THE BANKSIAX BOTANIST-LIBRARIAXS. 
75 
in autumn, fly very high, quite out of sight, and then come dowm again, sit a while 
upon reeds or willows, and then plunge into the water. It was into one of his 
own ponds ; but he forgot to search for them in the water afterwards ; and this 
autumn they came not to that place. In the second letter he says it is the Forficula 
auricularia of Linnieus (Earwig), which makes the labyrinth-like furrows under 
the bark, upon old trees, because he has found several of these insects in such 
holes. He likewise mentions having found there a kind of white maggots, which 
he took for larvie of these Forficulm. But that he is mistaken in these observations 
is very certain. The white maggots are the artificers of these labvTinths, and are 
Xo. 31. — C.4RL SoLAXDER (1733-178-2). 
the caterpillars cither of DcrmeMes typographm or 1). tnicroyraphus of Linnaeus. 
The Forficulae have only gone into such holes for shelter, as they do into all the 
cavities they meet with. In the first letter likewise mention is made of frogs 
in winter, during a hard frost, being found frozen, apparently dead, being hard 
and brittle like flint (glass?), so that they break with a blow. But if taken into 
a warm room, they come to life again. I never heard this observation before, 
and wonder from whence he has taken it. I have tlesired Jlr. Collinson to wTite 
to him, and enquire. 
