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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
in a wasp’s nest there would frequently 
he as many as six females, perfectly de- 
veloped in other respects, hut wingless. 
Rare Coleoptera. — Mr. Water- 
house exhibited five specimens of J lyr- 
midonea, viz., cognata (which had been 
previously found by Mr. Janson), hinne- 
ralis, funesta, lugens , and laticollis, all 
from nests of black ants ; also specimens 
of Oxgpoda vittata. 
A paper by Mr. Newman “ On Killing 
Insects by Laurel” was then read, and 
several members gave instances of the 
difficulty with which some species were 
acted upon by poisons that proved 
speedily fatal to others ; Mr. Douglas 
mentioning that among a lot of beetles 
he had placed in laurel, a Necrobia rufi- 
collis continued to walk about friskily 
among its asphyxiated companions for 
hours, apparently quite unaffected. 
P.S. — The Rev. Joseph Greene had 
sent for exhibition a curious variety of 
Abraxas Grossulariata, and one of Cleora 
lichenaria , the wings of the latter being 
unusually tinted with orange, which Mr. 
Greene surmised might have been caused 
by the larva having fed on orange- 
coloured lichens. These specimens were 
not exhibited, because Mr. Stainton 
found them on his mantel-piece when he 
reached home at 1 1 p. m. ; by no means 
a solitary instance of correspondents 
sending things for exhibition a day after 
the fair. 
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