264 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
greenhouse for a sheet of water. I should be pleased to know 
if others have had a similar experience, as it tends to show that 
the insect is guided more by the sense of sight than by smell.— 
G. L. McDonatp ; Saffron Walden. 
CRYPTORRHYNCHUS LAPATHI.—In June, 1882, I observed in 
one of my rambles a sallow bush that was attacked by some 
internal feeders, which on examination proved to be the larve of a 
beetle. I broke a piece off the bush, and brought it home for a 
friend, who some time afterwards informed me that they had 
changed to a beetle that neither of us knew at the time, but have 
since made out to be C. lapathi. Being asked to get him some 
more of them, I went again to the place on September 12th and 
found the perfect insects were in the burrows made by the larve, 
and not at all inclined to move from them; by which I concluded 
they must pass the winter in that way, which afterwards proved 
correct. Not being much interested in beetles at that time, I took 
no further notice of them, but happening to pass the place in the 
beginning of April this year, I bethought me of the beetles and 
went to look at them, and found them in the same state I had left 
them in last September: they had not moved in the least. I 
broke off a piece about a foot in length and an inch in diameter, 
which I split up when I got home, and got over twenty beetles 
out of it. When getting them out I noticed they gave a little 
squeak, which was repeated when held between the finger and 
thumb, and also when I dropped them into hot water to kill them; 
they were all of the pink colour mentioned by Mr. Bignell 
(Entom. xvi. 214). I intended to have kept a watch on the 
bush to have further observed the habits of this species, but some 
of the pic-nic parties very shortly afterwards broke the bush off— 
as it was quite dead—and burnt it, so that it put an end to my 
observations. I have no doubt the bush must have contained 
some hundreds of individuals, as it was infested from the ground 
to branches no thicker than your finger.—Joun Hit; Whittaker 
Lane, Little Eaton, Derby, September 12, 1883. 
DovuBLEDAY COLLECTION AT BETHNAL GrEEN.—I have pleasure 
in informing your readers that the Doubleday Collection keeps 
up its interest among entomologists, and that it is visited by large 
numbers for the purposes of reference and examination. — F. 
Cours; Bethnal Green Museum, October, 1883. 
