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waking dreams , or, possibly, that it had stimulated him to exercise his craft—his 
notorious love of invention—with a view to the improvement and multiplication 
of his Christmas comforts !— Ed. Nat.~\ 
Specimens of the Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilia garnda) shot in York¬ 
shire. —A few specimens of this elegant bird have been taken with us, and others 
seen during the winters of 1830, 1832, and 1835, The pair in my small col¬ 
lection was shot in the latter year, near Scarborough, and kindly given to me by 
Mr. Benjamin Shaw.—Patrick Hawkridge, Scarborough , Aug. 7, 1837. 
Nyssia zonaria. —At the meeting of our Natural History Society on Tuesday, 
specimens of the above interesting addition to our Fauna were exhibited to the 
members by Mr. F. Taylor, several eminent entomologists having been over 
from Manchester a few days before, and captured a large quantity. Mr. Cooke 
has also had great success in meeting with a good supply. A single specimen of 
the male was taken on the Rushes about half a mile below the Black Rock, at 
New Brighton, near Liverpool, in September, 1882 ; and about the middle of the 
same month, in the following year, from twelve to twenty specimens of the same 
insect, both males and females, were taken in the same locality. The discoverer 
was Mr. Nicholas Cooke, of Liverpool. Mr. Eveleigh, then President of the 
Banksian Society of Manchester, supposing it to be an entirely new species, took 
three specimens to London, for the purpose of having them described in the 
Entomological Magazine . Mr. Newman submitted them to the notice of Mr. 
Stephens, who had never seen anything like them before. Mr. Newman then 
applied to Mr. Children, whose entomological library stands unrivalled in this 
country, and who informed Mr. N. that the insect was Nyssia zonaria of both 
Hubner and Duponchel. The following description is copied from the Ento¬ 
mological Magazine :— 
“Antennee, with cilise, black, the shaft white; pilosity of mesothorax very 
long, dark brown, with two longitudinal white lines, and a dash of white at the 
base of each wing; body nearly black, with six delicate rings, of a pinkish-yellow 
colour; fore wings brown, with two oblique, transverse, white lines nearly 
parallel with the exterior margin, and within these are irregular white markings 
on the disk ; hind wings white, with two broad bands, and the nervures brown ; 
legs black, the tarsi annulated, with white. The female apterous, with seven 
rings on the body. The size is, as nearly as may be, that of Nyssia hispid aria A 
—T. B. Hall, Woodside , near Liverpool, April 4, 1838.—£The genus Nyssia 
belongs to the order Lepidoptera , and contains three British species.— ‘Ed.] 
Animals eat in proportion to their Temperature. —-Warm-blooded animals 
are continually eating; birds, whose temperature is the highest, incessantly, if 
they can obtain food ; whereas the cold-blooded little and seldom. Some make 
