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eats its way out, retires under ground, and 

 changes to a pupa, appearing next year as a 

 perfect insect. 



Cerambyx raoschatus. One of our largest 

 and most beautiful indigenous beetles, may be 

 found abundantly in osier-holts in this and the 

 next month, where you have evidence of its 

 existence before it is seen, by the fragrant 

 odour which it emits. Its scent is not of musk, 

 as the name implies, but of the finest otto of 

 rose. Would it not have been better to have 

 adopted the synonym of De Geer (odoratus,) 

 or to have substituted that of roseatus, than to 

 perpetuate error by a scrupulous adherence to 

 the Linnaean name ? 



Saperda ferrea. This insect, lately recorded 

 as British by Mr. Curtis, was first captured in 

 this county more than a month previous to 

 its being taken near Manchester. With us 

 it is only taken during this month; the dif- 

 ference in latitude may account for the differ- 

 ence in time. 



Rhagium bifasciatum. Perhaps it may not 

 generally be known that this insect breeds in 

 the decayed stumps of the Scotch fir : such is, 

 however, the fact, for in the months of March 



