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feature in the locality. — Geo. T. Porri tt ; Highroyd House, 

 Huddersfield, July 4, 1878. 



Note on protected Coleoptera. — To the list of" specially 

 protected insects we may, I ihink, venture to add Pyrochroa 

 coccinea. Several specimens which I have thrown to poultry 

 have been decidedly rejected : its boldness is as well-marked 

 as its coloration is striking. It is, by the way, a destroyer of 

 Aphides; and so are Malachius (eneus and M. hipustulatus. 

 A iew days ago I was hastily called to look at a " wasp 

 without wings," which had been imprisoned under a tumbler. 

 It proved to be a large specimen of Clylus arietis. The 

 boldness of this insect, and its indifference when a hand is 

 put forth to seize it, as I have frequently remarked this 

 season, show that its wasp-like coloration proves, under 

 ordinary circumstances, a sufficient protection. In this 

 respect it differs strikingly from Callidiuni violaceurtt, a 

 common species here, which on the least approach of danger 

 disappears round the post, rail, or branch, upon which it is 

 sitting, with admirable neatness and speed. My experiments 

 show that it is not protected by any repulsive odour or taste, 

 as it is readily devoured by birds. — J. W. Slater; 3, Bicester 

 Road, Aylesbury, July 6, 1878. 



On Parthenogenesis in the TENTHREDiNiDiE. — The 

 result of the experiment recorded by Mr. P. Cameron (Ent. 

 Mo. Mag. for June last) induced me to try the same 

 experiment with another sawfly, Eriocampa ovatii, which 

 enables me to corroborate the result obtained by that gentle- 

 man. When I saw the article above alluded to I determined 

 the first opportunity to try the same myself; as 1 had several 

 bottles containing sawfly pupae I had not long to wait. 1 

 keep these bottles in my bed-room : on getting out of bed on 

 June 23rd I looked at the bottles; there were no sawflies in 

 any of them ; but before 1 had finished dressing a female was 

 crawling up the side of one of the bottles, which I 

 immediately boxed ; and a i'ew minutes afterwards another, 

 which 1 likewise boxed. Having secured them in separate 

 boxes 1 went out and procured a spray of alder ; this 1 got 

 from a cold sheltered spot, with a north aspect, as being least 

 likely to have the leaves already punctured by sawflies. I 

 put the sprig of alder into a bottle of water, and that under a 

 bell-glass; I then tried to put the two female sawflies under 

 it, but as it was in the sun, and on a very hot day, they were 

 very active, and one of them escaped, for which now I am 

 not sorry ; the other no sooner flew on to the leaves than she 



