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are issued on the Continent. It appears 

 to lis that it would not be difficult to 

 arrange a Club in such a way that its 

 members might have the perusal of all 

 periodicals they cared to see, at a cost ! 

 scarcely exceeding the subscription for 

 one of them. The average cost of these 

 Magazines is five to six shillings a-year. 

 Ten of them would cost about fifty 

 shillings. Twenty members at a sub- 

 scription of half-a-crown would raise the 

 amount. In addition to this, there j 

 would be the postage from one member 

 to another, say fivepence monthly. This : 

 would be the entire cost. At the end 

 of the year, the stock could be sold for 

 what it would bring, and the amount 

 raised, distributed, or carried to next | 

 year's account, to reduce the subscrip- j 

 tion, or increase the number of papers 

 or magazines at the end of the year. If 

 in good enough condition they might be 

 bound up to form the nucleus of a refer- j 

 ence library for the use of the members, j 

 If there were fewer subscribers, the 

 number of periodicals could be decreased, 

 or the subscriptions raised in amount. 

 We think however that half-a-crown 1 

 should be enough. Will such of our 

 readers as are disposed to join such a 

 club please to communicate with us, i 

 stating their ideas about it. They will 

 please not make any remittance at 

 present until we see whether enough 

 are inclined to join, to make it worth 

 while, that we should undertake the 

 labor the plan will entail. 



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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



E. E. G., Sittingbourne. — Thanks for pupa of 

 parasites from N. Ziczac; but we do not 

 think them Dipterous. We are not aware 

 that the larvae of this order ever spin 

 cocoons. Yours are evidently a small Hy- 

 menoptera, probably a Micvugaster. The 

 answer to your question is just what we 

 are trying to find out. No doubt some 

 parasites confine their attacks to one 

 particular species of larva, but others 

 attack more than one. In the course of 

 time we hope to learn the species that are 

 attacked by each different parasite, both 

 Dipterous and Hymenopterous. Our read- 

 ers are helping us greatly in the quest, 

 which no single Entomologist could accom- 

 plish. We have not noticed the red 

 parasite you speak of attached to the 

 imago. Is it not an Acarus ? 



Several subscribers for the New Volume, who 

 have not had them before, are ordering 

 colored plates. We would advise that, 

 except the Weekly Edition be preferred, 

 those who take colored plates should have 

 the Monthly Parts, as the plates travel 

 safer in them than in a thin Weekly Num- 

 ber. 



We have still a large quantity of odd back 

 numbers, and parties who have favoured us 

 with papers during the past year can, in 

 most cases, have copies for distribution 

 among their friends by paying postage (id. 

 per dozen). 



Subscriptions for Vol. 2 now due. With 

 12 plain plates, 6/-, or with the same 

 colored by hand, 8/-. Monthly Parts in 

 colored wrapper, on same terms. • 



The usual monthly plate due with this 

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