t E. Eh 
5 
= behind that the pnis of ; the honey that these cater illars subsist, ba ES 
T Nr, a very intelligent gardener, who} only by cee 3 from be ral, two or three of the | the wax itself which a ves them fo rd bu 
has a 5 5 garden forcing establishment at Ver- the sign 3 bx Pe gen ph W a rok sina $ 
moths w 
sailles, states that up to t 25th of April o dition |" eo sae it a fuels “ike those of the male silk moths, | must aiso f rom hee aë ecomposition of ‘hein tod and 
resent year, his forced Vines were in aee condinon. . ng evident" that the courtship and coupling of the —.—.— o no -- w any solvent of wax: 
The ey had been attacked by the mildew aki insects took place on the outsi e wire If, — te rr 1 u “flirt the ho ey-cells, ew 
they commenced to vegetate ; but a sing ois ne fore, a sharp look-o Ae -= fire e 
of the hot-water pipes was sufficient to cause its | 
disappearance, 
rn that in the course of his W 
be Ozone in plan 
it 1 
wing additional 
t ap 
at as observed the followi pity — —— amen 
he last fortnight | to be at all irritate h * i nd 
pe ey Bao ee der fai moths, as I have seen them runni ong the detached karpan: vie cells in ten the nymphs of the bees lie, 
in ag ps ants the app Akr ae tf = zone, | bees * the outside of the cluster, without creating an eati ere cover the also with 
in those that have flowered, looking a 0z0 farm ed hardly dwell upon the great advanta e | its 5 1 that they could scarce be 
having ofe cted its object, was no 8 55 sent; of ae the moths when they make their appear- known $: ee be added that the worm; 
and Mr. Stoney thinks t that the internal chem stry ance. as to prevent future mischief. nd in order | when in order = get food it creeps everywhere d 
of the vegetable system may possibly take anathee to ascertain whether the insects ha ved at the | about the nym ompresses and des m; this 
gro t on A e fly by one that is m 
as also 
similar 
1 18. eneng simila think 
that ‘this results are due to anything else contained 
in the vegetable 33 and if the discolouration 
were effected by such a cause it ii hardly be, 
as it is, alike in al cases. 
stained one ou 
two fro 
Tom Thu mb Geranium. tr Tom "Thumb that had 
gone afforded no resu 
It is to be observed that those who try thes 
en ate must ei sure their iodide of poliai 
pure, and the papers prepared as formerly 
ditected. and they must not be discouraged if they 
in s mar nces no indication SIDNEY 
is quite ai ced, we understand, t that either a 
2 ter Kaye tending oe act like ozone, is eS sent at 
rtain mE of plan and no 
doubt for. peculiar chemical purpos ee which 
t is equal in the highest degree. 
t while the old wood of the Vine 
elds the indisations abundantly, the observer, 
after many trials, never found it in any young shoot. 
is 
Tue Amount oF RAIN WHICH FELL AT CHISWICK IN 
any corresponding month 
, Naya inch and a 
2 885 0 
the area of the Horticultural Garden, t the oe 
quantity of mpi of 14,200 t 
not proved too 
e as warm in 
~ ENTOMOLOGY. 
Tue SMALL Wax Mora, 
moths are now in full vigour, it may be 
of our apiarian readers : z 
nie ee of the species. 
* 
of moths more especially 
halæna cereana of Linnzeus (System 
ch 
expanse, These at — 
* extensively sided in ae sib — 
the ty sociella and T. sry of au perations by 
spect the N. octua ni and 
S teat, the 255 former of ech pani even 
o tri 
rvations 
to tho Galleria eee or smaller 
aving reason 
during the past — were infested with the 
I have paid 
on 
ront, gcd mary fi n 
wi 0 8 or on 
rc to nt of eh required 
0 
the body of which demands somewhat mo 
mischief is occasioned chie y 
excrement of the la: 
a i h a Abe wiss proves that it i upon 
be able to see their fronts, and then replace wax that the aye he b as it possesses much 
oth varies in the expansion of its fore | the character of wax, w has not, in fact, been entirely 
wings from 8 to s ; in repose the wings are nearly | assimilat me dam noticed that if the ex 
horizontally incumbent ; they are entirely of a very pale | be placed on a thin plat of glass, and put oy a burning 
brownish ash colour, the fore pair rather darker, a coal, it melts at first like wax, but rwards hardens, 
with the head yellow. The palpi are very short, almost | and like the burnt 8 ad, becomes friable between 
concealed by the hairs of the front of the head; ; the eyes | the fingers ; 35 r (who instituted some curi s 
e red bronze, and ka antennæ are short. In the shape Dou e in ordir $04 ascertain its nature), kept and 
of the wings a 3 of the palpi — sase reared of the moths from caterpill hich had 
differs from other wa oth, and it ha ord- | no — food than the excrements of their predecessors, 
mo 
ingly been a separated by H wa under 91 Sepia name 
of Achro: 
After coupling has taken place the female moths con- 5 
sine to enter the mouth of the hive ot the purpose of 
to detail the | cells 
two 
the larva state in beehives, namely, the | thread 
thors, and I |t 
rine ie especialy eet : 
n 
o suspect that 1 — . which I | form 
their eggs within and upon the 
adroitiy heraa: 55 de very rapid — 
hie e 
o catch, I ha the 
moths seated within the hive, at not more than half-an- 
ce uster of b bee Pror their taking 
ot even when I urbed it. 
red into oe eee. nibbles 
rere and so des 8 the cells 
few 
f. 
its DRR al along the bases of the cells and so 
to . the following season must not be sto 
ar, 
i in 
ke a Second shift will be required i in n June or early i 
zept in the same glass 
hen full- site(s the. caterpillars agi Elongated ovil 
cocoons, covered on the outside also particles of 
i veal tie 
have not seen in 
r lepidopterous pupa, namely, 
to th 
| a double ridge along t the © back, extendin e extremity 
of the body, rhe evs is armed with several minute horny 
points. One res anker, a piece b, 
with the tube 25 a — five 
of the na nee size, seated on the comb, and N 
magnified. J. O. W. 
Pray 
= PIMELEA SPECTABILIS. ; i 
ripened, each — otw 
of showy — 
t-bound. 
ee 
pro ee: sve nec 
i 
geet ie 
y after pol 
= sini . — appear 2 have cas into the 99 7 mi 
and merd the 8 moist, and rather 
m advances the temperature m 
preserve a compact habit of growth. Plants © it 
than Jul the 
a ade cacy will be a suitable situation th 10 
duri mer. If very rapid Bros z 
ied .— 
double i by destroying the ae on both — of the 
b. It has bee d by some 
bees know their 
the 3 problems of the hive. an 
- h the bees of other 
tis upon pl 
This is a circumstance intimately counected with one of As soon 
ny violence 
binasi | 
will be fo 
rel A licle 
this subject, 
e done à 
time ; and it sir — better to ma ier ea 
after h ae 
