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Row, as well as of the Publisher. 
Several communications only 
wait for room. 
J. Woods. — Declined with 
thanks. 
H. H. Merki.man. — The in- 
sects are too common to deserve 
particular notice. 
H. Dokville. — Letter received 
and forwarded to the party men- 
tioned. 
DUPLICATES AND DESIDERATA. 
Pionea Slramentalis . — I have a 
considerable number of Pionea 
Stramentalis in duplicate to ex- 
change for any species not indi- 
I genous to this county. — E dward 
I Smith, Turkey Street, Worcester. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
Fungus on Pupae . — Will any of 
; your correspondents oblige me by 
i in forming me of some method of 
] preventing pupte from being at- 
t tacked by a kind of Fungus which 
destroys them — F. B. W. White, 
,2, Athole Place, Perth; December 
19, 1856. 
The Sugar Bait . — I hope you 
will pardon my troubling you, but 
as I am a very old entomologist, 
born before sugaring was known, 
and as I am again taking up my 
favourite amusement, I shall feel 
obliged by your giving me the 
plain and simple way of making 
this very enticing syrup. I find 
in Mr. Shield’s work on ‘ Moths 
and Butterflies’ a recipe for it, 
but I do not understand what 
some of the ingredients are in- 
tended for. He begins by recom- 
mending the following “ Sugar.” 
Now I can find no sugar men- 
tioned in the body of his recipe, 
and I find a something called 
“Foots.” May I request the fa- 
vour of your telling me what it is, 
and where to be obtained? — ^T. 
W. Edwahds, Bilsington, Ash- 
ford, Kent ; December 22, 1856. 
[“Foots” is the name for the 
sugar that is saturated with mo- 
lasses which drains downwards in 
the casks in which sugar is im- 
ported from the W est Indies. 
The recipe of Mr. Shield is good, 
but we have found the mixture 
efficacious without the .honey and 
essential oil of almonds.] 
A Revival . — As I have not ap- 
peared for many years among my 
brother entomologists I have no 
doubt many think I am dead, and 
I am afraid many of them are 
gone before me, but I can assure 
you that there is not one of your 
friends more devoted to the 
Science than I am, and very few 
have spent so much money in fol- 
lowing it. I am an old friend of 
the late Mr. Haworth; and Mr. 
George Waterhouse, although 
much my junior, was the first that 
called my attention to the British 
insects: he was with me when I 
discovered the genus Phldeobius 
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