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MISCELLANY. 
it to the notice of our readers, especially to such as have not procured the elegant 
though more expensive work of Mr. Bell. The matter is well condensed, and 
the student will find under each of the animals much information on specific 
characters (including careful admeasurements), habits and distribution. The 
plates manifest the usual fault of over-colouring, and in some instances the 
attitudes are neither well chosen nor well executed. Owing to the number of 
plates being restricted to thirty-four, several of the Bats and Seals are not figured. 
The omission, though necessary, is to be regretted.—P. R. 
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. 
Just published, in two vols., post 8vo., with illustrations, a Seven-Weeks Tour 
in Belgium , Switzerland , Lombardy , &c., by John Roby, Esq., M.R.S.L. This 
work, and the two first parts of Prof. Jones’s General Outline of the Animal 
Kingdom , will be reviewed at an early opportunity. 
CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES, 
ZOOLOGY. 
Elater crocatus .—I have lately seen announced in the Entomological Magazine , 
as new to Britain, Elater crocatus , in Shire wood (qu. Sherwood ?) Forest. I 
took a single specimen on a Hazle near the banks of Winander Mere (or Wray 
Tarn ?), so far back as June 11,1827* 1 then considered it to be E. pomonce, 
but on comparing it with some specimens in London, I find it is E. crocatus. 
—J. C. Dale, Glanvilles Wootton , Dorsetshire , May 15, 1838.—[[This insect 
has since been included in the second edition of Mr. Curtis’s Guide .— Ed.] 
How to kill Wasps. —The usual plan adopted by gardeners and others of 
destroying these voracious plunderers, with saucers and bottles of treacle, or sugar- 
water, is very bungling and uncertain. This plan is good as far as it goes, but 
it is only a u half measure,” for numbers of the Wasps crawl out and escape in 
all directions. As soon as a Wasp has entangled itself in the treacle, let it crawl 
out, and then place a drop of camphorated spirit upon its head, when it will 
almost instantly expire. The same dose may be exhibited with great effect, and 
no inconvenience, to the hosts of Wasps so numerous and so troublesome in 
houses. A weak solution of turpentine will succeed equally well. We should 
