248 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
fortune to find three specimens of this beetle on rotten potatoes 
when digging the crop in my garden.—'THOMAS H. Hart; Kings- 
north, Kent, Sept. 15, 1880. 
Anruripus ALBINUS, Lin.—I have just had the pleasure of 
setting a specimen of this rare and beautiful weevil. It was taken 
on the 8th September by my friend, Mr. Jeffrey, crawling on the 
hat of a gentleman with whom he was botanising a short distance 
from Ashford.—Ib. 
Newspaper Enromotocy.—In reprinting the following cut- 
tings it is unnecessary to comment on the question of the intro- 
duction of elementary entomology into schools.—Ep. “It is 
stated that a capture has been made at Stranraer of a Colorado 
beetle which flew in at a surgery door on Saturday evening. Itis 
said to be about three-quarters of an inch inlength. There was 
a quantity of larvee on it when caught, and now, two days after, 
a number of lively little beetles are disporting themselves on 
potato and cabbage leaves in their glass prison.”—' Daily Tele- 
graph,’ Aug. 17. 1880. An Enemy to Cotton.—“ The Chief En- 
tomological Commissioner of the United States has, according to 
a Southern despatch, just addressed the Cotton Exchange at 
Mobile on the subject of the cotton-worm, now threatening much 
damage to the growing crop. The worm, the caterpillar of an 
owlet moth, is of triangular shape, about an inch long, the wpper 
wings of a reddish gray, and the under wings darker. It has 
legs ; but the foremost are So short that in creeping it arches the 
back like a span-worm. The colour is green, with light yellow 
stripes and black dots along the back. It grows often to the 
length of an inch and a half. Its eggs are ten to fifteen, deposited 
on the under surface of the tender leaves, which they resemble in 
colour, and to which they are firmly attached. Incubation lasts 
from six to fifteen days.”—‘ News of the World.’ 
OBITUARY. 
Henry Ramsay Cox.—Our readers will regret to learn that 
Mr. Henry Ramsay Cox, F.L.S., died at his residence, Forest 
Hill, on September 8rd, 1880, at the early age of thirty-six 
years. His name was frequently seen in the pages of this and 
other magazines.—4J. T. C. 
