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covered with seed these cocoons are not very obvious in the 
sample, but if submitted to a fine sieve the loose seed will 
readily pass through, and the cocoons with their destructive 
tenants will remain in the sieve. They can then be thrown 
into a basin of boiling water, and thus quickly destroyed. 
I hope my correspondent will endeavour to rear some of the 
perfect moths, and address them to a competent entomologist 
to obtain the scientific name. I shall have much pleasure in 
doing this if he knows no one more competent. If a sample 
of the seed be kept in a gallipot and covered with a piece of 
glass the moth will be sure soon to emerge, and will be seen 
resting on the under surface of the glass. ‘The larve are not 
likely to prove destructive to wood; but confine themselves 
to the seed-diet which they have spontaneously selected.— 
—Edward Newman. | 
W. N. Nicholson & Son.—Julus sabulosus.—The enclosed 
worms have been sent to us bya client in the west of Ireland 
to ask if we can identify them, and suggest any remedy for 
the ravages they are committing on sandy soils. Mr. Hadfield, 
of this town, has recommended us to send them to you, as 
being the most skilled naturalist that he knows in England ; 
and we should esteem it a great favour if you could furnish 
us with the desired information, 
[The creatures you enclose are Julus sabulosus, of various 
sizes and ages. They are very abundant in sandy soils, 
feeding on any vegetable substance they can meet with. It 
would be particularly interesting if you had described the 
nature of the ravages they are committing; what plants are 
attacked ; and how they are attacked. ‘The species of Julus 
seem to be generally vegetable-feeders; they frequent fruit- 
trees on walls, entering the fruit by little holes that wasps 
have bitten in the skin, and excavating the interior, in which 
they coil up, always lying on one side. There is a good 
paper on them in the eleventh volume of the Transactions of 
the Linnean Society, in which all the species inhabiting this 
country are described. As to a remedy for this, or any similar 
insect-plague, there is none; on the contrary, great injury is 
done to our gardens by placing confidence in chemists’ 
nostrums.—Kdward Newman. | 
Mr. Prince to Mr. Nicholson, on Julus sabulosus.—The 
insects I sent you attack all kinds of the cabbage tribe and 
