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bowels. 4. It is good for them that have the cough or ptisick. 5. If a man take it not as his common drink, hut every now and then as physick, he shall receive much benefit thereby, against quotidian agues, cachexies, and against all the diseases of the brain, as the epilepsy, &c. for which wine is pernicious. 6. It is very good against the yellow-jaundice. 7. It is also a counter-poison. 8. It nourisheth the body, and is consequently good against the consumption, and all emaciating diseases. 9. It is the best thing in the world for the prolongation of life. Pollio Romulus (who was a hundred years old) imputed the continuance of his health to this soveraign liquor, who, being asked by Augustus the emperor, by what means especially he had preserved that vigour, both of mind and body; his answer was, Intus mulso, /oris oleo, by the use of metheglin inwardly, and of oyl outwardly. The same thing is manifested from the example of the ancient Britains, who have all along been addicted to meath and metheglin, and than whom no people in the world had more clear, beautiful and healthful bodies; of whose metheglin, Lobel writeth thus: Cambricus ille potus methægla, est altera liquida, et limpida septentrionis theriaca. The British metheglin, says he, is a sort of liquid and clear treacle of the north."—p. 133.

 

Dr. Bevan's 'Honey Bee' is a well known work on the same subject: its publication will be fresh in the memory of many of our readers: the estimation in which it is held is sufficiently manifested by the call for a second and enlarged edition. It is our honest wish that each of these works may bring an abundant honey -harvest to its author, and thus remunerate him for his labours on behalf of bees and men. K.

 

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Short Communications about Insects.

 

Description of Erycina Margaretta, (White). Wings above and below bright saffron yellow; the upper wings above, at the tips, have

alternate bars of dark brownish black and white, diminishing in length towards the posterior tip, where the orange-saffron colour of the general surface runs to the margin, forming a short bar, as broad as two of the others taken together: this is followed by a small, triangular, brownish-black spot; the dark brown bars and this spot line the nervures of the wing at the end:—in the lower wing the saffron colour, near the margin, is digitated; at the end of each of the " fingers " is a small white spot; round the posterior margin there are six triangular black spots, each of which seemingly is traversed by a vein. The under side is very similar to the upper—the white spots round the margin of the lower wing are much larger, and occupy nearly all the orange-saffron "finger."