Reports to various Correspondents. 31 



Imrst in Kent. It does a good deal of damage to a tree and is Ly no 

 means uncommon in Kent, being frequently sent from orchards 

 round Maidstone and Tonbridge. ]\Ir. Till, of Eynsford, writes : " It 

 is very destructive, and I lind one young tree quite destroyed by the 

 perforating action going on in the trunk — an apple. I have had the 

 specimen I send on my desk two or three weeks papered up, but I 

 see the destruction of the wood goes on all the same, so the grub 

 is not dependent on living tissue." It occurs in apple, pear and 

 cherry mostly. This pest is dealt with in the Board of Agriculture 

 leaflet, No. 73. 



The Little Ermine Moths {Hyponomeutlda^, 



Enquiries concerning the Little Ermine Moths which attack 

 tipple trees and hawthorn hedges are some years very numerous ; in 

 1903, as with many other insect pests, they have been largely con- 

 spicuous by their absence. The only enquiry received has been from 

 Mr. Wm. Bear, of Magham Down, Hailsham, who, in writing for 

 information concerning these pests on the apple, sent the following 

 •observation, which has not I fancy been previously recorded : 

 •" Numbers of these small moths," ^viites Mr. Bear, " are on my apple 

 trees (4. 8. 03), and when disturbed drop to the ground with wings 

 folded and can be caught by hand easily." AVriting five days later, 

 he says, " Very few can be found now." They were examined, and 

 from various descriptions I am led to believe that this apple pest is 

 jiot the same as that found on the hawthorn, any more than the two 

 are the same species on the Continent. The apple species was 

 separated by Zeller and is known as H. malinella, the hawthorn 

 species is H. padcUa, L., the name by which our apple species has 

 been previously recorded. 



An account of the two species injurious] to fruit trees is given 

 here. 



The Apple Eemine Moth of Gp.eat Bkitain {Hijpononwuta 

 malinella, Zeller), and other Species. 



The Small Ermine ]\Ioths or Hi/poiwmmtirlfe, of which there are 

 seven species found in Great Britain, are easily known by the leaden 

 grey or white front wings having small l^lack spots spread over them 

 and by the habit of their larvir living under a nest of silk. Three 

 of the seven species live during tlieir caterpillar existence on the 

 foliage of the Spindle tree {EitowjnULS europmis), namely IT. plum- 



