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in a friend's garden, by inserting a piece of wire in the holes 

 made by them ; a strip of whalebone would do better. — J. 

 Russell. 



Is the Larva of Cossus a Cannibal ? — I shall be much 

 obliged if you will inform me, through the ' Entomologist,' if 

 it is usual for larvae of C. Ligniperda to devour one another 

 when in captivity. I had fifteen, found in willow, which I 

 kept all together in a tin box : twelve were about three-parts 

 grown ; the others much smaller, I have now three remain- 

 ing, nothing but the heads of the others being left. Seven 

 large beetle-grubs, kept in the wood with them, were also 

 eaten. — [Miss] F. H. Woolward : Belton Rectory, Grantham^ 

 July 20, 1872. 



[I am not aware of any similar instance of cannibalism in 

 Cossus having been recorded.] 



Lithosla quadra at Newcastle. — Since I wrote to you 

 mentioning the capture of L. quadra, near the town, I have 

 myself had the luck to capture a fine male close to my 

 garden-gate. As I live near a square, fully a quarter of a mile 

 inside the town, I am rather astonished at finding it there, 

 particularly as no one has caught any more in this neigh- 

 bourhood. — J. C. Wassermann ; 20, Summerhill Terrace, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Lithosia quadra. — Three specimens of L. quadra were 

 taken at Highgale the last week in July. My brother secured 

 one, a fine male: it flew into the ' Whittington Stone' public- 

 house, on Highgate Hill. The others were taken on a wall 

 near the Archway. — J. Russell. 



C. Villica. — As a correspondent in the July number seems 

 to doubt my statement in the June number, relative to 

 Villica feeding on furze, I beg to assure him that I was not 

 mistaken. I bred a quantity of Villica this year, and fed them 

 on nothing but young shoots of furze. They throve on it so 

 well that 1 had images out, before some Villica larvae a friend 

 had, and was giving the ordinary food-plant to, underwent 

 pupation. — [Rev.] A. C. Hervey ; Pokesdown. 



Glahraria, Siuuata and Scolopacina at West Looe, 

 Cornwall. — Within the last month I have taken in this 

 neighbourhood single specimens of Glabraria, Sinuata and 

 Scolopacina. — Nathaniel Hearle ; West Looe, Cornwall, 

 August 19, 1872. 



