BISHOP BARNABY

Sir,—I cannot inform LEGOUR why the lady-bird (the seven-spotted, *Coccinella Septempunctata*, is the most common) is called in some places "Bishop Barnaby." This little insect is sometimes erroneously accused of destroying turnips and peas in its larva state; but, in truth, both in the larva and perfect state it feeds exclusively on aphides. I do not know that it visits dairies, and Tusser's "Bishop that burneth," may allude to something else; still there appears some popular connection of the *Coccinellidæ* with *cows* as well as burning, for in the West Riding of Yorkshire they are called *…