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the terrified cattle is well described by the poet Virgil. The 

 young larra, immediately on emerging from the egg, pene- 

 trates the hide of the ox, and inflammation speedily follows : 

 matter is produced, and on this the larva subsists underneath 

 the skin : when full fed the larva gnaws its way out and 

 falls to the ground, where it changes to a chrysalis, and soon 

 afterwards to a perfect insect. Its presence under the skin 

 is made known by lumps in the vicinity of the back-bone, 

 varying in size from a walnut to a small marble : on its 

 escape it leaves a round hole, and these are sometimes so 

 numerous as greatly to depreciate the hides. — E. Newman.] 

 Agrotis Ripce taken inland. — In your valuable work on 

 'British Moths' you state your belief that the sand-dart 

 moth (Agrotis Ripae) is found only near the sea. Having 

 this morning captured a specimen in my own garden, 

 I thought you might be interested in hearing of it, as we 

 are quite seven miles from the sea, although near a tidal 

 river. — J. C. Nosworthy ; High Street, Barnstaple, June 7. 



Death of Mr, Haliday. — It is with extreme sorrow that 

 I have to announce the loss to Science of Alexander Henry 

 Haliday, who died at Lucca on the 13th of the present 

 July. He was an original contributor to the ' Entomolo- 

 gical Magazine,' every volume of which journal is enriched 

 by his valuable communications. Mr. Haliday has for years 

 resided almost exclusively on the Continent, and his labours 

 have been but little known to the entomologists whom we 

 now see around us ; but his profound papers on Diptera, 

 and on the minute ichneumonideous parasites, have placed 

 him in the very first rank of entomological authors. — E. N. 



Death of M. Lacordaire. — Another distinguished author 

 is taken from our midst: M. Jean-Theodore Lacordaire, a 

 name familiar to every living entomologist, died at Liege on 

 the 18th of July, 1870, aged sixty-nine years and four months: 

 he was Professor of Zoology and Anatomy in the University 

 of Liege, an officer of the order of Leopold; a member of the 

 Belgian Academy of Sciences, and of the Entomological 

 Societies of France, London, Stettin, Berlin, the Netherlands, 

 Brussels, Russia, &c., &c. ; but these titles will add nothing 

 to the celebrity he has acquired by his indefatigable labours 

 in the cause of his favourite science. — Id. 



