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published, as far back as 1781, by Bjerkander, in the ' Acta Holmiae,' 

 p. 20 : the following translation of his notice will probably not be un- 

 interesting to many of my readers: — "On the 9th of May, 1780, as 

 the raspberry -bushes were beginning to put forth their leaves, I noticed 

 some red maggots, which had eaten through the buds into the stems; 

 on the 30th of the month they had spun silken cocoons, and on the 

 23rd of June, when the raspberry-bushes began to bloom, the moths 

 made their appearance. On the 4th of August, when the raspberries 

 were ripening, we observed the same sort of caterpillars (then one line 

 long) seeking their food on the receptacles, and we continued to see 

 them until the end of the month ; probably they go down to the ground, 

 and live through the winter without feeding, but in the spring they seek 

 their proper nourishment. Since from four to eight of these wretches 

 were on one stem, and injured (if they did not quite consume) the buds 

 which would have produced leaves and flowers, w r e can perceive why, 

 in some years, the delicious raspberries are less abundant." 



The next raspberry-feeder I have to mention has not yet been found 

 here, though it certainly will be before long ; the moth is a spotless 

 gray Hyponomeuta, with a ferruginous head ; it is the Stannella of 

 Thunberg : this species has not yet been bred, but a gregarious Hy- 

 ponomeuta larva has been found in Silesia on the Rubus Idaeus, which 

 is suspected to belong to this species. 



H. T. Stainton. 



Mountsfield, Lewisham, 

 December, 1855. 



Proceedings of Natural-History Collectors in Foreign Countries. 



Mr. H. W. Bates.* — " Villa Nova, Province of the Amazons, Sep- 

 tember 12th, 1854. — I had prepared all arrangements in April for as- 

 cending the upper river, having ascertained at length the arrangement 

 of the steamer from Ega. Villa Nova is a peculiar locality : in 

 December, 1849, in two or three days I was astonished at the num- 

 ber of nevv things 1 met with, but at present I have been disappointed; 

 the ground which I hunted then is as yet under water, and I suppose 

 the right season for the locality is from November to about February. 

 Of Erycinidse, at present, 1 have seen scarcely any; Nymphalidae are 

 more abundant, at present, however, few new (one new Timetes, one 

 new Agrias(?), one new Heterochroa, one Pyrrhogyra, &c.) ; Morphos, 



* Gominumcateil by Mr. S. Stevens. 



