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did not look for the eggs until some time afterwards, when I found those 
of which the inclosed are a sample. However, I think if you find them 
to sete toa TROR insect, there can be no doubt but sai are those 
of A. sinuosa. — JAMES ANGUS. 
HIBERNATION OF WILD BEES ae beg leave to say that I think you 
have made a mistake in supposing or stating that the females only, 
and not the males of Ceratina dupla, survive the winter. Both sexes, 
according to my observations, hybernate, as py ce aa Virginica. 
beg o re ou say,* wi 
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tities, and not unfrequently males also. While this is the case with some 
species, I think what you say is correct with regard to others. — JAMES 
ANGU 
JUVENILE NATURAL History Socrery.—We have in this city per- 
haps quite a T curjosity, na mely, a re ear of Natural 
History, composed of boys less than twenty year age. We have 
been organized two years, and are now in a very haar hire condition, 
although it was hard ‘‘tugging” for a few of us the first year. We cave, 
for us, a large collection, and a good one, numbering some eight hun- 
dred specimens. We cannot, of course, do much at research, but we are 
coming surely along the road you older naturalists have gone; and, b 
and by, when we get on the frontier where you are, you will hear from 
us.—G. W. a arend nd ae? Michiga 
PROTECTION ROM Insects.—The quantity of fruit ge- 
stroyed wich iss -E cae their eggs in the blossoms is enormous. 
odor of which is enough to drive them away, and, in some cases, to des- 
troy them, and nothing more is required than to sprinkle the branches 
with a mixture of vinegar and water at the moment the blossoms begin 
to appear. The so at consisting of one part of strong vinegar to 
nine parts of water, can be sprinkled over the flower-buds by means of 
a garden engine or syringe, or even with a watering-pot with a fine nose. 
— Proceedings of the Entomological Society, JATHA 1866. 
OCCURRENCE OF THE BARNACLE GOOSE IN NORTH AMERICA. —AÀ speci- 
men of this goose (Bernicla pia has recently been received by the 
Smithsonian Institution from Mr. B. R. Ross, a gentleman well known for 
his collections and publications riia to arctic zodlogy. It was obtain- 
ed by that gentleman near Rupert House, on James Bay (the southern 
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men brought to the notice of naturalists. It has for a long time been in- 
dicated as belonging to our fauna, but only on hearsay evidence of gun- 
ners and travellers, and it is not mentioned pi Richardson at all in his 
work on American Arctic Zoölogy.—S. F. B 

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