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When this is broken off the pupa, if there be one, will be risible, as i* hardly forms 
my web, and fills the space in the shoot ; but if, as is more often the case, the 
arva has been destroyed by an ichneumon, a flat, pellucid membrane will be visible 
uside the shoot, and within this the ichneumon pupa lies. After working where- 
>ver I could find young firs for three weeks, with various success, finding few pupee 
md many ichneumons, with occasionally a larva different from the ordinary ones, 
chanced, on May 1st, to find a pupa in a side shoot (one of the circle), and by 
lose searching procured one or two more. These were light brown pup;© (those 
fitmonaua being dark brown), and instead of lying in the shoot with the head 
ownwards, were in the reverse position, the head being towards the tip of the 
hoot, the hard inside of which had been carefully gnawed away, leaving a passage 
f escape for the moth, but safely closed from any intruder by the natural bracts. 
Vom these, in the middle of May, I bred Retinia pinivorana ; turionana having 
ommenced to emerge a fortnight earlier. 
In the meantime the larvae collected first had been feeding voraciously, re- 
oiring plenty of fresh food, but at the same time being very restless, and had 
ow most of them spun up ; and, to my great surprise, I bred from them nearly 
venty pinivomna. Thus I had accidentally hit upon both the larva and the habits 
r the pupa of this species. Supposing the larva to be Buoliana, I did not take any 
ascription, but they were dark red or liver coloured, and, if I recollect right, 
ithout markings, but with the ordinary brown head and plate. 
My good fortune did not end here, for on June 26th a pinicolana emerged, and 
: July two of Phycis abietella. This last must, I think, have been produced from 
pale grey larva with darker longitudinal stripes, and I think a few short scattered 
lirs, which had rather a different form to the other larvee ; but as it fed in the 
loots in the same way, I had concluded it to belong to an allied species. 
The only other insect that I bred from this lot of fir-shoots was Sericoris 
iicana ! ! Polyphagous as the larva is, I did not expect it from such a pabulum 
this.— Chas. G. Baurett, Haslemere, 16th September, 1868. 
[E Record of Zoological Liteeature, vol. iv. ; part 2, Arachnida, Myriapoda, 
secta; by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S. London: John Van Voorst, 1868. 
The hopes we previously expressed that this elaborate Record would be divided 
;o sections, so as to enable students of one branch of Natural History to know 
lat their fellow-workers were doing without having to pay for a bulky volume, 
ionsiderable portion of which would be useless to them, have been realized, and 
} portion recording the work done in the above-mentioned classes during 18G7 
1 now be had separately, as can the two others concerning the Vcrtebrata, 
iistacea, and lower animals respectively. As it is, the present part extends to 
) pages, almost totally occupied by the Insecta. We feel sure that entomologists 
1 duly appreciate the boon accorded to them. It may be worthy of consideration 
ether the size and price might not yet be much reduced with advantage, 
omitting the brief abstract of the characters of the new genera. It suf- 
!s that a worker at any order or family should know what has been done, and 
ere to find the special paper he may require : moreover, aa it is impossible 'that 
; man can duly appreciate the relative value of characters in all orders of insects 
