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I therefore venture, under correction, to differ from those who counsel dryness* 

 and suspect the losses sustained during their earlier changes to be owing to the 

 want of a certain vigour occasional moisture might supply. 



They gracefully swathe two or more oak-leaves round their silken tabernacle, 

 which is suspended from above by a substantial ligature. The moth generally 

 escapes by nine a.m., effecting its exit much in the manner of Satumia carpini. 

 The mechanism employed at the top of the cocoon with a view to easy liberation 

 appears more simple than that of carpini, judging from the very large aperture 

 which the mere internal pressure of the enclosed insect produces in a moment 

 where no external signs of one was visible. 



Surely a little practice might establish the worm in Ireland, and make it a 

 source of considerable profit to a peasantry not inclined to severe manual labour. — 

 Edward Hopley, 14, South Bank, Regent's Park, Octoher 12th, 1868. 



Hadena peregrina at Lewes. — A Noctxia, which proves to be H. peregrina, was 

 taken on the downs at the back of my house, by one of my school children. — 

 Maktha Meek, Lewes, Septemhe)\ 1868. 



Cramhus rorellus at Folkestone. — At the end of May last, I was fortunate 

 enough to capture a fine specimen of this rare species at the above locality. — E. G. 

 Meek, Old Ford, E., Odoher, 1868. 



Ortliosia suspecta at West Wickhami, — On July 15tli of this year, I took, at 

 sugar, a couple of specimens of 0. suspecta in West Wickham Wood, in good con- 

 dition and fresh. The same night I took Acronycta Ugustri. — Chas. T. Ckuttwell, 



Chcerocampa Celerio at Hucldersfield. — I beg to inform you that a specimen of 

 Choerocampa Celerio was taken by a woman, in one of the streets of this town, on the 

 26th of last month.— Geo. T. Porritt, Clare Hill, Huddersfield, 19th Octoher, 1868. 



Obituary notice of Dr. Ludwig hnhoff. — On Sunday, the 13th September, 1868, 

 at about three o'clock in the afternoon, there died at Basle, Ludwig Imhoff, Dr. 

 Med. et Phil., after a few weeks' illness, aged 67. 



A contemporary of the gifted J. J. Hagenbach, the continuance of whose 

 " Symbola fauna) Insectorum Helvetiae " he undertook ; a fellow-student and sub- 

 sequent collaborator with Prof. L. Agassiz (Nomenclator Zoologicus, Hymenoptera), 

 his name will for all time be connected with most of the Entomological undertakings 

 in Switzerland for the past thirty years or so, as he belonged to that small but 

 energetic band of naturalists who, between 1830-40, undertook to work out the 

 different branches of the Swiss fauna, the Orthoptera and Eymenoptera being his 

 chosen share. And if to this day we possess but fragments of his labours in these 

 groups, the fault does not altogether lie with him. As regards his doings in other 

 departments, the pages of the standard special works by Pictet, Hagen, Heer, and 

 a host of other workers, afford ample evidence of his constant energy in collecting 

 and observation ; and his universal knowledge of general Entomology is well shown 

 by his own works, " Die Insccten der Scliwciz," '* Gattungen der Riisselkafer," and 

 " Schweizerische Kiifergattungen," all fully illustrated hy Labram. 



