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notice, we ought to hail the pio- 
neer with that tribute of praise 
that shall be a stimulus to excite 
proper emulation and urge them 
on, showing that an observant so- 
ciety is ever ready to acknowledge 
true merit and permanent pro- 
gress. With regard to the labours 
of the Kev. J. Greene, although 
he has before given us his modus 
opercmdi, still his remarks in the 
last number of the ‘ Zoologist’ are 
so much more in detail than his 
previous communication to the 
Entomological Society as to give 
a new impetus to his excellent 
plan of obtaining pupa?, and 
almost to clothe it in a fresh garb. 
For this his merit stands conspi- 
cuous, and as all entomologists 
are fellow-labourers in the great 
field of insect life, although not 
all Coleopterists, Neuropterists or 
Lepidopterists, still we mutually 
assist one another, and any new 
method of capture that secures 
success to one is sure to reflect a 
light upon the others: thus many 
insects, not of the order of Lepi- 
doptera alone, are attracted by 
sugar; many strange and fanciful 
forms are daily exhumed by the 
pupa-hunter whilst pursuing his 
laborious avocation, besides num- 
berless cases of the Ichneumonidae ; 
and the lamp, so attractive to the 
moth, likewise allures to its ho- 
mage a variety of other insects. 
As the love of investigating the 
exquisite attributes of Nature 
leads us to higher and nobler 
thoughts, so each benefactor, from 
whose light we catch a ray, ought 
not to be overlooked in the ardour 
of our pursuit and the eagerness of 
our chase, lest the coldness of neg- 
lect leave the lamp untrimmed and 
the light to be extinguished,— 
C.J. Cox, Fordioich House, Ford- 
wich ; January 17, 1857. 
Phlogophora meticulosa. — One 
day last autumn I captured a few 
of the polyphagous larvae of P/tlo- 
gophora meticulosa ; some of them 
were feeding in the tubes of some 
onions, others were greedily de- 
vouring the flowers of some pinks, 
others were busy among the ten- 
der leaves of some scarlet gera- 
niums. I put a few of them into 
one of my boxes for larvae, and 
assidiously attended to their 
wants until they were full fed ; 
they but ill-requited my at- 
tentions I am sorry to say, for as 
soon as ever they had reached a 
condition when as I thought they 
ought to have neatly constructed 
their puparia in the corners of my 
box, each morning when I ex- 
amined it I found to my surprise 
that one or two of them had con- 
trived their escape. This went on 
until every one of them had gone. 
I searched my room for them in- 
effectually, and at last gave the 
matter up as hopeless. The other 
day I had occasion to move some 
bird’s eggs which had long been 
neatly packed away amid cotton 
wool in a cupboard in one corner 
of my room. While unfolding the 
wool which protected three or four 
of my eggs I found to my surprise 
a cocoon neatly constructed of the 
wool and ingeniously attached to 
a couple of the eggs, in which 
cocoon I beheld the pupa of my 
friend Phlogophora meticulosa. 
On unpacking more eggs I came 
across several other pupte, all, 
more or less, attached to various 
eggs, and all enveloped in cocoons 
of wool. — Murkav a. M atthews, 
Raleigh, near Barnslaple ; Janu- 
ary 19, 1857. 
