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the hornet. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with 
that opinion. Deceased was fifty years of age. 
[This is one of the best authenticated instances of death 
from the sting of a hornet that.I have ever met with, and I 
think admits of no doubt. The medical question of shock or 
poison is scarcely within my province, but I shall have 
occasion to say something of another sting shortly.—Hdward 
Newman. | 
Peat Insects.—If any of your readers could give me the 
names of any insects, Myriapods, or Arachnida, that have 
been found in peat, marl, or any of the later tertiary deposits 
of the United Kingdom, I shall be thankful. I am about 
to publish a list of all the fossils of the Upper British 
Tertiaries, and have only the following in my list, gathered 
from many sources:—Atopa cervina, Buprestis sp., Cas- 
sida sp., Chrysomela sp., Cimex sp., Coccinella sp., Copris 
lunaris, Cossyphus sp., Curculio sp., Donacia linearis, Dy- 
tiscus sp., Elater lineatus, Harpalus sp., Licinus sp., Oiceop- 
toma dispar, Oreina sp., Phryganea sp. The locality and 
matrix in which the forms are embedded is requested, as well 
as the names of the organisms.—Alfred Bell; 5, Grafton 
Street, Fitzroy Square, July 25, 1874. 
Answers to Correspondents. 
Miss A. Steele Perkins.—In the pursuit of moths and 
butterflies I am continually meeting with other beautiful 
or curious insects, about which I can obtain no information 
in this decidedly unentomological part of the country. I 
therefore write to ask if you will let me know whether there is 
such a thing as a beginner’s book on Entomology, containing 
information as to the number, names, and natural order, of 
the great divisions of British insects; the habits, metamor- 
phosis, &c., of the different classes; the number of species 
in each class; and the manner of collecting and preserving 
them.—Anne Steele Perkins; Ashgrove, Ruabon, April 21, 
1874. 
[As a first book, quite for beginners, the ‘ Insect Hunters,’ 
price 2s, Gd.; as a complete introduction to the Science, 
Newman’s ‘ Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects,’ 
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