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during the remainder of its larval condition, and -when in the nymph state. This 



last stage is but of short duration, not exceeding thirty-six to forty-eight hours. 



I last saw it as a larva on the morning of the 8th July, and on the 10th of the same 



mouth it had assumed the perfect form. 



Head very pale yellow ; Face-lohes projecting considerably forward, apex narrowly 

 black, and with a few longish pale hairs. Eyes purplish. Antennce as in the $ • 



Thorax — pro- and mesonotum very pale yellow, side margins of the latter naiTowly 

 fuscous. Wytra and legs as in the S • 



Abdomen clear pale bright green, upper margin longitudinally very convex : genitalia 

 clear pale bright green, genital segment stumpy, anterior margin about equal to 

 the length, upper plate broad, brownish towards the apex which is black, lower 

 plate narrow, pale greenish-yellow, apex black. Length, barely I5 line. 



As there are several species of Atriplex in this country, and amongst them 



A. angustifolia, which Babington seems to think is identical with A. patula, and 



says is common, it is not improbable that by searching T. airiplicis may be found 



here.— John Scott, 1, St. Mildred's Terrace, Bx-oraley Eoad, Lee, S.E. : 16th 



August, 1879. 



Popular Entomology. — " I send you a specimen of the grape-pest, called 

 Fhylloxera, which I found in a bunch of grapes lately imported. I at first thought 

 it to be a Colorado beetle, and although I am informed it is not, still it resembles 

 the potato-pest very much. The animal is alive, and may interest you, and I 

 should be glad to hear what you think of it." — W. Gr. 



" Very like a whale !" The insect sent to me was the not uncommon British 

 Hemipterous Eurygaster maurtis ! The correspondent, who being eventually satisfied 

 that his capture was not a Colorado-beetle, yet has no doubt it is a Fhylloxera of 

 the grape-vine, is a too common example of the utter ignorance of natural objects 

 prevalent among otherwise intelligent persons, even when the names of the objects 

 are " familiar in their mouths as household words. "^ — J. W. DorGLAS, 8, Beaufort 

 Gardens, Lewisham : Qth September, 1879. 



Notes on some garden-insects in 1879.^ — During this exceptionally wet, cold, and 

 sunless year, in which there has been neither spring nor summer weather, I have 

 had no opportunity of making observations except in my garden, and then often by 

 the aid of an umbrella not inverted, yet it may be worth while to publish a note of 

 some of the concomitants of the climatal eccentricities : — 



Abraxas grossnlariata. — The hibernating pupae, of which I had a note in vol. 

 XV, p. 205, were swept away by the storms of later date, and I know not, therefore, 

 if moths would have been developed at all or earlier than usual from them or from 

 others similarly conditioned, but surviving ; — it was an inauspicious time for the 

 aspiring experiment. At any rate, I saw no moths until July and August, and 

 these, as far as I know, had proceeded from the ordinarily-hibernated larvsE which 

 had escaped from the attack I made upon the brood that appeared in April in great 

 abundance, notwithstanding the raid I had made on their race last autumn. The moths, 

 I am glad to say, were few, the small number being due, I trust, to my persistent 

 enmity, and it is to be hoped that for their own sake their progeny will also be few, 

 for there is very little for them to eat. 



