H.C. DE ST. CROIX.

_Cheshire-round_.--"W.P.A." asks the meaning of the above phrase, and

where it is described.

_Why is an Earwig called a "Coach-bell?"_--Your correspondents,

although both kind and learned, do not appear to have given any

satisfactory answer to my former query--why a lady-bird is called

Bishop Barnaby? Probably there will be less difficulty in answering

another entomological question--Why do the country-people in the south

of Scotland call an earwig a "coach-bell?" The name "earwig" itself is

sufficiently puzzling, but "coach-bell" seems, if possible, still more

utterly unintelligible.

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