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evidently (at least ou the banks of the 
Taw) a different habit, and much of their 
jaw- work on the leaves is performed from 
the outside. After we had been at work 
very nearly half an hour a cocoon was 
found, not ou the Aster, but on a piece 
of grass. Then Mr. Crotch started a 
small Coleophora, which he wished to 
box ; the Coleophora hopped about and 
crawled about, as those insects will, we 
of course intently watching its move- 
ments; it alighted on a rush stem, and 
crawled upwards, thereby attracting our 
attention to the point of the rush where 
there was a Bucculatrix cocoon. Indeed, 
we now found that the cocoons were on 
grass, or on rushes, but always near the 
tip ; hence at least six inches higher up 
than were we had been looking for them, 
amongst the lower leaves of the Aster. 
We turned our attention to this phase of 
the subject, and had soon collected a 
hundred or so, and of course, had we 
wished, we could have got a thousand. 
The only other insects we noticed were 
Gelechia instabilella, Crambus selasellus, 
and a Eupcecilia, which was in excessive 
abundance, and which I presume must 
be either AJftnitana or Vectisana. — H.T. 
Stainton, Glen Tor, Bideford ; July 26. 
Wasps' Nests. — I have just read the 
concluding portion of Mr. Stone’s paper 
on wasps’ nests, and have derived much 
pleasure in so doing: it is full of minute 
and valuable information. I only demur 
to one assertion ; I do so because it does 
not accord with my own observation of 
wasps, if I rightly understand the para- 
graph. At p. 85, Mr. Stone says, “ The 
basis of the material employed is wood, 
one species using sound wood, another 
that which has become decayed.” I should 
be obliged if Mr. Stone would name the 
species which uses sound wood and also 
that which uses decayed ivood. I have 
noticed that Vespa vulgaris uses a different 
material, or I should rather say kind of 
material, in constructing the outer en- 
velope of her nest, when the nest is an 
under-ground one, to that which it uses 
when constructing it in an outhouse or 
other sheltered situation ; but Mr. Stone’s 
observation is new to me, if I am to 
understand him literally, as speaking of 
distinct species, not of different indi- 
viduals. — Frederick Smith, 27, Rich- 
mond Crescent, Islington, N. 
EXCHANGE. 
Bucculatrix maritima. — This insect is 
plentiful on some salt marshes near here, 
and is now in the pupa state. I shall be 
happy to forward cocoons to any gentle- 
man who is desirous of breeding this 
interesting insect. Almost every leaf of 
the Aster tripolium here has been mined 
by several larvae of this species, and 
there must be literally thousands of it on 
the marshes here. — G. R. C rotch (at pre- 
sent stopping at) Raleigh House, Pilton, 
near Barnstaple ; July 25. 
N. Senex and II. Uncana. — My stock 
is exhausted. I have still left a few 
L. pudorina (good, but unset) and fine 
E. Vesperlaria, also two or three females 
and ova of the latter. I have duplicates, 
varying in number, of the following 
(numbered as in the ‘ Manual ’) : — 36, 
37,40,60,61,64,71,89, 137, 141 (pupae), 
146 (ovae), 159 (and ovse), 180 (pupae), 
224, 233, 237, 258, 259, 273 (and ovae), 
295, 307, 310, 322, 329, 330, 336, 340, 
352, 354, 356, 357, 360, 361,364, 367, 
368— 370, 373, 376, 384, 410, 412, 413, 
420, 426, 430, 43 1 ,440, 46 1 , 488, 495, 497, 
608, 6 1 3, 628 ( $ & ? ), 634 ( $ ), 721 , 761 , 
767, 791, 934. I should be glad, were it 
possible, to effect the transmutation of 
the foregoing, or some of them, into 
some of the following: — 4, 20, 24, 42, 
43, 51, 52, 54, 55, 58, 59, 62, 63, 69, 70, 
86, 88, 90 to 102, 108—110,113, 11 fi- 
ll 7, 119, 121 — 123, 125, 131—134, 136, 
140—143, 151, 155, 157, 174, 175, 183, 
