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Insects. 



* Entomological Magazine,' and this opinion has many times been repeated ; moreover, 

 have never separated the two insects in the cabinet under my care. So that when an 

 entomologist of Mr. Harding's experience and habits of constant observation comes 

 into the field to break a lance with ine on this subject, I experience 

 " That stern joy which warriors feel 

 In foemen worthy of their steel." 

 Now I am able to tell Mr. Harding that the apod larvee feeding on Erodium cicutarium 

 at Deal, which he has above described, and which have been sent also to Mr. Logan, 

 who succeeded in rearing them, are those of a coleopterous insect, the beautiful Hypera 

 fasciculata. PS. — Will Mr. Harding j)ardon me il l also inform him that it was 

 Vanessa Alalanta, not Cynthia Cardui, that he found feeding on the pellitory .f* 

 See ' Entomologist's Intelligencer' for July 17, No. 94, }). 125. — Edivard Newman.'] 



Sound produced hy the Larva of Acheroniia Atropos. — Some few days since I be 

 came possessed of two specimens of the caterpillar of the death's-head moth {A. Atro- 

 ])os). Upon removing them one evening, for the purpose of supplying them with fresh 

 food, they emitted a singular noise, continuous and rapid, which I can only liken to 

 the sound produced by the sparks of an electrical machine. Every entomologist is 

 avvare of the peculiar noise emitted by the perfect insect (though as yet, I believe, the 

 question has not been satisfactorily solved), and of the statement made by Mr. Raddon 

 that the insect is able to produce the sound prior to its emerging from the pupa. I 

 do not, however, remember ever having read an account of the instance I mention, 

 and which can be confirmed by a gentleman present at the time. I should wish, 

 therefore, to ascertain whether the fact has ever been recorded, and, if so, I should 

 esteem it a favour if you would kindly furnish me with the authority. Does M. 

 Goureau, in his ' Memoir on the Sounds of Insects ' notice the fact.^ — John Edmund 

 Weatherhead ; Curator^ Town Museum^ Leicester^ July 21, 1858. 



Capture of P. Daplidice near Rottinydean. — On the 5th instant I had brought me 

 a specimen of P. Da])lidice. It had been taken on the same day near Eoltingdean, a 

 village near here, and was still alive when I had it. It is a female, and in very fair 

 condition. — John N. Winter ; 28, Montpellier Road, Brighton^ August 9, 1858. 



Picris Daplidice. — I beg to record the capture, near here, of this insect, yesterday. 

 There was a strong wind blowing at the time ; and as I was walking along, it rose from 

 the ground close to my feet to several feet above my head, when I distinctly saw 

 the green under side ; and shortly after its return to terra firma, it was pinned in my 

 collecting-box. It may be well to add that there is no doubt respecting its identity, 

 as experienced entomologists have seen it alive. — /. Pratt ; 35, Duke Street^ Brighton^ 

 August 6, 1858. — From, the ' Intelligencer J 



Anthrocera Minos in the West of Scotland, — I have not observed that Anthrocera 

 Minos has hitherto been taken in Scotland. I enclose one or two specimens captured 

 on the 26th of last month on the side of the road between Oban and Dunstaffnage 

 Castle, at the mouth of Loch Etive. I had no net, but managed to knock down eight 

 or ten with my handkerchief and to spit them for the sake of the locality, with fine 

 Highland pins. — Professor Wyville Thomson; 6, University Terrace^ Belfast, July 3, 

 1858.— J^/. 



Cossus ligniperda at Sugar. — Within the last ten days I have taken no less than 

 five specimens of C. ligniperda at suj^ar. They sit on the sugar very much in the same 

 manner as a Noctua, but perhaps rather closer than the majority of Noctua). I think 

 it is a fact beyond doubt that the Bombyccs do occasionally come to sugar, and 



