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“luminous centipede,’ or “winter glow-worm,” but is a 
native of Asia. He relates, on the authority of E.G. Ekeberg, 
the captain of a Swedish East Indiaman, that it dropped from 
the air, shining like a glow-worm, upon the deck of his ship, 
while she was sailing on the Indian Ocean a hundred miles 
from the continent. In Turton’s translation the statement is 
given rather differently, thus: “Scolopendra phosphorea 
inhabits Asia, and shines like a glow-worm in the dark; has 
been known to fall from the air into a vessel a éhousand miles 
from land, in the Indian sea.” Kirby and Spence, in repeating 
this narrative, make the following observation: “ However 
singular this statement, it is not incredible. The insect may 
either, as Linné suspects, have been elevated into the 
atmosphere by wings, with which, according to him, one 
species of the genus is provided ; or, more probably, perhaps 
by a strong wind, such as that which raised into the air the 
shower of insects mentioned by De Geer, as occurring in 
Sweden in the winter of 1749, after a violent storm that had 
torn up trees by the roots, and carried away to a great 
distance the surrounding earth, the insects that had taken up 
their winter-quarters amongst it.” (‘Introduction to Entomo- 
logy,’ vol. ii. p. 415.) What either of these learned authors 
may mean by assigning wings to a myriapod I am quite ata 
loss to understand. I hope Mr. Erskine will excuse the long 
delay in publishing this communication.—#. Newman.) 
F. J. Phillips—Tenthredo Crategi.—The larva of the 
enclosed I discovered feeding on quick hedge on the 12th of 
July, 1874, in the dusk of the evening. The perfect insect 
emerged from the pupa state on the 18th Apnil, 1875. I 
enclose with the insect the pupa-case. The larve left off 
feeding soon after I captured them, and assumed the pupa 
state on the 24th of July. Will you kindly oblige me by 
naming it? 
[I have little hesitation in naming this insect Tenthredo 
Crategi, notwithstanding certain discrepancies of character, 
one of which is very decided. ‘The cocoon, instead of being 
hard, glutinous, and firmly attached to a twig of hawthorn, as 
generally observed in T’. Crategi, is woolly, loose, and has 
been spun amongst the rubbish and earth at the bottom of 
the breeding cage: this may be the result of the larva not 
being provided with suitable twigs to which to attach itself, 
