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afterwards by the gardener, while hover- 
ing over some stocks, and were in very 
fair condition.” — G eorge Gascoyne, 
Newark ; Nov. 7. 
Duplicate Pupa. — I have the pupae of 
Lasiocampa Quercus and Saturnia Car- 
pini, which I will give in exchange for 
Trifolii or for any of the following in- 
sects : — 
Thecla Betulae, 
„ Pruni, 
Polyommatus Acis, 
„ iEgon, 
„ Arion, 
Argynnis Selene, 
Melitaea Athalia, 
Erebia Cassiopt, 
Pamphila Comma, 
„ Actaeon. 
Should any persons wish to exchange I 
will pay the postage one way. — J. Varley, 
Almondbury Bank , near Huddersfield ; 
Dec. 7. 
Captures at Light. — My brother and I 
have, since the 17th, obtained the fol- 
lowing insects from the lamplighter: — 
P. Cassinea (4), 
P. Populi (1), 
N. C-nigrum (1), 
A. Pistacina (3), 
H. Pennaria (5), 
C. Bruinaria (swarms), 
D. Templi (1), 
1 have a number of T. Tapes, which I 
shall be glad to exchange for the insects 
numbered in the ‘ Manual,’ 67, 68, 69, 
73, 74, 85, 86, 114, any of the Proini- 
nents, any Lilhosia, 169, 171, 180, 185, 
189 2, 217, 223, 237, 332, 369, 372, 
470, 476, 485, 486, 495, 497. — E. R. 
Johnson, Woodlands, Sidmouth, Devon ; 
Dec. 7. 
Stock exhausted. — As I have had 
numerous applications for C. Hyale and 
A. Lathonia, I beg to say that my stock 
of duplicates are quite exhausted. I 
hope those gentlemen whose letters I am 
unable to answer will not think me 
wanting in courtesy. — W. P. Haiuung- 
ton, 16, Top of High Street, Colchester, 
Essex ; Dec. 7. 
A Milhridales amongst the Moths . — 
Have you ever heard of a parallel case 
to the following? Last summer I had a 
female of M. Stellatarum brought me. 
I applied sulphuric acid in the usual 
manner to kill it, having no nitric acid 
in the house: it failed. I took it over to 
a chemist close by, and we applied some 
nitric acid without effect. Meantime its 
struggles threatened damage to its beauty, 
and I requested him to apply, as a 
dernier resort, Prussic acid. He took 
the end of a quill and pierced it, and 
allowed it to absorb seven or eight drops 
successively, without producing any other 
effect than increased throbbings and 
struggles, and l believe it was strong 
enough, had we allowed it, to fly about 
the greenhouse. When I dropped it 
into a hand-net, which I had with me 
at the time, it ran up it as nimbly as if 
just caught, but became quieter after a 
good squeeze. The same night I finished 
it with chloroform or ether, — I forget 
which. I have at different times tried 
all the remedies suggested in your jour- 
nal, and have found most of them to fail 
of that speedy effect so desirable. The 
minimum time for chloroform I find to 
be fifteen minutes, and if kept much 
longer the wings have to be relaxed. 
With Geometrina the wings will always 
fold down, inclosing their legs and 
meeting underneath, or nearly so. Per- 
haps some case like that above men- 
tioned may have come to the editorial 
ears, but the writer might not venture 
to publish what to him would be so 
unaccountable. The chemist I have 
mentioned is a naturalist, Orniihology 
being his forte : he had never heard of 
such a dose producing so little effect on 
so small a being, and was satisfied of 
the genuineness of the drug. I would 
respectfully suggest, as a matter which 
may interest your readers, that a few 
pages of the ‘ Intelligencer,’ during the 
