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there we found him five or six times a week as drunk as 

 usual. However, I am incliued to think tlial the ;ilcoholic 

 mixture nourished him, so much so that he lived to a longer 

 period than the usual term ; and probably his career was 

 then cut short simply by the ravages of son)e insectivorous 

 creature. — H. T. DoBSON, jun. ; New Maiden, Surrey, 



[We remember trying sugar every suitable night through a 

 mild winter, and seeing a certain sjjecimen of Ceraslis vac- 

 ciiiii, which we had marked, at the sugared tree on upwards 

 of fifty occasions, and only lost sight of it about the middle 

 of April. — Ed.] 



Grekn Hairy Larv^. — At the February meeting of the 

 Entomological Society Sir .John Lubbock is reported to have 

 read a pa])er " On the Colouring of British Caterpillars," in 

 which he stated that no hairy caterpillars are green. Now I 

 think this is trying to prove loo much. A not uncommon 

 variety of the larva o^ Acronycta leporiiui is a beautiful pale 

 green, covered with rather long, soft white hair. Again, 1 

 suppose Sir John would call the caterpillar of the emperor 

 moth, Sattirina pavoiiia-ininor, a hairy caterpillar: this, 

 when full grown, is always some shade of green. At the 

 same meeting Sir John stated that the bright coloration and 

 hirsute jacket of hairy larvae acted as a warning that the 

 species was inedible. How is it, then, that the cuckoo seems 

 to prefer hairy and bright-coloured larvaj to smooth ones? 

 Last autumn, when staying at Tresco Abbey, in the Scilly 

 Isles, I was informed that a iew years since a bee-eater, 

 Merops apiaster, visited the islands in the autunm, and 

 remained for some time. Its principal food was the larva of 

 the fox-moth, Lasiocauipa riibi, one of the hairiest of hairy 

 larvae. It was frequently seen to seize the larvae, beat them 

 to death against the ground, as a thrush does a worm, and 

 then swallow them whole. — [Rev.] H. Harpuk Crewk; 

 Drayton-Beauchamp Rectory, Tring, April 5, 1878. 



Note on Dr. Power's List of the Additions to the 

 British Coleoptera during the Years 1872 — 77 in- 

 clusive. — In Dr. Power's list of the new species of British 

 Coleoptera added to the list from 1872 to 1877 inclusive 

 (Entom. xi. 02), no mention is made of several species that I 

 think ought to find a })lace therein, it is true three of these 

 {Homaliitiii lestKceuin, P.suoi modius porcicollis, and Thyamis 

 ferrnyinea) have already been on our lists, but either erro- 

 neously determined or of more than doubtful British origin, 

 and are noticed as such by Mr. E. C. Rye in Enionj. Annual 



