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shows its natural length. Of course I made it my business to 

 learn what I could of its life-history, and the following 

 information was very readily acquired : — 



1st. Its food was scented orange Pekoe. 



2nd. It became a necromorphous chrysalis, of a pale 

 wainscot-brown colour, during the second week in July. 



3rd. It appeared as a perfect beetle before the end of 

 July, and was despatched in a quill to Dr. Power, who 

 at once pronounced it to be Anobium paniceum. It is 

 represented by the right-hand figure, and the line below 

 shows the natural length. 



In these memoranda I use the singular for convenience, 

 but the name of these grubs is " legion," for some of the 

 samples which have come before me were replete with them, 

 amounting almost to a sixth of the whole sample. 



The insect was named paniceum by Linneus, from its 

 infesting and feeding on bread ; it is found eating almost 

 every substance that will yield to its masticating powers 

 — wheat, barley, bread, biscuit, wood, leather, cloth. 



It is a native or denizen of almost every country in 

 Europe, and its name appears in all our British lists, even 

 the oldest. I am unable to say whether it is also an 

 inhabitant of China, but this is highly probable : seeing, 

 however, that it is undoubtedly a resident in our London 

 warehouses, there is no ground for supposing it a recent 

 importation from the East, and it must remain for a time 

 doubtful whether the insect gained access to the tea in 

 China or in London. I shall still continue to investigate the 

 matter, and will report progress from time to time. I may 

 mention that the striation of the elytra in this beetle is far 

 less distinct than in the engraving. — Edward Newman, 



Argynnis Paphia near Scarborough. — I captured a speci- 

 men of ArgynnisPaphia on Oliver'sMount, near Scarborough, 

 in the afternoon of August 5, 1870. — Jesse Eccles ; 18, King 

 Street, Scarborough^ August 19, 1870. 



Pieris Daplidice near Portsmouth, — A female specimen 

 of PierisDaplidice was brought me last week by a Cheltenham 

 collector : he obtained it at Portsmouth, near which place it 

 was taken by his brother. — Herbert Marsden. 



PierisDaplidice at Brighton. — Mr. Swaysland, of Brighton, 

 called to show me a specimen of Pieris Daplidice which had 



