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Xanlhoselia Hainana, July 19 
Cranibus Pinetellus, July 5 
„ Cerusellus 
„ Culinellus 
„ Pysmaeus 
Phibalocera Quercana, July 
Ilytbia Sociella 
Pliycita Ornatella 
„ Nebulella 
„ BiuEEvella 
„ Consociella 
„ Bistriga 
Plutella Nemorella 
„ Deiitella 
Cerosloma Costella 
„ Racliatella 
Elachista Cygnipennella 
Chryso^orys Festaliella 
Butalis Grandipennis 
Gelechia Terrella 
CEcopbora Flavifrontella 
Chrysoclista Flavicaput 
Gelechia Cinerella 
Gracilaria Sweclerella. 
— E. Hobton, Wick, Worcester ; 
November 12, 1856. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
A New Clap-Net— Ravins met 
■ with a friend, a manufacturer of 
I telescopic tubes, &c., I have in- 
duced him to make for me some 
1 handles for a Clap-Net, thinking 
;to obtain one more convenient 
; than the one I have hitherto used. 
■Now it is finished I find it so 
■superior to what I had at first au- 
Iticipated that it has induced me 
Ito lay a description of it belore 
'your readers, thinking, perhaps, 
tthatsome of them would like to 
lhave the same convenience (at so 
I little cost) fo,r themselves. The 
1 whole length, when closed, is 24 
i inches, the diameter of each han- 
dle being ^-incb, and when 
drawn out it reaches 4 feet 10 
inches. It is made in three 
joints; the second and third sliding 
into the first. The third joints, 
which of course are smaller than 
the others, are made of flexible 
canes, and joined at the point by 
vulcanised India-rubber. When 
closed it is very portable, and 
when opened it is both firm and 
strong, forming the most compact 
thing of the kind I have ever yet 
seen ; the whole cost being 4s. 6d. 
If any of your readers should like 
any more information respecting 
it, I shall feel a pleasure in send- 
ing them more minute particulars, 
or obtaining for them the article 
itself. — J. B. Stone, Lupin 
Street, Birmingham. 
Forcing Lepidoptera. — I wish 
to know if any of your readers 
have noticed a similar case to the 
following; — On the 17th of Sep- 
tember I had some larvre of Va- 
nessa Atalanta that became pupre, 
and which I suspected would so 
remain until the following spring, 
but on placing them in a warm 
room, they emerged on the 5th of 
November. — Thomas Clarke, 
Bedern Bank, Ripon ; November 
13, 1856. 
Hoiv to Catch a Falling Larva. 
— I have heard a great many en- 
tomologists complain that when 
they try to take a larva from a 
plant it very often falls to the 
ground and cannot be found ; now 
when it drops, it generally fastens 
a fine thread or silk to the bough 
or leaf it falls from and slides 
down it to the ground, but if the 
person passes his hand under the 
j)lace the larva was in, when first 
seen, it will come in contact with 
' the thread, and having found the 
