182 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



3. The specimens of Zygaena so kindly sent do not agree 

 with Lonicerae in any of the characters noticed by Mr. 

 Doubleday. — Edward Newman.} 



Names of Moths. — Would you kindly oblige me by naming 

 these three little insects ? One I take to be Erastria venus- 

 lula, discovered by Mr. Doubleday in Epping ; the bright 

 pink faded very much after death. The other is, I think, 

 Erastria fuscula. Both are common here, especially the first. 

 I could have caught a hundred off the heath one evening 

 (Tuesday, June 2nd). The other little black longhorn I cannot 

 find a trace of in my books : they were flying over water in 

 the forest; I took six or seven one evening. — David M. Q. 

 Price ; West Street, Horsham, July 21, 1874. 



[Only one wing, that of Erastria fuscula, could be recog- 

 nized. The rest of the insects were literally ground to 

 powder. Please pack more carefully another time. The 

 discovery of Erastria venustula at Horsham would be very 

 interesting. — Edward Newman.] 



The Dor-beetle (Entom. vii. 132). — With regard to ray 

 notes, and the editorial remarks thereon, I fear I am unable 

 to offer any very satisfactory materials for judgment. First, 

 respecting the specific name of the beetle 1 am not sure, and 

 I foolishly did not secure any for identification, but on the 

 first opportunity, after reading Mr. Newman's remarks, I 

 made a journey to the heaths, expecting to ^ndso77ie speci- 

 mens, at least, of the beetles I had seen so commonly on my 

 previous visit. I was, however, doomed to a most grievous 

 disappointment, for not a specimen was visible upon the 

 grassy plot, where, but a comparatively short time ago, 

 hundreds were lying dead and disemboweled. 1 observed a 

 number of what I suppose were mouse-holes about in the 

 grass, but whether they explain anything with regard to the 

 — to me — mysterious disappearance of the beetles I am not 

 prepared to say, neither can I assign any plausible reason for 

 the mortality which had previously taken place amongst the 

 Coleoptera. Many of the tunnels formed by the beetles 

 were still visible, and as far as a pocket-knife was available I 

 used it in digging into some of them, in the hope of finding 

 one of the beetles. By this examination I obtained one dead 

 specimen (which I send), but I am by no means certain it is 

 the same species I saw working, for, if I mistake not, its 



