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prongs ; accordingly I have secured four- 
teen or fifteen healthy pupse, placing 
them in garden-pots filled with mould in 
a cool cellar, and, watching them daily, 
have succeeded in procuring many beau- 
tiful and healthy insects. The land in 
which the potatoes were grown is a sharp, 
deep sand, always warm in the summer. 
— Thomas Fordham, Snelsmore Hill 
East , near Newbury , Berks ; Oct. 1 . 
Larva of Eupithecia ass imilala feeding 
on Wild Hops. — Last night, when out 
shooting with one of my brothers, we 
found some remarkably fine wild hops, 
and each gathered a large bunch. I 
noticed that the leaves and flowers were 
very much eaten, and remarked to my 
brother, “ I should not wonder if some 
sort of Pug feeds on hops ; let us beat 
them and see.” We at once began 
thrashing them, and out tumbled about 
a dozen larvse of E. assimilata. I have 
been beating away again this morning, 
and have taken altogether about a hun- 
dred larvae.- — Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, 
BreadsalL Rectory, near Derby; Oct. 6. 
AtUhocelis rujina . — An example of this 
autumnal insect has been recently taken 
at York by Mr. Birks, with singular ab- 
dominal appendages, resembling in cha- 
racter those of the Fan foots ( Herminidce ). 
From the under side of the abdomen, not 
far from its conjunction with the thorax, 
spring a pair of pedicels, supporting a 
radiating tuft of seta;, that to the naked 
eye presents the appearance of the pap- 
pus of a composite plant. These sets, 
on being subjected to high microscopic 
power, have a scaly aspect, and bespeak 
an animal growth ; thus putting aside all 
idea of a fungoid development. More- 
over, on examining them with seta; taken 
from the tarsal tufts of one of the Fan- 
foots, precisely the same characters are 
visible in each. The question that arises 
is whether this appendage is the result 
of accidental formation, or whether it is 
peculiar to the males of A. rujina , and 
so ephemeral in its nature as to be shed, 
in ordinary cases, before the capture, of 
the insect. The former explanation I 
take to be the true one; still I mention 
the latter to call attention to the circum- 
stance on the part of those who may 
have an opportunity of breeding the in- 
sect from the larva. — An Observer, 
York ; October 1 . 
Mites . — I see, in the ‘ Intelligencer ’ 
(No. 157, p. 6), that a correspondent has 
the m sfortune to have his boxes afflicted 
with that terrible enemy to the entom- 
ologist — or rather to his insects — the 
mite. I have, however, found an in- 
valuable cure in Buffon and Willson’s 
(391, Strand) “ Moth Exterminator,” 
which is sold at one shilling a bottle. It 
has been of infinite use to me in exter- 
minating the mite, which had taken up 
its quarters in some of my boxes. The 
mode of application is “ put a drop of 
this liquid on a piece of cotton-wool, and 
place it in the place infested,” and all 
signs of animal life will quickly dis- 
appear. The smell, it is true, is not the 
most agreeable in the world, but it is 
compensated for by the utility of the 
liquid.— W. H. C. 
EXCHANGE. 
Desiderata. — I shall be obliged for 
imagos, and especially fertile eggs or 
pupae, of any of the following: — 
Colias Edusa 
... Hyale 
Hipparchia Semele 
Argynnis Lathonia 
Vanessa Atalanta 
Cynthia Cardui 
Chrysophanus Phlaeas 
Thecla Quercus 
Acherontia Atropos 
Sphinx Convolvuli 
... Ligustri 
... Pinastri 
Deilephila Livornica 
Macroglossa Stellatarum 
