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cosely, to be all that were possessed by the spider. — {Rev.) 

 O. Pickard- Cambridge ; Bloxworth, Dorset, December 8. 



Hybenial specimen of PJtlogophora rneficiilosa. — Yesterday 

 I picked up a specioien of Phlogophora meticulosa : il was 

 apparently only just out of pupa, as the wings were quite 

 limp. They are not unfrequently met with in November, but 

 I do not remember having a fresh specimen so late as the 

 12th of December. — G. T. Porritt ; Clare Hill , Huddersfield, 

 December 13, 1869. 



Food-plant of Abia sericea. — The larvae of Abia sericea 

 were feeding on the devil's-bit scabious [Scabiosa succisa) : 

 they had a very peculiar way of rolling in a ring, and throwing 

 out a kind of dew all over their bodies, just like that ob- 

 ser\ able on an ice-plant, when I touched them with my hands ; 

 but I did not notice the dew on them w^hen I touched them 

 with the lid of a pill-box that I was collecting them in. — 

 G. Lock ; Turkish Baths, Newport, Monmouthshire, Nov. 16. 



D(V>ycampa rubiginea in Monmouthshire . — On the 16th of 

 November I took one specimen of Dasycampa rubiginea on 

 ivy blossoms: it was in splendid condition. 1 cannot hear of 

 anvone ever taking any in this neighbourhood before. — Id. 



How the Scorpion feeds. — A friend having kindly brought 

 me a scorj)ion from the South of France, 1 have much pleasure 

 in recording the manner of his feeding. His diet has been 

 entirely confined to juvenile cockroaches: he has been ke])t 

 in a bottle very loosely corked, and provided with a wet rag 

 on which to repose at leisure or disport himself, exactly as he 

 might ])refer. When a young cockroach was dropped in, he 

 became excited, but was far too dignified to pursue, whatever 

 might be the state of his appetite. No sooner, however, did 

 the cockroach recklessly venture within reach than the scor- 

 pion seized it with both his claws, and, lifting the captive 

 high in air, seemed totally to disregard its violent struggles 

 for liberty : slowly and judiciously he curved his jointed tail 

 over his back, and then with the finger-like sling at the ex- 

 tremity inflicted the death-wound between two of the seg- 

 ments. Death followed almost immediately, and then the 

 scorpion ap])eared only to suck the blood of his victim : 

 a very carelul examination of the debris, including femora, 

 tibial and tarsi, did not disclose any symptoms of having 

 been gnawed, all these j^arts being left entire but detached. 

 — Edward A 'cwi)\ a // . 



