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which occurs in several English dictionaries, such as Webster and Ogilvie, 

 as French. Some naturalists anglicize it as warine, e. g. Goldsmith. 

 Littre has it with a reference to Buffon, but without derivation, which is 

 not surprising, as it is a ' ghost-word,' a misreading or typographical error 

 for ouariue. The correct ouariue will be found in the book I have just 

 quoted, p. 252. In modern French spelliog it should, of course, be ouarive, 

 which is then seen to be merely a French disguise for the well-known 

 guariha, of which a good account is given by Mr. Bradley in the 'N.E.D.' 

 Similarly, the Brazilian maniba, the stalk of manioc, is called manive by 

 the old French voyagers, e.g. by Bellin, ' Description de la Guiane,' 1763, 

 p. 56." 



Mice, as is generally known, will devour lepidopterous pupse, but that 

 they will also indulge in larvae is the subject of a communication by Mr. 

 Carleton Rea to the last issue of ' Science Gossip.' The curator of the 

 Hastings Museum, Victoria Institute, Worcester, had secured last May 

 over fifty larvae of the large Emerald Moth {Geometra papilionaria). These 

 he intended to " sleeve out " on growing trees, but delayed doing so, with 

 the result that a Mouse or Mice broke into his collection, and destroyed 

 the greater part of the larvae. 



The ' Entomologist ' has recently reprinted the Address delivered to 

 the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society on Jan. 14th last by 

 Mr. E. J. Burgess Sopp. In it allusion is made to the ever decreasing 

 area of our forest land in this country, with special reference to Delamere 

 Forest. We read that, "on the authority of Mr. Fortescue Horner, one of 

 H.M. present Commissioners for Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, that 

 five and forty years ago the woodlands of Delamere extended to nearly 

 4000 acres, since which time 1800 have been cleared for agriculture, and 

 126 sold. At that period 750 acres of reclaimed land were already let out 

 as farms, a total which at the present day has grown to 2550 : so that from 

 1856 to the end of the century just closed the woodlands appear to have 

 shrunk from nearly 4000 acres to but little more than half their former 

 dimensions." This is a matter to be pondered over by all British naturalists. 



De. a. W. Alcock has placed us all under an obligation by printing, 

 as a separate memoir, " Zoological Gleanings from the Royal Indian 

 Marine Survey Ship ' Investigator,'"* As the author remarks in an intro- 

 duction, " so many of the biological observations made through the medium 

 of the ' Investigator ' are buried in reports that are not accessible, and so 



* Simla, 1901. 



