198 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



[Certainly not ; your chrysalids are not British, that is, 

 they are reared from eggs or caterpillars received from 

 France. The interest attaching to the communication in 

 question is that the specimen was supposed to be a perfectly 

 wild one, a Fera Naturce. In my own estimation it is a 

 matter of very little moment whether a given specimen is 

 French or English, but that was just the pith of my corre- 

 spondent's communication, which was therefore of great 

 interest to those who attach a value to the exclusively British 

 character of their collections. — E, Newman.] 



Spider or Mouse ? — I am delighted to find Mr. Clogg 

 again in arms for his friend spider (Entom. v. 185). Like a 

 true Briton he does not know when he is beaten. I fancied 

 both spider and mouse had been in battle slain, and that bat 

 carried off the trophies of victory ; but then he certainly took 

 an unfair advantage, slyly waiting until his opponents had 

 disabled one another, and then pouncing down on the field, 

 armed with fresh and irresistible facts. The mouse is dead. 

 1 had him stuffed, and often look at him regretfully, fearing 

 he came to his end an innocent victim of circumstantial 

 evidence ; but it is very gratifying to find that the spider 

 only ran away, and lives to fight again. Perhaps Mr. Clogg 

 will be good enough to say what species of spider he has 

 experimented upon, and how the bodies of the butterflies 

 and moths were disposed of; for it was the total absence of 

 these, in the original find at llkley, which seemed conclusive 

 against spider, although not against bat or mouse. So far as 

 we know, spiders are incapable of swallowing anything 

 except liquids. — Edwin Birchall ; October 2, 1870. 



[I must entirely acquit Mr. Clogg of any desire to renew 

 the controversy : the passage in question was written for my 

 private informat'ron, but 1 thought others besides myself 

 would be interested in the facts observed. — E. Newtnan.] 



Return of Mr. Eedle Jrom Scotland. — Happy the ento- 

 mologist who lives in Perthshire, which seems to be one of 

 the richest entomological localities in the kingdom. It was 

 liere that Richard Weaver gathered in his harvest ; and here 

 that poor old Turner attained celebrity for his Petasia nube- 

 culosa, to which he declared himself kd by some little bird 

 that told of their whereabout; and 1 trust that on the same 

 ground Thomas P^edle may reap the reward of his industry 



