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1356 At this date my observations were discontinued, as I was obliged to leave home.

The hive gradually diminished in weight till it drew but 19lbs. I then removed it at this weight from the balance and placed it in winter quarters. Since re-suspending it this spring, it has continued to decrease, and at this date, April 28th, 1846, it weighs but 131bs. 7oz. The hive never swarmed, which takes away one point of interest I wish I could have furnished. My observations were taken every night exactly at ten o'clock. Should you be pleased to honor this humble communication with your ap- proval, I shall be happy from time to time to furnish you with the result of my observa- tions, not only of the above hive in particular, but generally of others (and I have six- teen others in my garden) on which I am about to try some trifling experiments. Might I be permitted to state that I had the good success of taking from a Nutt's hive last year a fine glass of honey 10lbs weight, and 211bs. in addition from the side box. This hive swarmed, and the swarm weighed 28lbs. the 1st. of September, 1845. The parent-hive is now in very full vigour. The Nutt's box was stocked with two swaims united in June, 1845. I have to apologize for troubling you with so long a letter. — H.R. Harrison; Newark, April 28th, 1845.

[No apology is needed for a communication of this kind : it is to such careful ob- servations as those here recorded that we are indebted for all solid knowledge in Natural History. I shall be glad to publish any further records with which Mr. Har- rison can supply me. — Edward Newman.]

Callimome versicolor. — This species, like Ormyrus punctiger, is parasitic on Cynips mcgaptera, Panzer, which forms galls on the trunks of oak-trees. The female is gol-