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state : they are — I am at a loss to say what, since they resemble the 

 common cabbage-butterfly itself more than any other, according to the 

 figures of indigenous British butterflies in the ' Naturalists' Library,' 

 where the green caterpillar is stated to belong to that species ; the 

 Bath White (Mancipium Daplidice) is the next resemblance to it. 

 Perhaps you can assist me through the medium of your useful period- 

 ical ; I have enclosed two specimens of the butterflies of this doubtful 

 species, and will forward you specimens of the caterpillar itself, in its 

 season, if desirable. — Geo. W. Edginton, Surgeon ; Benfield, Berk- 

 shire, May 30, 1842. 



[The specimens sent are the male and female of Pontia Brassicse, the common 

 cabbage-butterfly. — E. iV.] 



189, The Gaz or Gazu, which is much used for making sweetmeats 

 in Persia, is a glutinous substance, like honey, deposited by a small 

 green insect upon the leaves of the oak-tree. See Diod. xvii. ch. 8, 

 It is the manna of the chemists, — F. Walker. 



190, Anommatus terricola. (Xylophages, Bostrichins), M, Robert 

 Ta decouvert a Chenee pres de Liege, Pour en procurer ces petits 

 insectes il met des planches sur la terre legerement remuee, et bien- 

 tot ils viennent se placer a la face inferieure de celles-ci, Ayant eten- 

 du des planches sur la gazon d'un prairie, il n'en a pris aucun ; mais 

 ayant ote le gazon, il n'en a tarde a en prendre plusieurs, Je n'ai pu 

 apercevoir la moindre trace des yeux. — Bull. Acad. Roy. des Sci. 8fc. 

 d Bruxelles, 1836, 



[M. Robert has discovered Anommatus terricola at Chenee, near Liege. In or- 

 to obtain these little insects, he spread boards upon ground lightly stirred up, and they 

 soon placed themselves on the under surface of the boards. Having laid the boards 

 on the grass in a meadow, he could not find any of the insects ; but on removing 

 the turf they soon reappeared in numbers. I have not been able to perceive the 

 slightest trace of eyes. — E. iV.] 



191, MegacMle Papaveris. In the collection of indigenous bees 

 in the British Museum is a series which Mr. Shuckard has pointed 

 out as belonging to this most interesting species, which was not pre- 

 viously ascertained to be a native of Britain. — E. N. 



JOHN VAN VOORST, W>\ mHffi5^.^S<i"/ PATERNOSTER ROW. 



