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left a few inches in length; sometimes the bark will be 
taken off in a circle, at others it is only nibbled in places and 
thus made rough to the touch. I know of no remedy but 
hand-picking,—very tedious, certainly, but efficient: take a 
basin of hot water and a lantern, and search diligently for the 
weevils just above the graft, pick them off one by one, and 
drop them into the water; they die almost instantly.— 
Edward Newman. 
Hepialus Velleda on the Quaniock Hills. —Whilst collect¬ 
ing a short time ago, in Somersetshire, I saw amongst a small 
collection made by a beginner, at Kingston, a specimen of 
Hepialus Velleda, which had been taken on the Quantock 
Hills. As this entomologist had never exchanged a moth, 
and as the Velleda was set like the rest of the collection, with 
a common pin, 1 think there can be no doubt he was correct 
in his statement of its capture. My friend Mr. Bidgood, of 
the Museum, Taunton, has also received information of the 
capture of specimens of this species upon the Quantocks.— 
A. G. Spiller; Wimhorne Minster, Dorset, June , 1873. 
Vitality of Life in Larva of Z. Filipendulw. —A larva of 
Filipendulae spun cocoon and changed to pupa after having 
been kept nineteen days without food.— G. Arnold; 143, 
Seven Sisters Road, Holloway , April 20, 1873. 
Collecting in the Lake District. —Can you, or any of the 
readers of the ‘Entomologist,’ inform me what is to be done 
in collecting Lepidoptera in the English lake district in the 
month of September ? A few hints in the next number 
would be very acceptable.— Henry Miller, jun.; Ipswich, 
June 23, 1873. 
[I would suggest an application to Mr. C. S. Gregson or 
Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson. I possess no information except 
through these distinguished entomologists.— E. Newman.'] 
Lycoperdina Bovistce. —Will you please to name the little 
beetles which I enclose : they were found in fungi, about 
the size and shape of a swan’s-egg pear, growing on a heath 
beyond Claremont, in Surrey; they were under fir-trees. 
Every fungus contained two or three beetles, and there was a 
hole at the top, which served as a chimney for the emission 
of smoke, as well as a ventilator for the admission of air.— 
J. C. 
[The insect is Lycoperdina Bovistse. I believe it has 
never been found in any other situation than the interior of 
