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present moment, it has never stirred, and, when pushed, merely moves a leg : as the 

 sun never shines on the place where it is, I have no doubt it will remain quiescent 

 until next spring. Now, if an insect, immediately after emerging from the pupa, 

 could thus become torpid, even in a room, how much more so when exposed to the 

 open air. In conclusion, I have only to state my firm conviction that there is hut one 

 brood of G. Rhamni in the year. — Joseph Greene ; Brandeston, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 

 September 5, 1855. 



Note on Aryynnis Lathonia. — Seeing we are making sundry investigations relative 

 to certain of the Rhoualocera, A. Lathonia amongst the number, I have a question to 

 ask, and I believe in doing so I am stating the wishes of many of my brethren. It is 

 this, that each party who possesses a specimen or specimens of this insect would 

 kiutlly forward a notice to the ' Zoologist,' stating when he captured them, where they 

 were captured, or how they came into his possession. There has been, it is currently 

 reported, a "job" lot, as the merchants say, distributed amongst various individuals, 

 and which have no more claim to be British than I have to a benefice : their 

 repinning allows them to be easily " seen through,'' and the flattening out of the 

 abdominal groove also proves them to be an admirable " gull." — John Scott ; South 

 Stockton, September 7, 1855. 



Note on the Breeding of Notodonta dictceoides, $c. — Having heard frequent com- 

 plaints from entomologists of the difficulty of breeding this beautiful prominent, I beg 

 to make kuown a method I have tried, and which has proved very successful. It is 

 as follows: — I procured a large flower-pot, and cut it in two, and cut a round hole in 

 a square piece of wood, so as to lit tight round the upper part of the bottom half of 

 the pot. This forms the bottom of my cage, which is made of thin slips of wood 

 about nine inches high, and covered over (including the top) with book-muslin. In 

 light cages of this kind, there is no difficulty in feeding up larva, provided ihey are 

 kept supplied with fresh food. I fill the pot with tine mould, mixed with rotten wood, 

 from the root of the aspens at Wanstead, leaving a few leaves on the top. When the 

 larvae have gone down, T take the pot out, and put it in a large cage in my garden, 

 where it stands winter and summer. This last-mentioned cage is of sufficient size to 

 hold four or five pots, is made of wood with paiuted lines in the sides, back and front, 

 and a slanting wood and fine wire top, which admits of a free circulation of air, and 

 prevents mould. In cages on this plan I have bred all my N. dictaeoides that went down 

 last season (ten in number), twenty-seven Asteris, twenty-three Flavicornis, and many 

 other insects. — William Machin ; 35, William Street, Globe Fields, Mile End, 

 September 3, 1855. 



Capture of Scolytus destructor in the North of England. — When at Gibside, in the 

 latter end of August last, I was not a little surprised to find seven specimens of Sco- 

 lytus destructor, in the bark of a felled elm-tree. They were accompanied by num- 

 bers of larvae, in all stages of growth. Whether this was a colony recently founded, 

 or the pest a denizen of our woods, is a question for future observers to determine. — 

 Thomas John Bold ; Angus' Court, Bigg Market, Newcastle-on-Tyne, September 6, 

 1855. 



The Vinegar Polype. — The French missionaries, Hue and Gabet, seem, from their 

 interesting narrative of a journey through Thibet and China, to have been more skilled 

 in the knowledge of men than of the animal or vegetable world. When in the Pro- 

 vince of Kiang-si, three hundred miles from the sea, they describe the want of vine- 



