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the females. In due time the females laid their eggs, from 

 which I succeeded in rearing caterpillars. I beg to instance this 

 fact, in support of the ai-gument against insects having the 

 same feeling as warm-blooded animals, which is given in the 

 very interesting article, called CoUoquia Entomologlca, in 

 your last number. William Bond. 



15. Capture of Lej)tura scutellata. — Sir, This insect may 

 be taken in Hainault Forest, from the middle of June to the 

 end of July, on and in the decayed stems of the hornbeam. 

 In 1829, another collector and myself took upwards of a 

 hundred, besides a great many caterpillars and chrysalides ; 

 both these are white : the latter as they come to maturity 

 growing darker, particularly about the legs and antennae. 



William Bond. 



16. Locality and habit of Clytus arcuatus. — Sir, These 

 insects are also taken in Hainault Forest in June, on the 

 trunks of felled oak-trees, particularly those which are not 

 stripped of their bark : they run very quick, and are difficult 

 to capture, concealing themselves in the chinks of the bark, or 

 dropping down into the grass as soon as they perceive your 

 approach. They only appear when the sun is very hot: the 

 males are great combatants, frequently fighting until one or 

 both have lost parts of their antennae and legs. 



William Bond. 



17. Capture of Platypus cylindrus. — Sir, These insects 

 were taken by my old friend and instructor in entomology, Mr. 

 Bydder, out of the stumps of newly felled beech-trees in the 

 New Forest, Hampshire. In these they bore round holes, 

 from which it is very difficult to extract them : after trying the 

 smoke of tobacco and several other modes, he thought of 

 pouring water on the stumps, at which they came running out 

 in droves, and he took upwards of two hundred of them. 



William Bond. 



18. Monument to Cuvier. — All our readers are aware of the 

 death of this great man : in him naturalists lost the great pre- 

 ceptor, whose extraordinary talent and unrivalled research have 

 made them, in some degree, acquainted with the wonderful 



