VARIETIES. ' S\5 



described in the article alluded to (XIX. p. 186), has been pre- 

 viously characterized, must supply us with references in proof 

 of the assertion, otherwise his communication is what he is 

 pleased to term Mr. Curtis's,— " waste paper." We however 

 caution our correspondents not to allow their zeal in making 

 genera and species to overstep the real object of such labour, — 

 the elucidation of the science. With the elegant epistle (on 

 the article in question) which dared us to omit its publication, 

 we lighted our cigar ; we heartily wish all entomologists were 

 as willing as ourself to smoke the calumet of peace — Ed.] 



34. Aphides produced in the winged state.— Having paid 

 much attention to the hop-fly during the last summer, I was 

 not a little surprised at observing that the young of that insect 

 are born in the perfect state, and that some of them are 

 actually provided with wings. 



J. B , JUN. 



If'urcester, January 19, 1833. 



[This fact, we believe, is new to entomology ; we therefore 

 beg to say we are personally acquainted with the writer, and 

 cannot doubt his veracity. — Ed.] 



S5. Tgnis fatuus. — The insects which were found (see p. 216) 

 in digging up the mud of an old pond, must have been the 

 larvae of some large Lihellula. I am surprised you should 

 think they were the mole-cricket; for though that insect 

 frequents damp situations to a certain extent, I never heard of 

 its burrowing in the mud of a pond. I forbear making any 

 observation on that strange phenomenon, but I have long 

 thought it to be the Lihellula. James W. Bond. 



[Mr. Bond furnishes us with many remarkable instances of 

 tenacity of life in insects ; the most remarkable of which is one 

 of a moth {Phlogophora metictilosa) which appears to have been 

 caught flying about without a head, and which lived in that 

 state about thirty-six hours. — Ed.] 



SQ. Motion of legs, Sfc. in Water-beetles. — Having brought 

 home, a short time since, a number of water-beetles alive, 

 I put them into a large white bason, for the purpose of 

 observing their actions: I found that all the carnivorous beetles 



