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sisted of a dried pupa, which, in the 
form of the legs and of the long an- 
tennae, the four hairy rudiments of wings 
and the two biting jaws, exactly resem- 
bled a Phryganidan.” 
Do such things occur in our fresh- 
water lakes ? We recommend Mr. 
Kingsley to bear this question in mind, 
when next he visits Snowdonia; per- 
chance he may stumble on a new “ won- 
der of the shore.’’ 
The following suggestion thrown out 
at pp. 106, 107, is worthy of attentive 
consideration. 
“ In Psyche Helix , Solenobia clathrella 
and Lichenella, in opposition to the Bees, 
the females after copulation will proba- 
bly deposit those fertilized eggs from 
which only males are developed. 
“ Hence it may happen that here and 
there, in the open air, we find the male 
and female individuals living together 
by themselves, and separate from each 
other. With this the observation of 
Zincken stands in perfect accordance 
that many case-bearers only occur in 
separate sexes during the larva and pupa 
state, and that where one sex is met 
with the other may be sought for in 
vain The male individuals in 
the larva state probably lead quite a dif- 
ferent mode of life in Psyche Helix , and 
might in consequence have hitherto 
escaped the observation of those ento- 
mologists who hoped to find the cater- 
pillars of the males of Psyche Helix as 
case-bearers with a convoluted dwelling. 
“ For these assertions of mine, which 
are only expressed as suppositions, a sup- 
port may be found in an observation 
made by Leon Dufour. From a parti- 
cular gall he always reared nothing but 
female individuals of the Hymenopterous 
insect Stomoclca, but was much asto- 
nished when he obtained nothing but 
males of this insect from the pupa of 
a Tenlhredo !’’ 
In the Introduction, p. 6, will be 
found the following hard hit at the ento- 
mologists of the present day. 
“ By the entomologists the physiology 
of reproduction has been very scantily 
enriched of late, as most of them found 
their task only in rectifying the species of 
insects; many of them endeavoured, at 
the expense of much time and trouble, to 
determine those species which have been 
furnished with names by Linnaeus and 
Fabrieius, whilst the majority found a 
still greater pleasure in enriching the 
systematic Catalogues of Insects with a 
few perfectly new, although extremely 
insignificant, species.” 
Here we conclude our notice of this 
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