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30. Galleria cereana. — I could have wished to have sent 

 you a little history of Galleria cereana, which most sadly 

 annoys a relation of mine, who is an apiarian. He has burnt 

 all fragments of comb where there were traces of them, searched 

 out every hole and corner of his apiary, and apparently got 

 rid of the dirum tinece genus, as the auteur sans detail t calls 

 them. But no such thing. 



" Duris ut ilex tonsa bipennibus 

 Nigrae feraci frondis in Algido 

 Per damna, per caedes ab ipso 

 Ducit opes animumque t'erro. 

 Non Hydra — 



But stop, I am getting into the style of Senior Tomas de la 

 Fuente, or Padre Is la's friar, for which Corderius Secundus 

 has so quizzed me. 



Well then, to come back to the tinea. This year he sent 

 me a cigar box full of comb and larvae. They spin, as you 

 perhaps know, all the fragments of the comb into a mass im- 

 penetrable to the poor bees, who, being imprisoned, of course 

 die in double quick time. The comb was soon almost entirely 

 devoured, and replaced by the cocoons which the larvas spun. 

 From this mass I had about three hundred, if not more, moths. 

 I distributed near two hundred specimens among entomolo- 

 gists, and have still many by me ; but such lots came out that 

 I got tired of setting them, so I gave them to my brother's 

 nightingales. Edward Doubleday. 



31. Medeterus loripes. — The Medeterus, which you pro- 

 nounce to be loripes, attracted my attention one fine day last 

 spring, as I was walking in the woods here. It was flying in 

 circles just above the water, in an old gravel pit, occasionally 

 darting down to the surface of the water. On watching awhile 

 I found that the object of its attack were some very small 

 Tliysanura, which, from their agility, it seemed to have much 

 trouble in capturing. However it at last secured one, and 

 whilst sucking this I caught it. Edward Doubleday. 



32. Plujtomyza flava. — I received this insect from my rela- 

 tion Mr. L. Squire, as he has just commenced the study of 



