692 ZOOLOGY. 
larvee of the Noctuide are also described for the first time ; among 
them Diphiera deridens Guenée (Fig. 107). Several new moths 
> Fig. 107. 
Fig. 106. 
machi 
Larva of Cerura. 
Fig. 108. 
Male, Female. 
Cucullia Speyeri. 
are described, among them Cucullia Speyeri (Fig. 108, male; F ig. 
109, female). The separate copies are in some cases accompanied 
by the finest photographs we ever saw. 
Encuisu Sparrow.—I noticed in your magazine for September 
Dr. Thos. M. Brewers defence of the European house sparrow, 
and being convinced that this little friend of man has been ma- 
ligned both in its native and adopted home, I desire to add my 
testimony as the result of careful experience and observation. — 
In January last I procured twelve European house sparrows in 
Boston, Mass., and had them sent to me by express. Two died 
from the effects of the journey, the rest I kept in my parn loft 
until April, when they were let out, or rather eight of them, 35 
two more were killed by a cat which got in the barn without my 
knowledge. . 
On our place we have a large number of pear and peach eet 
besides several maples, two walnut trees, an English oak 
shrubs and flowering bushes of various kinds. In our _ 
garden we raised during the past season three kinds of corn, r 
toes, cabbages, tomatoes, beets, carrots, onions, radishes, st 
berry tomatoes, horse radish, celery, several varieties of beans 
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