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flowers for the sake of honey, as Syrphidae, Eristalidae, &c., 

 are purely pollen-eaters, and subsist on the hard, dry, pollen 

 granules, produced so abundantly by our autumnal flowers. 

 I cannot avoid concluding that our naicroscopists have never 

 examined the contents of the abdomen of a Syrphus, stuff'ed, 

 as it often is, like a pincushion, with perfectly dry pollen. I 

 fully unite with my correspondent in regretting that many 

 entomologists are notmicroscopists, — doubtless entomologists 

 should utilise the microscope more extensively; but I must 

 couple my lamentation with a wail equally heartrending, that 

 many microscopists are not entomologists, or we should never 

 have waited until 1873 to learn a fact so very patent as that 

 the flower-loving Diptera feed on pollen. Let us help one 

 another, and both will receive the benefit. — E. Neimjinii.] 



S. von Stllrmer. — What to look for. — Two or three of us, 

 young as collectors, take in the ' Entomologist,' and it is most 

 interesting, but its records are all of the past. I would 

 suggest that some hints as to what to do, or what one may 

 expect for the time of year, be made for the coming month, 

 or rather the month of publication. 1 do not mean a perfect 

 list, for that would be impossible, but some of the more 

 common and larger insects. This would be I know a great 

 boon to many. — S. v. S. 



[I would suggest the purchase of ' Merrin's Calendar,' 

 which shows what may be expected every month. — Edward 

 Newman.^ 



Mrs. Netvhouse. — Name of a Moth. — Mrs. Newhouse will 

 be obliged if Mr. Newman will kindly name the moth, half 

 of which is enclosed. 



[Euplexia lucipara. — E. Newman.'] 



Milliere's Work. — I bought, at the late Mr. Henry 

 Doubleday's sale, Milliere's ' Iconographie et Description de 

 Lepidopteres et Chenilles Inedits.' Nos. 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 

 32, 33, and 34, are missing. If any of Mr. Doubleday's 

 friends have these numbers, and do not want them, will they 

 communicate with me ? — [Rev.l H. Harpur Crewe; Draylon- 

 Beauchamp Rectory, Tring, October 7, 1875. 



West London Entomological Society. — The Third Annual 

 Exhibition of the above Society will take place in the 



