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raological Botany, more especially with reference to the plants fre- 

 quented by the Tineina. This work promises to be very useful : it is 

 on the plan of Martyn's 'Aurelian's Vade-Mecum,'* published at 

 Exeter in 1785, and a work which the late Mr. Stephens highly 

 prized: it is an almost forgotten but invaluable witness to " the light 

 of other days." Mr. Harding, the President of the Society of British 

 Entomologists, has taken up the same subject, and has made various 

 observations on the pupa-cases and food-plants of Micro-Lepidoptera: 

 these will be found in various numbers of the ' Zoologist.' 



In the January number of the 'Zoologist' I had the pleasure of 

 recording the capture of Zygaena Minos in Ireland, by Mr. Milner, of 

 Nunappleton, and in the September number are some valuable remarks 

 on this interesting insect by Mr. A. G. More, who informs us that it 

 occurs all around Castle Taylor, Ardrahan, and that he has traced it 

 within the limits of the county Galway as far as Garryland : it is more 

 particularly abundant towards the sea: it appears about the first week 

 in June, and is in perfection until the middle of the month ; it then 

 swarms on many parts of the rock-strewn pasture so characteristic of 

 the mountain limestone district of the West of Ireland. 



In the December number of the 'Zoologist 'is a minute description, by 

 that indefatigable collector Mr. Bold, of a brachelytrous insect, which 

 he has called Lathrobium carinatum : the very careful description has 

 enabled our excellent curator, with little hesitation, to identify the 

 species with the Lathrobium denlatuni of Kellner, described at page 

 414 of the 'Entomologische Zeitung'for 1844; but even under the 

 altered name the insect is new to this country, and an interesting ad- 

 dition to our insect Fauna : two specimens only have come under 

 Mr. Bold's notice ; one, a male, taken by himself under gravel by the 

 river Irthing, in Cumberland ; the other, a female, in a similar locality, 

 on the Devil's Water, Northumberland, by Mr. Wailes. 



In the same number of the ' Zoologist' is a notice of the occurrence 

 of Dytiscus lapponicus in the Isle of Mull, together with a copy of 

 Gyllenhall's description. The Rev. Hamlet Clark, who made this 

 interesting discovery, says that he took four specimens on four different 

 occasions, in a very deep lake in the Isle of Mull, in September,, 

 1854. Mr. H. Clark expresses his belief that the Dytiscus septen- 

 trionis, distinguished by the smooth elytra of the female, will be 



* ' The Aurelian's Vade-Mecum ; containing^ an English Alphabetical and Linnean 

 Systematical Catalogue of Plants affording nourishment to Butterflies, (S:c.' By M. 

 Martvn. Exeter: 1785. 8vo. 



