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traced through the Welsh Gwylan and Gwilym. Buzzard may be traced 

 through the French word buse. In reference to the bird's stupid and 

 sluggish habits, this has a second meaning of simpleton ; hence, " On ne 

 saurait faire d'une buse un epervier." — 0. V. Aplin. 



INSECTA. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Strange Hibernating Quarters for Vanessa io and V. urticse.— The 

 inside of a church-bell is a quaint hibernating place for butterflies, but I 

 recently (November) found one of the former and two of the latter inside 

 the bell at Colton Chnrch, in Furness, North Lancashire. Their sleep 

 must have been very deep to stand the sound caused by the clapper of the 

 bell. — Harper Gaythorpe (Prospect Road, Barrow-in-Furness). 



RHYNCHOTA. 



Enemies of the Cicadidse. — With reference to a recent conversation 

 with the Editor on this subject, I can state that some of the large Asilida 

 (Diptera) prey on Cicadidce. At Trincomali (Ceylon), in November, 1890, I 

 caught a specimen of Microstylium apicale preying on a small cicadan 

 (Tibicen nubifurca). Among the Diptera taken by Mr. Ogilvie Grant in 

 Socotra is a specimen of a Promachus sp. caught feeding on a small 

 cicadan. Probably both the Promachus and the cicadan will prove new to 

 science. — J. W. Yerbury (Army and Navy Club, Pall Mall, S.W.). 



[These unfortunate Cicadidce, sometimes advanced in argument as in- 

 stances of the advantage of ''protective resemblance," but which, as already 

 pointed out (Zool. 1897, p. 160), are alike preyed on by Birds, Spiders, 

 Beetles, Wasps, Hornets, Dragonflies, Mantida, are, as stated above by 

 Colonel Yerbury, also attacked by Diptera. They are attacked in the 

 egg condition by larvae of ichneumons, and also sometimes afflicted by a 

 fungoid growth. In Japan they are eaten by Trout. On the other hand, 

 Xenarchus long since wrote the ungallant couplet — 

 " Happy the Cicada lives, 

 Since they all have voiceless wives." — Ed.] 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

 Mammalia of Surrey. — As we are compiling a catalogue of the Mam- 

 malia of the above county, we should feel much indebted to any of your 

 readers if they would draw our attention to any published or private notes 

 relating to the subject, particularly with reference to the rarer species. Any 

 communications may be addressed either to John A. Bucknill, Hylands 

 House, Epsom, Surrey; or to H. W. Murray, F.Z.S., Woodcote Hall, 

 Epsom, Surrey. 



