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and in the afternoon the female began to lay eggs ! Such 

 prompt proceedings as these are quite unexampled in my 

 experience of this genus. I have generally found great 

 difficulty in getting the Eupitheciae to pair. — {Rev.) Joseph 

 Greene. 



Euchelia Jacoheoe. — I bred the other day a female of this 

 insect with only three wings. The missing " limb" was the 

 right under wing : there is not the slightest trace of it. The 

 other three wings are fully expanded. This is not an 

 uncommon occurrence among the Geometrae, but I have 

 never seen myself, nor do I remember to have seen recorded, 

 an example of it in the Bombyces. — Id. 



Lyc(Bna Argiolus near Gateshead. — During the week I 

 have captured L. Argiolus pretty freely, flying and at rest on 

 the holly, at Gibside, the seat of Sir Wm. Hutt, M.P., and 

 six miles west of Newcastle. — T. H. Hedworth. 



Arrival of Beetles on the North-east Coast. — Towards the 

 end of last month the Friths of Moray and Cromarty were 

 covered with a species of small pseudo-tetramerous beetle 

 (Galleruca). The insects appeared first on Monday, the 

 18th, floating by millions upon a calm sea, and were after- 

 wards thrown up upon the shore in heaps by every tide. 

 This sudden arrival of such a multitude of insects must, it 

 would seem, be due to their migration, especially as it would 

 otherwise be difficult to account for their presence in the 

 sea. If then such a migration took place, it would be 

 interesting to ascertain, if possible, the point from which it 

 started, since we could then form some idea of the powers of 

 sustained flight enjoyed by these insects. Whoever will look 

 at a map of the neighbourhood will see that the Cromarty 

 Frith is merely an offshoot from the Moray Frith, and that 

 the latter has only one opening into the outer sea. The beetles 

 must therefore either have drifted in through this opening from 

 the North Sea, or have come to grief while flying over the 

 Moray Frith. Now this Frith, at its broadest part, is only 

 about nine miles across, and, if this were all the distance the 

 beetles had to fly, it would seem strange that none, out of all 

 the millions that failed, should have succeeded in reaching 

 ih© opposite shore, especially when we remember how hardy 

 these beetles are upon the wing. On the other hand it would 

 be equally strange if they drifted in from the North Sea, 



