8523 



Insects. 



and to the south are groups of dark hlue islets rising; mistily from the surface of the 

 sea, — glimpses of that mysterious archipelago, among the unknown islands of which 

 I cruised in bye-gone years. Large picturesque boats crowded with Koreans, in their 

 white fluttering robes, are putting off from the adjacent villages and skulling across 

 the pellucid water to visit the stranger ship. And now we choose a sheltered bay, and 

 commence paying out the seine. Koreans seated in groups, bare-headed or wearing 

 their broad-brimmed hats, smoke their pipes in silence. The rooks, in the tall and 

 glorious trees that fringe the bay, caw loudly with indignant remonstrance at the un- 

 wonted intrusion upon their quiet haunts, while the sailors, to the tune of their popular 

 songs, haul in the great net. Upwards of 170 pounds of bream and other fish are 

 taken. There are also toad-fishes and devil-fishes, sea-horses and swimming-crabs, 

 and among these I notice a great many individuals of a singular oviparous fish, most 

 of which have three or four living young ones in their bellies. I believe the fish 

 belongs to a genus described by Temminck under the name of Ditrema. As I stroll 

 away from the seining party, I meet with a singular species of Arum, with long 

 curling horns extending from its lurid spathes. I find the natives just as friendly 

 as when I visited the group in 1845. An old man, with a basket of sea-weed on his 

 back, stops and would fain persuade me to taste of his Laminarian dainty; a little 

 further on, a young lad makes a friendly advance by biting off a portion of lily-root, 

 offering me the remainder; while a little boy brings me wild raspberries strung upon 

 a straw. — Arthur Adams. 



On the Supposed New British Mygale (Zool. 8172 and 8202). — T had expected 

 that Mr. Robertson would have before this corrected the error into which he fell in 

 his notice of Dysdera erythrina as new to Britain (Zool. 8172). After some cor- 

 respondence with Mr. Robertson on the subject (during which he had the opportunity 

 of comparing his specimen with specimens of D. erythrina captured by myself), he 

 seemed to have no doubt that his specimen was of that species, and consequently was 

 a well-known British spider for years before his discovery of it at Brighton. — O. Pickard- 

 Cambridge ; Bloxworlh, Dorset, March 31, 1863. 



Species of Micropteryx Bred, — During the present month I have had the pleasure 

 of breeding the following species of this genus: — 



Micropteryx purpurella. Bred freely from whitish larvae with brown heads and 

 green dorsal vessels, mining the leaves of birch, in May last. 



M. salopiella. I have bred several of this species from whitish larva? with dark 

 brown heads and darkish dorsal vessels, feeding in birch leaves during May. 



M. semipurpurella. I bred a single example of this species along with M. purpu- 

 rella. 



M. subpurpurella. This I have also bred from whitish larva? with dark brown 

 heads, the second segments being dusted with darkish ; these larva? fed on oak leaves 

 in May last. 



I have tenanted cocoons of two other kinds of Micropteryx larva?, the imagos of 

 which I am expecting every day to make their appearance. It is fatal to the larva? to 



