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larvae. I then buried all the jars half-down in a box of earth, that no light 

 should get to the sides, and left them for about three months. I then care- 

 fully examined the sides of the glass jars, but could not detect one single 

 case below the surface of the earth ; I then carefully took out the layers of 

 leaves in all the jars, and found the cases were all concealed between the 

 decaying leaves, in exactly the same way as its congener TrietsHella, in some 

 instances there were as many as twenty cases all close together in one patch. 

 After carefully taking all the leaves out of each jar, I found numbers of cases 

 on the surface of the earth, I then removed all these cases off the surface, and 

 then turned the earth out of each jar on to a sheet of paper, but with all my 

 careful searching I did not find in any of the jars one solitary case that was 

 beneath the surface, so that I am quite convinced there must have been some 

 error in Mr. Healy's observations, or the jam pots which he generally used 

 must have been shaken by someone without his knowledge, and so the cases 

 became mixed with the earth. He also says the species is very difficult to breed, 

 which again is different to my experience, for by forcing in a temperature be- 

 60° and 70°, I have, during the end of last month and the early part of this, 

 had them emerging most freely. — G. Elisha, 122, Shepherdess Walk, City 

 Road, N., April 19th. 



Further Note on C. Brumata. — Whilst overhauling my papers, &c, 

 the other day I came across a scrap containing some information about C. 

 brumata, which, although I remember making the note at the time, had al- 

 together slipped my memory. I find that Mr. H. Andrews, of this town, had 

 taken the species on the 1st March about ten years ago, and other friends tell 

 me they have several times seen it near the end of February ; yet these are 

 certainly exceptional dates, it has, however, often been seen about the middle 

 of February. — J. W. Carter, Bradford. 



Notes at Sherburn, Dorset. — I have not seen one account of the 

 abundance of A, selene and L. agestis last season. They were both of them 

 unusually common in this neighbourhood. Previous to last summer they 

 had been scarce for the last five years. Except the first fortnight of the 

 new year, when Brumata and Bupicapraria were swarming at night, I have 

 hardly seen a moth as yet, and only Rhamni and Urtica amongst the butter- 

 flies. The pretty bees Andrena fulva and Clarhella are out and the common 

 Bombi. — C. W. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton. 



Preserving the Colour op Dragon Flies. — To keep the colour of 

 Dragon Flies stuff the larger ones after taking out the insides, and insert a 

 hog's bristle through the abdomen of the smaller species, — -C. W. Dale, 

 Glanvilles Wootton, Dorset, 



