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  The 
  impalement 
  of 
  insects 
  upon 
  thorns 
  has 
  again 
  been 
  brought 
  before 
  the 
  notice 
  

   of 
  the 
  members 
  of 
  our 
  Society 
  (Proceedings, 
  April 
  and 
  September, 
  1852),* 
  from 
  which 
  

   it 
  is 
  evident 
  that 
  in 
  some 
  instances 
  at 
  least 
  they 
  are 
  not 
  placed 
  in 
  such 
  situations 
  by 
  

   birds. 
  

  

  M. 
  Davaine 
  has 
  noted 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  Mermis, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  intestinal 
  

   worms, 
  in 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Amara 
  similata, 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  France, 
  1851, 
  cxiii.) 
  

  

  Pbactical 
  Notes. 
  — 
  An 
  apparatus 
  for 
  destroying 
  mould 
  on 
  insects 
  by 
  the 
  vapour 
  

   of 
  boiling 
  spirits 
  of 
  wine, 
  discovered 
  by 
  M. 
  Victor 
  Ghiliani, 
  of 
  Turin, 
  has 
  been 
  com- 
  

   municated 
  to 
  us 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Curtis, 
  (Trans. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  n. 
  s. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  19). 
  

  

  An 
  efTeclnal 
  modification 
  of 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  sugar 
  as 
  a 
  bail 
  for 
  nocturnal 
  Lepidoptera, 
  

   viz., 
  by 
  dipping 
  pieces 
  of 
  coarse 
  cloth 
  in 
  the 
  solution, 
  and 
  hanging 
  them 
  on 
  bushes, 
  

   has 
  been 
  comnnmicated 
  to 
  us 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Winchester, 
  (Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  October, 
  1852). 
  

  

  M. 
  Bel 
  Her 
  de 
  la 
  Chavignerie 
  has 
  communicated 
  to 
  the 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  of 
  

   France 
  an 
  excellent 
  plan 
  for 
  collecting 
  moths, 
  by 
  suspending 
  cords 
  smeared 
  with 
  ho- 
  

   ney 
  and 
  water 
  between 
  trees, 
  to 
  which 
  the 
  moths 
  are 
  attracted 
  by 
  myriads, 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  

   Eut. 
  Fr. 
  1851, 
  civ.) 
  

  

  A 
  plan 
  for 
  capturing 
  moths 
  by 
  the 
  employment 
  of 
  rags 
  dipped 
  in 
  putrid 
  soap-suds, 
  

   as 
  practised 
  in 
  Western 
  Canada, 
  has 
  been 
  communicated 
  to 
  us 
  by 
  Mr. 
  S. 
  Stevens, 
  

   from 
  information 
  received 
  from 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  Bush, 
  (Proceedings, 
  June, 
  1852). 
  

  

  A 
  plan 
  of 
  rearing 
  Micro-Lepidoptera 
  in 
  jam-pots 
  covered 
  with 
  glass 
  tops, 
  the 
  food 
  

   stuck 
  into 
  water 
  in 
  phials, 
  inside 
  the 
  pots, 
  is 
  given 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Douglas, 
  Zool. 
  3494. 
  

  

  A 
  note 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Edwin 
  Brown 
  describes 
  a 
  new 
  mode 
  of 
  killing 
  minute 
  insects 
  by 
  

   placing 
  them 
  in 
  small 
  glass 
  phials, 
  which 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  plunged 
  for 
  a 
  moment 
  into 
  boiling 
  

   water 
  ; 
  likewise 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  kind 
  of 
  breeding-cage, 
  and 
  on 
  killing 
  large 
  

   insects 
  by 
  holding 
  them 
  in 
  the 
  steam 
  of 
  a 
  boiling 
  kettle, 
  (Zool. 
  April, 
  1852). 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Barron 
  has 
  also 
  published 
  a 
  note 
  on 
  the 
  mode 
  of 
  destroying 
  insects 
  with 
  chlo- 
  

   roform, 
  (Ibid.) 
  

  

  A 
  note 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Scott 
  recommends 
  collecting 
  insects 
  in 
  moss 
  on 
  fir-stumps 
  in 
  win- 
  

   ter, 
  (Ibid. 
  May) 
  ; 
  likewise 
  a 
  note 
  on 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  bruised 
  laurel-leaves 
  for 
  killing 
  in- 
  

   sects, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Walcott, 
  (Ibid.) 
  

  

  A 
  novel 
  plan 
  for 
  collecting 
  insects 
  is 
  suggested 
  by 
  Bremi 
  (Entomol. 
  Zeit. 
  Stettin, 
  

   May, 
  1852), 
  viz., 
  to 
  examine 
  the 
  excrement 
  of 
  toads, 
  which 
  often 
  contains 
  the 
  entire 
  

   bodies 
  of 
  beetles 
  &c., 
  occasionally 
  still 
  alive. 
  

  

  A 
  plan 
  of 
  preserving 
  spiders 
  by 
  immersion 
  in 
  weak 
  spirit 
  within 
  small 
  glass 
  phials, 
  

   is 
  given 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Meade, 
  (Zool. 
  December, 
  1852). 
  

  

  An 
  excellent 
  series 
  of 
  directions 
  for 
  making 
  and 
  preserving 
  microscopical 
  prepara- 
  

   tions, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Harteg 
  of 
  Utrecht, 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  Ann. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  October, 
  1852. 
  

  

  * 
  In 
  the 
  instance 
  of 
  the 
  humble-bee 
  observed 
  by 
  myself 
  at 
  Boulogne, 
  instead 
  of 
  

   being 
  blown 
  on 
  to 
  the 
  reed 
  by 
  the 
  wind, 
  as 
  stated 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Proceedings 
  ' 
  (p. 
  27), 
  the 
  in- 
  

   sect 
  had 
  evidently 
  been 
  impaled 
  whilst 
  stemming 
  against 
  the 
  breeze 
  with 
  all 
  its 
  power, 
  

   in 
  order 
  to 
  regain 
  the 
  land, 
  the 
  point 
  of 
  the 
  reed 
  being 
  directed 
  towards 
  the 
  sea. 
  Mr. 
  

   Hogan 
  has 
  recorded 
  a 
  nearly 
  similar 
  instance 
  occurring 
  in 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Anomala 
  

   Julii, 
  (Zool. 
  3493). 
  

  

  