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and is already crowded with Agrotis Segetum, A. exclama- 
tionis, &c. When in full blossom, later on, 1 have found 
Aplecta adveua, Leucania conigera, and Mamestra anceps, 
frequenting it in great numbers, as well as stray specimens of 
better species. I first discovered the intoxicating power of 
these flowers last year by noticing the countless numbers of 
bees they attracted during the day. I am not aware whether 
the shrub is at all common in gardens; but the three or four 
I work were planted two years ago in a very heavy soil, and 
thrive wonderfully.—Gilbert H. Raynor ; Hazeleigh Rectory, 
Maldon, June 19, 1875. 
Visitors to the Trees sugared for Moths.—To the well- 
known visitors to sugar I can add the great green grasshopper 
(Acrida viridissima): I suspect it came to feed on the 
moths, not on the sugar. At Deal I once saw one eating the 
body of a moth; the moth meanwhile sucking up the sugar 
as if nothing were amiss. At Bishop’s Wood, Hampstead, I 
used to see a smaller representative of the great green grass- 
hopper (Meconema varia, I believe), which certainly took 
the sugar. Iam almost sure I saw the dormouse often at 
Bishop’s Wood at sugar. I never tried to catch them, but 
remember admiring their fuzzy tails, so that I do not think I 
mistook longtailed field-mice for them. The longtailed field- 
mouse I never saw at sugar. Here they abound, to the 
detriment of my excursions; but though 1 have sugared 
every summer for six years, | have not seen one at sugar.— 
John T. Boswell (formerly Syme); Balmuto, Kirkcaldy, N.B. 
On Polydrosus sericeus.—With the exception of one 
specimen, captured near Winchester last year by Mr. W. A. 
Forbes, I believe this beetle has not been taken in England 
for upwards of forty years; and even previous to then it 
would seem not to have turned up very abundantly. The 
National Collection in the British Museum only contains 
three specimens,—two perfect, and one mutilated. My 
friend Mr. F. Smith possessed one pair in his private 
collection, which were given him by the late Rev. Mr. Rudd, 
rector of Kimpton, who took them in this neighbourhood. 
The insect was quite unknown to me until Mr. Smith kindly 
pointed out its distinctive characters when examining the 
specimens in the British Museum. Beyond the fact of its 
being captured in a wood near here, I could glean no 
information respecting its economy; therefore did not know 
