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these puff-balls. Many years since I found it abundantly in 
the several stages of larva, pupa, and imago, in the puff-balls 
growing among the grass, beneath the firs which formerly 
occupied that portion of Birch Wood nearest to the road. I 
believe that the entomologist is now driven off this once- 
productive insect-hunting ground, and that it is occupied 
by poachers, gamekeepers, gipsies, hop-pickers, and those 
varied but nearly-allied sections of mankind which have 
succeeded him wherever he has been expelled.— Edward 
Newman .] 
Aphis of the Beech. —I have been much struck with the 
appearance of the beeches in this neighbourhood : the leaves 
are in many instances covered with a small Aphis-like insect, 
which exudes or emits a cottony substance of a pure white 
colour and highly glutinous nature; this sometimes seems 
to take a different character, and settles on the leaves in the 
form of resinous drops.— E. Johnson; Reigate. 
[“The insect in question is Aphis Fagi of Linneus; it is 
now called Phyllaphis {Koch) Fagi. It is of common occur¬ 
rence on beech-leaves.— Francis Walker .” (In a note to 
E. Newman.) Will Mr. Walker inform us on some future 
occasion what this exudation really is, and whether it is of 
any ascertained importance in the economy of the insect.— 
Edward Newman.) 
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological 
Society , February 17 to March 17, 1S73. 
Salivary Organs of the Honey Bee. —Mr. F. Smith read 
the following translation of some notes :—‘ On the Salivary 
Organs of the Honey Bee,’ by C. Th. v. Siebold. “At the 
annual agricultural meeting held in October, 1871, at Munich, 
a well-known apiarian, Herr Mehring, had exhibited a pecu¬ 
liar kind of honey, named by him ‘ Kunst-Honig’ (artificial 
honey), which he had produced by feeding his bees exclusively 
with malt. This honey excited great interest; and the 
question was raised (and denied by many), whether this 
substance was real honey; and whether, consequently, the 
bee was able to change malt-sugar in its stomach into honey. 
The physiologico-chemical part of the inquiry into the pro¬ 
ductions of the bee was taken up in Liebig’s laboratory by 
Dr. Von Schneider, who, unfortunately, was prevented from 
