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bowels. 4. It is good for them that have the cough or ptisiuk. 5. If a man take it 

 not as his common drink, but every now and then as physick, he shall receive much 

 benefit thereby, against quotidian agues, cachexies, and against all the diseases of the 

 brain, as the epilepsy, ^c. for which wine is pernicious. 6. It is very good against 

 the yellow-jaundice. 7. It is also a counter-poison. 8. It nourisheth the body, and 

 is consequently good against the consumption, and all emaciating diseases. 9. It is 

 the best thing in the world for the prolongation of life. Pollio Romulus (who was a 

 hundred years old) imputed the continuance of his health to this soveraign liquor, who, 

 being asked by Augustus the emperor, by what means especially he had preserved that 

 vigour, both of mind and body ; his answer was, Intus mulso, forts oleo, by the use of 

 metheglin inwardly, and of oyl outwardly. The same thing is manifested from the 

 example of the ancient Britains, who have all along been addicted to meath and 

 metheglin, and than whom no people in the world had more clear, beautiful and health- 

 ful bodies ; of whose metheglin, Lobel writeth thus : Carnbricus ille potus methcegla, 

 est altera liquida, et limpida septentrionis theriaca. The British metheglin, says he, is a 

 sort of liquid and clear treacle of the north." — p. 133. 



Dr. Bevan's 'Honey Bee' is a well known work on the same 

 subject : its publication will be fresh in the memory of many of our 

 readers : the estimation in which it is held is sufficiently manifested 

 by the call for a second and enlarged edition. It is our honest 

 wish that each of these works may bring an abundant honey-harvest 

 to its author, and thus remunerate him for his labours on behalf of 

 bees and men. K. 



Short Communications about Insects. 



Description of Erycina Margaretta, (White). Wings above and 

 below bright saffi'on yellow; the upper wings above, at the tips, have 

 alternate bars of dark brownish black and white, 

 diminishing in length towards the posterior tip, 

 where the orange- saffron colour of the general 

 surface runs to the margin, forming a short bar, 

 as broad as two of the others taken together: 

 this is followed by a small, triangular, brownish- 

 black spot ; the dark brown bars and this spot 

 line the nervures of the wing at the end : — in the lower wing the saf- 

 fron colour, near the margin, is digitated ; at the end of each of the 

 "fingers" is a small white spot; round the posterior margin there are 

 six triangular black spots, each of which seemingly is traversed by a 

 vein. The under side is very similar to the upper — the white spots 

 round the margin of the lower wing are much larger, and occupy near- 

 ly all the orange-saffron " finger." 



