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lived in the interior of the berry. But as there were also brown-spotted bci-ries, 
which did not contain larva3, we found it safest and most convenient to gather a 
number without any special investigation. The conjecture that the larvae would 
remain in the berries throughout the winter has not been confirmed ; they quit the 
bei-ries and spin an elongate silken cocoon on the surface of the ground, in which 
they remain unchanged. Hence the pupa state is not assumed till the winter is 
over. The larvse appear to be very numerous in proportion to the number of the 
perfect insects which we generally see, but probably many of them perish during 
the winter. 
In the Prater, at Vienna, the perfect insects were abundant at the beginning 
of August on the Almis incana, Ivhich is there so plentiful ; in what multitudes 
must the larvse occur there in Autumn ! It also occurs on Alnus glutinosa, since 
the imago is found on that tree in localities where there is no Alnus incana. — 
Professor Zeller, Meseritz, February 2nd, 1868. 
A yellow-handed variety of Sesia culiciformis. — Noticing the interesting account 
of the capture of varieties of Sesia culiciformis in recent numbers of the Magazine, 
I have thought it might be worth while recording that I was myself fortunate 
enough to cajjture one with a broad yellow band. It was sunning itself on a large 
newly-cut birch stump. On the day after, Mr. Chas. Linton captured his example 
(I was with him at the time). I should be happy to show mine to any gentlemen 
who are interested in varieties. — James Bryant, 63, Old Broad Street, E.G., Jan. 
14t7i., 1868. 
Macroglossa stellatarum at the end of November. — A very good specimen of 
Macroglossa stellatarii,m was sent me from Southsea on the 27th November. I am 
told it had been seen for a day or two before, flying about in the garden, and had 
eventually flown in at a window. Is not this very late ? The weather was very cold 
and frosty, but fine. — L. M. S. Paslet, Admiralty House, Portsmouth, December 
26th, 1867. 
CoLEOPTERA Hesperidum, ty T. V. Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. ; London, J. Van 
Voorst, 1867. — This little volume is indispensable to all who possess the former 
works by its distinguished author on the Madeiran aud Canarian Coleoptera, as it 
concludes the three groups of Sub-African Atlantic Islands, by treating of the Cape 
Verde Archipelago. The general conclusion to be arrived at from its perasal is, as 
suggested by Mr. Wollaston, that what that gentleman has termed the " Atlantic 
type " is still preserved in the Cape Verde Islands, though so enormously distant 
from, and more Southernly than, the Madeiran and Canary groups. This conclusion, 
with other considerations, pi'oclaims (according to the author, and apparently with 
great reason) that all these islands are the unsubmorged portions of 
a vast province, different from the African continent. Three salt-marsh and sandy 
islands of the Cape do Verde group remain yet to be investigated, but from the 
six others examined by Mr. Wollaston 278 species only have resulted, of which the 
