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fully determined never to depart, your 
petitioner humbly craveth to be natu- 
ralized. Nor should it be objected that 
your petitioner liveth in-doors, for so also 
doth V-flava ; nor that he hath travelled 
hither within the memory of man, for so 
also have Pseudospretella and Cerealella ; 
nor that he is a great nuisance, for so are 
many of his friends and relations. 
Your petitioner therefore humbly cra- 
veth to have his name added to the British 
list. 
And your petitioner will ever prey — 
upon figs. 
(Signed) Ephestia Eicella. 
Does the Spider eat its own 
Web? — Rennie, in his ‘ Insect Architec- 
ture,’ asserts that the common garden 
spider does not eat its own web. A close 
observation has convinced me that it does. 
After cutting a web, so that it hung only 
by a thread, the spider came out, gathered 
the whole up, soaked it with the glutinous 
liquid from its mouth, carried it to its den 
corner, and then, opening its jaws, took 
the entire ball in. The thought, however, 
struck me, was the mass conveyed into 
the proper stomach of the insect, or into 
some cavity whence it might be repro- 
duced through the spinnerets ? I should 
feel much obliged if you could answer 
this question, for I can assert that the 
web wan swallowed. — Notes and Queries. 
Postal Guide. — In the ‘Entomolo- 
gist’s Annual for 1856,’ we called attention 
to the extreme desirability of a Post-Office 
Bradshaw : this is now announced “ as in 
a forward state, and will speedily be pub- 
lished.’’ To those of our readers who 
have much correspondence with foreign 
entomologists we have no doubt this in- 
formation will be highly acceptable. 
Caution to Hasty Writehs. — Be- 
tween seven and eight thousand letters 
were posted last year without any ad- 
dress. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
The Zoologist for May. (A Popular 
Monthly Magazine of Natural His- 
tory). Price Is. John Van Voorst, 
Paternoster Row. 
“ Protection was the baue of agricul- 
ture and, believing this, we joined the 
Anti-Corn-Law League in 1843, and had 
the pleasure of assisting in removing the 
“bane.” Since then we have always 
held that competition was a good thing, 
— good for all parties, good for the pub- 
lic, good for those competing. 
When we first announced the ‘ Intel- 
ligencer’ there were timid croakers who 
said, What will the ‘ Zoologist ’ do ? — 
surely it will “ go squash.” We enter- 
tertained no such fears : we were satis- 
fied that if there were an increase in the 
number of entomologists, and of energy 
in the existing entomologists, the ‘Zoo- 
logist’ would have an increased number 
of readers, and would receive an addi- 
tional number of well-written articles. 
The present number fully justifies our 
expectations : it is capital. The forty 
pages of matter are still kept up. We 
have an unusual amount of entomologi- 
cal information, as the following brief 
analysis will show: — The Rev. Joseph 
Greene notices the adaptation of the 
colour of the moths which appear in 
autumn to the golden and rich brown 
tints of the woods at that period. Mr. 
Wailes notices, among other things, the 
large flat blotch-maker of the bramble- 
leaves, which is Hymenopterous, and has 
produced him Fennsa pumila. Mr. Par- 
fitt has a very able communication on 
the subject of the hard oak-gall from 
Devonshire. Mr. Scott calls attention 
to the difficulty of knowing whose ar- 
rangement of Lepidoptera to follow, 
