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llie species numbered in the Appendix to 
the ‘ Manual,’ 5, 11, 21, 25, 38, 40, 41, 
66, or 178. — F. H. Fawkes, Eton College , 
Windsor; Sept. 26. 
Lilhosia Muscerda. — I have duplicates 
of this insect and also of the species 
numbered in the Appendix to the ‘ Ma- 
nual,’ 85, 161, 170,231, 232, 237, 238, 
241, 244, 248, 251, 252, 296, 399, 478, 
and I have also a few Pionea stramen- 
talis. I am in want of the species num- 
bered in the Appendix to the ‘ Manual,’ 
34, 42, 43, 44, 45, 59, 62, 66, 67, 70, 71, 
75, 76, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 94, 100, 101, 
102, 108, 112, 113, &C.-W. Winter, 
Panworth, Blojield, Norfolk ; Sept. 25. 
Lilhosia Complana. — You may add 
Dover to the few localities for this 
species: I took the larva there last 
spring, and the perfect insect duly made 
its appearance. — W. C. Turner, 33, 
Bermondsey Square, Southwark. 
Bow to rear the Death’s Head. — I 
have been very successful in breeding 
Acherontia Atropos ; the method I have 
adopted is this : I feed the larvae in large 
flower-pots half-filled with light mould 
for them to effect their transformations 
in ; after they have been under ground 
ten days, I take them out, and put them 
in pots partly filled with mould and sand, 
and well drained. I keep them in a 
warm room, and well saturate them with 
water once a week ; to keep up the mois- 
ture I put damp moss over them every 
third day. In this way I have bred four- 
teen as fine specimens as ever were seen, 
some of them 5^ inches across the wing. 
One of them was only three weeks from 
the larva going under ground to the ap- 
pearance of the perfect insect, but I find 
a month about the average time. It is 
time that entomologists should be on the 
look out for A. saucia and A. australis; 
I took a few specimens of both a fort- 
night ago. — H. Rogers, Freshwater, Isle 
of Wight; Sept. 30. 
Vanessa Antiopa. — A specimen was 
caught in the garden of Little Oakley 
Rectory, Harwich, Essex, on the 18th of 
August last, and is now in the collection 
of a young Etonian. — H. T. Stainton ; 
October 3. 
Sphinx Ligustri. — Having a few dozen 
pup® of this insect, I shall be glad to ex- 
change them for specimens or larvae of 
Lasiocampa Rubi, E. Planlaginis, P. Fu- 
liginosa, T.Balis, or pupae of C.Elpenor 
and Eriogaster Lanestris. — T. Cooper, 
Stone Bridge, Tottenham ; October 2. 
Failure of Sugar. — A correspondent 
in the last number of the ‘ Intelligencer’ 
complains of the sugar not bringing him 
sport since last July. I have found the 
same to be my case, at least I may say 
that I have considered three or four 
moths a very good night’s work. I should 
attribute the failure of the sugar bait to 
the luxuriance of wild flowers, which have 
this year been so very plentiful. Of late 
I have taken a very great number on the 
blossoms of the ivy, which is now with us, 
as a correspondent says it is at Faver- 
sham, “ in its fullest luxuriance of 
bloom.” — W. Langley, Ganarew, Mon- 
mouth. 
Hymenoptera. 
Sirex Juvencus. — A few evenings since 
I took a fine female of this species at 
sugar, placed on the trees for moths. It 
seemed to enjoy the repast. — Robert 
Cook, 79, Long Weslgate, Scarborough ; 
September 22. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Nebria complanata. — Coleopterists who 
have not got N. complanata can be sup- 
plied (as far as eighty specimens go), if 
they will send their boxes to me, ad- 
dressed to the College, Cheltenham. 
The specimens are in fine condition, 
taken last Saturday, at their head- 
quarters, Crwmllyn Burrows, Swansea.— 
Rev. T. A. Marshall. 
