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extranea has been already recorded (Entom. viii. 110). — 

 Edward Newman. 



J. Jones. — Phigalia pilosaria : Does it Feed on anything 

 but Oak ? — Will you kindly tell me through the ' Entomolo- 

 gist' if ever the larva of P. pilosaria feeds on anything but 

 oak? as I have taken two males this season — one on a gas- 

 lamp in January, the other in March — and there is no oak 

 growing anywhere near. 



[I know of no other food-plant, or should have mentioned 

 it. — Edivard Neivman.'] 



F. H. Ward. — Lepismodes inquiliniis. — In reply to your 

 enquiry touching my note on this insect (Entom. viii. 120), 

 the information will be most readily communicated by copy- 

 ing the original note, published in the 'Zoologist' for 1863, 

 at p. 8496. It is as follows: — "New Insect at the Friends'' 

 Institute. — In our London houses two species of insects may 

 be said to swarm ; these are the cockroach and the cricket. 

 Everyone knows an infallible cure for these pests, just as 

 everyone knows an infallible cure for whooping-cough and 

 lumbago ; everyone recommends the cure to his afflicted 

 neighbour; but every human body continues subject to the 

 two complaints, and every human habitation shelters the two 

 obnoxious fellow-lodgers. The third fellow-lodger, which I 

 propose to call Lepismodes inquilinus, and to which I can 

 give no English name, is confined, so far as my knowledge 

 extends, to the building known as the Friends' Institute, 

 12, Bishopsgate Street Without. Its body is half an inch 

 long, and it has antenna and tails each half an inch long, or 

 rather more, so that the entire length is rather more than an 

 inch and a half. Like a judicious epicure it prefers the 

 dining-room to every other apartment in the house, and, like 

 an experienced pilferer, its rambles are entirely nocturnal, 

 concealing itself behind the wainscot by day, and wandering 

 about by night in search of such provisions as sugar, crumbs, 

 and other comestibles. It seems to find no very secure foot- 

 ing on the varnished surface of the wainscoting, and this 

 physical infirmity led to its detection, for, whilst perambulating 

 the treacherous varnish, it frequently lost its hold, and was 

 precipitated, headlong, into cups, saucers, sugar-basins, and 

 slop-l3asins, and, once in, its infirmity of "poor" or non- 

 prehensile feet effectually preclude its escape. The various 

 household utensils which 1 have mentioned are now used as 



