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at sugar Tiypha^na subseqna. I am infoimed that tliis is the 

 first recorded capture in Yorkshire. — JV. H. Hartvood. 



Diantlioicia capsincola at Sugar. — On visiting niy sugared 

 trees on Friday last (August 20th) I was very much surprised 

 to find a fine lemale of Dianthcecia capsincola. Is it not very 

 unusual to find any of this genus at sugar? — A. Thurnall ; 

 Whitllesford, Camhridgesliire, August 21, 1875. 



Caiocala promisfta near Ipswich. — I took a solitary Cato- 

 cala proniissa last night, at sugar, in good order. The insect 

 has not been seen in these parts for years. I have also taken 

 Lithosia quadra in two places. — C. F. Long; Borough 

 Asi/lum, Ipswich, August 22, 1875. 



Sarrothripa Revayana. — I am now breeding Sarrothripa 

 Revayana, from larvae beaten from oak in the New Forest 

 last month. This is a very singular insect, and it seems 

 diflicult to decide to what family it really belongs. Its little 

 boat-shaped cocoon seems to indicate a close relationship to 

 the genera Nola and II alias ; but the Tortrix-like form of the 

 perfect insect, combined with the method of folding its wings, 

 like a Crambus when at rest, makes it quite a puzzle. The 

 larva was new to me, and I did not know whether to think it 

 a Bombyx or a Noctua, as it seemed to have some of the 

 characters of both. — JV, H. Harivood. 



The Plague of Locusts in America. By Edavard Newman. 



(Concluded from p. 179.) 



I WILL now turn back, and, still availing myself of Mr. 

 Bethune's admirable summary, endeavour to show that the 

 locust, although so rarely heard of in England as an insect 

 scourge in America, is no novelty in transatlantic regions. 

 The earliest record of the visitation of locusts in America is 

 to be found in Gage's ' West Indies,' a work of which I am 

 unhappily ignorant, except through the extract made by Mr. 

 Bethune. The following refers to the year 1632: — 



'' The first year of my abiding there it pleased God to send 

 one of the plagues of Egypt to that country, which was of 

 locusts, which 1 had never seen till then. They were after 

 the manner of our grasshoppers, but somewhat bigger, which 

 did fly about in numbers so thick and infinite that they did 

 truly cover the face of the sun, and hinder the shining forth 



