I placed him in a box in warmth and quiet, with some small fragments of paper from a Boethius, printed by Caxton, and a leaf of a seventeenth century book.

He ate a small piece of the leaf, but either from too much fresh air, from unaccustomed liberty, or from change of food, he gradually weakened, and died in about three weeks.

I was sorry to lose him, as I wished to verify his name in his perfect state.

Mr.Waterhouse, of the Entomological department of the British Museum, very kindly examined him before death, and was of opinion he was OEcophora pseudospretella.
In July, 1885, Dr.Garnett, of the British Museum, gave me two worms which had been found in an old Hebrew Commentary just received from Athens.

They had doubtless had a good shaking on the journey, and one was moribund when I took charge, and joined his defunct kindred in a few days.