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not breed the Aphilothrix, although he ouce met with the 

 larva ; Giraud being the first to describe the perfect insect, 

 and he only had two galls, out of some thirty or forty, which 

 produced the proper gall-maker, the others being infested 

 with Synergi, of which Dr. Mayr gives two species as 

 inhabiting these galls, viz. S. nervosus and S. vulgaris; 

 Ratzebuig says Siphonura brevicauda, Nees, was bred from 

 them by Hartig. I found one specimen of this very remark- 

 able gall last July (1874) at Rayleigh, but failed to meet with 

 others. See Ent. Mo. Mag. xi. 110.— £". ^. Fiich. 



A Month'' s Eniomologising in North Kent, 

 By W. H. TuGWELL, Esq. 



A MONTH in the country ! This may seem a small matter 

 to many of my favoured "brothers of the green-gauze net;" 

 but to a pent-up Londoner it is a weighty and anxious 

 question to settle, where he will fix his tent for his annual 

 campaign ; and, having in successive years tried the New 

 Forest, Isle of Wight, Devonshire, Dorset, and Sussex, this 

 July, 1875, 1 determined to try my own county, viz. North 

 Kent, and endeavour to get a new series of Apalura Iris, 

 which lordly species I had not taken since 1858; so having 

 secured some comfortable rooms at a farm-house, in a very 

 wooded district between the Thames and Medway, on July 

 Cth I arrived at my intended hunting-grounds. A iew miles 

 walk across country, on a hot July morning, had prepared an 

 appetite for an inside-lining of sandwich and the juice of the 

 grape. I sat down on a gate at the entrance of a wood 

 to discuss these animal necessities, and complete for the 

 nonce my mundane happiness by a pipe — when, lo ! sailing 

 grandly overhead came his imperial majesty, displaying 

 proudl}', it would seem, his newly-acquired purple robes, and 

 settled a k\\ feet above my head on the outer branches of a 

 young ash. I could only sit and contemplate his imperial 

 majesty, and enjoy the sight of his rare beauty as he sat on 

 his leafy throne, as at the moment I was quite unprepared to 

 invade his sylvan retreat, having only a very short-handled 

 net at hand. During my stay, however, I had the pleasure 

 of taking fourteen, — seven males and seven females. The 



