4578 Insects, 



Serialaria lendigera. At times abundant beneath the Hoe, Ply- 

 mouth ; parasitical on Halidrys siliquosa. 



Bowerbankia imbricata. On the beach to westward of Dawlish. 

 It is most abundant growing on Fucus serratus in the Salcombe 

 Estuary, two or three miles towards Kingsbridge. 



PS. In the former paper, I made some remarks on the Plymouth 

 trawlers, as to their overcharge for the refuse of the trawls, and I 

 spoke of it as worthless rubbish ; perhaps I was not justified in this 

 remark: the larger portion of the refuse of the trawls consists of fine 

 specimens of Antennularia ramosa; amongst it may also be found 

 the crustaceous Atelecyclus heterodon, and, in the Echinodermata, 

 beautiful specimens of scarlet Goniasters. 



William F. Templer. 



Oban, Argyleshire, 

 December, 1854. 



On the Corporeal Sensations of Insects. By Octavius Pickard- 



Cambridge, Esq. 



The accusation of deliberate cruelty that has, by many humane 

 and well-meaning persons, been cast upon the prosecution of the 

 science of Entomology generally, and upon collectors of insects (who 

 are not necessarily " entomologists," in the true meaning of the term) 

 especially, has by different friends been so urged against me, an 

 almost enthusiastic lover of the study and collection of this order of 

 creation. Although, from the earliest period of my collecting, con- 

 vinced of the comparative immunity of insects from what we call pain, 

 and subsequently strengthened in that conviction by observations both 

 in Entomology and other branches of Natural History — which is also 

 probably the case with most entomologists who have at all directed 

 their attention to the point — still I venture to put forth the following 

 considerations on this subject, hoping that more experienced physio- 

 logists than myself will add to them the results of their researches, and 

 that they may tend to remove from the minds of non-entomologists 

 the idea of our being unnecessary and merciless inflictors of pain upon 

 creatures, by their defenceless state entitled to our protection and 

 support. 



