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near the crown, whilst a third eats much deeper down the 

 root. It appears to me just possible that the idea that the 

 genus fed exclusively in or upon seed-heads may have 

 prevented our friend searching in quite as likely a place 

 lower down the plant. I pen this note to prevent a possibly 

 erroneous idea misleading other friends in the search for the 

 larvae of the little-understood genus Eupcecilia. — C. S. 

 Gregson ; Fletcher Grove, Edge Lane, Liverpool, January 

 15, 1871. 



Gelechia confinis of Stainton. — On perusing the * Entomo- 

 logist's Annual' for 187 J (page 98) I find an insect reported 

 as a "new species in 1870," under the above name, which is 

 evidently Gelechia stolidella of Gregson, published in the 

 Eev. F. O. Morris's * British Moths,' plate 108, fig. 1, and 

 drawn from my Manx specimens : this species has long been 

 separated from its congeners in my collection, and English 

 specimens before me do not differ from the Manx ones. It 

 is not pleasant to have so soon to destroy a part of the " very 

 little work" which, according to the 'Entomologist's Annual,' 

 has been done in Lepidoptera during 1870 ; but I feel sure 

 I shall not be blamed for calling attention to this little over- 

 sight of work already done. — Id. ; January 21, 1871. 



Peronea proteana ofHerrich-SchceJfer. — From the remarks 

 on this species at page 92 of the 'Entomologist's Annual,' 

 one would be led to believe we were just on the point 

 of another muddle; but from my experience in breeding this 

 group I feel 1 shall not have to add the proposed new name, 

 — only to decide ''which is what:" I have bred hundreds of 

 the Peronea potentillana of Cooke from Comarum and 

 Fragraria, yet never could separate the larvge, or see them 

 into ought else. — Id. 



Is it possible to Drown a Flyf—Mainy persons, on reading 

 the title of this letter, will be apt to exclaim, What a very 

 stupid question ! Nevertheless it is the logical sequence of 

 some remarks which I find in a communication of Science- 

 Gossip, on "Flies in Liquor," in which it is asserted, on the 

 authority of Doctor Franklin, that some flies which had been 

 drowned in a bottle of Madeira wine sent from Virginia to 

 England, on being placed in the sun, revived and flew away. 

 It appears that the flies must have been in the wine many 

 months, and on the bottle being opened three fell into the 



