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TEE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
cording to Entomological etiquette, I 
took the usual liberties -with people’s 
hedges and fences, and got away com- 
fortably, unabused amd unrewarded 
for all my pains and anxious exertions. 
I was now in the road again, hum- 
bled in the dust, for there was plenty 
of it, and a copious draught of water 
appeared to me to be a most desirable 
thing, and when no ale etc. is come- 
at-able, it is indeed a most capital ar- 
ticle. Having reached the precints of 
a cottage, a most woeful countenance 
presented itself, as I begged the favour 
of a jug of water, which was instantly 
handed to me. The poor woman 
seemed to be in trouble, and upon my 
asking her if there was anything the 
matter, she replied, “ why, Sir, I’ll 
tell you. My daughter Kitty that 
lives just over yonder has just dropped 
into an accident, and I expects the 
poor girl will be put to bed every 
day.* Howsomever, I just heard the 
mop a quabbling in the bucket, and 
that’s a sure sign something bad’ll 
happen.” “ Well,” said I “ that is 
a grievous thing, but don’t frighten 
yourself to death, and let me tell you 
this, for a certainty, — if something 
or other should not happen, you may 
rely upon it nothing else will.” Lor, 
Sir, I return you many thanks you 
have raly done me good; and plaisc 
Sir, to call in again when you comes 
this way, for I am so glad of a bit of 
comfort.” 
Having had lots of fluid and fun, I 
marched off in “good order.” The 
shadows of evening and disappoint- 
ment gathered around me, as I pro- 
ceeded homeward, and I thought I 
needed something of the comforting 
kind myself, after toiling from ten 
o’clock in the morning until ten o’clock 
at night, without sitting down even 
a single moment throughout the whole 
journey. A. Edutjxds, The Ty thing. 
Worcester. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
NeUROFTERA. 
Females of the geuus Agrion. I 
have remarked in a previous commu- 
nication that in the genus Agrion I 
have found that there are sometimes 
two sorts of females. I will now 
mention in what respects they seem to 
differ from each other. I have fem- 
ales of A. tenellum which have green- 
ish abdomens with the two or three 
first joints reddish, but I have taken 
two or three with all the joints of the 
6ame color. In elcgans and pumilio 
also, the females are different some- 
times in color, from the ordinary type. 
J. C. Dale, Gian. Wootton, Sherborne 
Dorset. 
Lihellula Sparshalli. I have a 
specimen of a Lihellula which I cal- 
led Sparshalli. Mr. Sparshall said 
he took it at Horning Fen, Norfolk, 
and the Baron-de-Selys tells me it is 
L. viridula (not even European.) 
Sparshall said he was sure that he 
took it at Horning, and that as Mac- 
haon is found in India, why should 
we doubt L. Sparshalli ? Id. 
Lkpidodtera. 
tl 
//. Defoliaria. In confirmation of 
the statement of Mr. Mawson, as re- 
