486 bisects. 



one specimen in Brundon-lane on the 24th of July. Eupithecia venosata : in Brun- 

 don-wood and lane, May and June, not rare. Paracolax nemoralis ; one specimen in 

 Brundon-lane on the 12th of June. Hypena rostralis ; took one specimen of this rare 

 moth in Brundon-lane on the 1st of June. Spilonota fcenana; one specimen taken in 

 a lane at Great Cornard. — W. Gaze ; Ballingdon, Sudbury, December 15, 1843. 



Note on Lepidoptera bred from Larvce. The following were hred from larvae found 

 feeding- on the common currant, in my garden at Ballingdon during the past summer. 

 JEgeria Tipuliformis Halia vauaria Electra spinachiata 



Amphipyra pyramidea Cidaria fluctuata Abraxas Grossulariata 



Polia flavocincta Steganolophia prunata Diaphania forficalis. — Id. 



Note on Captures of Coleoptera near Sudbury in 1843. Pristonychus subcyaneus ; 

 one specimen. Chlamius nigricornis; plentiful on the water-plants by the Stour in 

 April. Calathus melanocephalus ; one specimen at Great Cornard in September. Hy- 

 dronomus Alismatis ; abundant on the leaves of the water-plantain, in the middle of 

 a ditch at Henny, May 4th. Cleonus sulcirostris ; two specimens at Great Cornard 

 and one at Lamarsh, April 24th and May 10th. Monochamus sutor; on the 25th of 

 July I had two specimens of this rare beetle brought me by a labourer who found them 

 crawling on the grass near some old poplars, alders and willows at Henney, about two 

 miles from Ballingdon. Saperda populnea ; took one specimen from an aspen at Bul- 

 mer-wood, and another from a post at Ballingdon. Callidium variabile ; rather plen- 

 tiful in the brick-yard of R. A. Allen, Esq. Chrysomela sanguinolenta ; one speci- 

 men at Great Cornard on the 23rd of April. Helodes Phellandrii ; abundant in the 

 corolla of the buttercup in Friars' meadow, Sudbury, on the 24th of April. — W. Gaze; 

 Ballingdon, December, 1843. 



Note on Locusts in India. Extract from a letter to Dr. Bostock from his son, dated 

 Agra, Oct. 21, 1843, describing the occurrences of a journey from Allalabad. " Be- 

 tween Cawnpore and this place I witnessed one of the extraordinary phenomena pecu- 

 liar to tropical climates, viz., a flight of locusts. The direction of the flight was nearly 

 due east, and the rate four miles per hour : and you will form some idea of the im- 

 mense host, when I tell you, that travelling at the same rate and in the opposite 

 direction, I was between two and three hours in passing through them. During the 

 whole time, the horizon, as far as the eye could reach, was darkened, and every nearer 

 object was obscured. On looking directly upwards the appearance was that of a very 

 heavy snow-storm, and the ground, which was covered by them, resembled the fields 

 strewed by the dried leaves of the autumn. Several of them flew into my palken. 

 They were 2\ inches long, of a pink colour, marked with dark brown. The poor na- 

 tives were shouting and endeavouring to prevent their devouring the crops, to which 

 they prove most destructive." — Proceedings of the Linnean Society, January 16, 1844. 



Enquiry concerning Naturalists' Note-books. In Loudon's * Encyclopedia of Gar- 

 dening ' is given a model of the Honble. Daines Barrington's ' Naturalist's Calendar,' 

 which we all know, was so successfully used by his friend, White of Selborne ; at the 

 same time mention is made of Graves's * Naturalist's Pocket-Book,' but of the plan 

 therein adopted I know nothing ; the fact of its being adapted to the pocket, gives it 

 a decided advantage over the ponderous quarto form of the former. Seeing that ' The 

 Zoologist' is entirely supported by those whose delight is to read — 

 * * " Nature's volume broad displayed, 

 And to peruse her all -instructive page." 

 It would greatly conduce to the economy of our time, could we hit upon a method 



