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which I attributed to some accident, but was surprised that it was equally wanting 

 after it had shed its skin. — Wm. Turner ; Uppingham, Rutland, October 16, 1844. 



Description of Cochylis rutilana, a new British Moth belonging to the natural order 

 Tortricites. This little insect has been obligingly sent me by Mr. Bedell, in order that 

 I might figure and describe it in 'The Zoologist.' The head is fulvous ; the eyes and 

 antennae are nearly black ; the thorax is nearly black, its tippets being fulvous ; the 

 abdomen is dark plumbeous, inclining to black, the margins of the segments being 

 fringed with grey hairs : the fore wings are ferruginous, with three distinct, and one 

 obscure, transverse golden fulvous fascia; ; the first of these is situated near the base 

 of the wing ; it is short and broad ; it touches the costal, but not the inferior margin 

 of the wing : the second fascia is placed rather before the middle of the wing ; it is 

 longer than the first, and just reaches both margins; the third fascia is somewhat 

 oblique, and is interrupted by an elbowed band of the ferruginous ground-colour. Just 

 with the extreme margin of the wing is a fourth fascia of the same colour ; this is 

 narrow, very obscure, and is interrupted near the middle : the cilia are golden-testa- 

 ceous. The hind wings are nearly black, with 

 long ash-coloured cilia. The expansion of 

 the wings is "45 inch. The insect was accom- 

 panied by the following note from Mr. Bedell : — 

 " On the 7th July last, while beating the ju- 

 niper-trees on Sanderstead Downs for Macro- 



chila marginella, I obtained five specimens of / \ 



a small Tortrix, which at the moment I took Cochylis rutilana, magnified, 



to be Argyrolepia tesserana ; however, on further examination, I found it was entirely 

 new to me. On showing the specimens to Mr. Stephens, he at once pronounced it to be 

 a species new to Britain, and on referring to Hubner, we found an excellent figure 

 of it under the name of Tortrix rutilana. Mr. Douglas has also two specimens, one 

 of which he captured on the same day that I obtained mine, but on another part of the 

 Downs, the other he took subsequently either on Mickleham Downs, or Box Hill, 

 where the juniper is as abundant as at Sanderstead.'' 



I may, perhaps, be allowed to state, that on a careful comparison of Mr. Bedell's 

 insect with Hubner's plate of Tortrix rutilana (Tortrices, 247), I do not find the 

 resemblance so exact as it has appeared to Mr. Bedell ; the singular character of the 

 interrupted third fascia is not given by Hubner. I am, however, so unwilling to mul- 

 tiply names, that I prefer placing it as a variety of Hubner's rutilana. — Edward 

 Newman; 2, Hanover-street, Peckham, October, 1844. 



Note on the habits of the Honey Bee. The early and favourable notice of the Rev. 

 C. Cotton's ' Bee Book,' was regarded as an earnest of much interesting information 

 upon the subject of bee-management, being communicated by ' The Zoologist.' But 

 not much intelligence of this nature has as yet been given through its pages, than 

 which there is no more fit medium for imparting the result of observations upon the 

 nature and habits of so useful an insect, when it is kept in Nutt's collateral boxes. 

 This method of preserving bees lost an able advocate, when the learned and amiable 

 Mr. C. left the shores of Britain for New Zealand. Perhaps some of the numerous 

 readers of ' The Zoologist' would be able to communicate what success attended his 

 bee management in that distant island. The class of men for whom he wrote his ' First 

 Plain and easy Letter,' are so rivetted to the old and barbarous plan, that it would 

 require a constant fire kept up against their prejudices, and that for a generation or 



