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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, Kegent's Park, October I2th, 1868. 
Hadena peregrina at Lewes. — A Noctua, which proves to be H. peregrina, waa 
taken on the downs at the back of my house, by one of my school children. — 
Martha Meek, Lowes, Septeml&i; 1868. j 
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., Octoler, 1868. 
Ortliosia suspecta at West Wichha/m, — On July 15th 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 Huddersfield. — I beg to inform you that a specimen of 
Chcerocampa 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, Idth October, 1868. 
Obittiary notice of Br. Ludwig Inihoff. — On Sunday, the 13th September, 1868, 
at about three o'clock in the afternoon, there died at Basle, Ludwig Imlioff, Dr. 
Med. et Phil., after a few weeks' illness, aged 67. 
A contemporary of the gifted J. J. Hagenbach, the continuance of whose 
" Symbola faunae Insectorum Helvetiae " he undertook ; a fellow-student and sub- 
sequent collaborator with Prof. L. Agassiz (Nomenclator Zoologicus, Hymenopterci), 
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 bat 
energetic band of naturalists who, between 1830-40, undertook to work out the 
different branches of the Swiss fauna, the Orfhoptera and Hymenoptera being hifl 
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 Insecten der Schweiz," " Gattungen der Rxisselkafer," and 
" Schweizerische Kiifergattungcn," all fully illustrated by Labram. 
