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spring their exclusion from the egg state. Many-coloured 
leaves are continually falling, or are wafted by the breeze, 
and are freighted with more or less limited companies of 
Aphides, which they convey peacefully to the earth, to 
mingle there with dust. Their futurity is secured in the egg, 
and the quiet close of their yearly life differs much from the 
summer period. They are not now destroyed by outward 
nor by inward enemies, and are free from the officious over- 
running of the ants, when the latter remark their growing, but 
transitory, abundance, and calculate on a proportionate 
supply of honey. 
3. Aphis-honey.— Bees find their honey comparatively 
prepared for them in flowers, but the honey by the medium 
of Aphides has various beginnings, and analysis may show 
whether it has a difference in quality by the difference in its 
origin. It is extracted from the crevices of old oak trees, 
from the twigs of young oak trees, from the roots of grass, of 
sow-thistles and of parsneps, from the nettle and the bramble, 
from the ivy and the honeysuckle, from the willow and the 
poplar, from the bog-myrtle and the sea-aster, and its sweet- 
ness has abundance of other sources. 
FRANCIS WALKER. 
Entomological Notes, Captures, §c. 
Cause of Shrivelling of Wings of Lepidoptera.—Will some 
of your correspondents assign a satisfactory reason for the 
shrivelling of the wings of Lepidoptera? There are doubtless 
several causes to which this imperfection can be traced. 
Amongst others is the scarcity of provisions when the larvae 
are about to be full fed, which will no doubt lead to this. 
When the feeding-house contains many larve of the larger 
sorts it is really difficult to provide them with sufficient pro- 
vender; and though you may supply them over-night with 
what you consider to be “fa heavy feed,” in the morning 
when you approach the breeding-cage, to your surprise, you 
find it contains nothing but sticks and stalks, and hungry 
animals. It requires an old hand to be able to cater properly - 
for creatures with such enormous appetites, and if the quantity 
of food is insufficient the result will be shrivelled-winged 
