in- 

 stance of a spider having been accidentally shut into a hot 

 oven by a servant girl, and the poor thing in its pain 

 screamed so as almost to freeze the blood of the listener ! 

 Who will say that this spider felt no pain ? As for beetles, 

 if you pour a little boiling water upon one it will die in an 

 instant; and I firmly believe that there is no animal, however 

 low in organization, that is not as capable of feeling pain as 

 the most delicate lady." — Edwin Birchall ; December 13. 



At Home. — Friday evenings, January 6, 13 and 20, from 

 6 to 9 o'clock. — E. Newman ; 7, York Grove, Queens Road, 

 Peckham. 



No. 11 of the 'Entomologist' will be published on 

 the 1st of February. 



E. NEWMAN, PBINTEE, DEVONSHIRE STREET, BISHOPSQATE. 



