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bave far difFeveiit notes to these: just disturb tbem, and they 

 will sometimes fly about one's head with an angry, shrill, 

 piping note ; then, again, take them in your fingers, and they 

 will emit quite a piteous whine ; some, instead of the easy, 

 comfortable drone, hum with an eager, restless note, as if they 

 thought every minute ought to have ninety seconds instead 

 of sixty; and all intermediate notes may be heard. — J. D. 

 Bridgman {in President's Address, Norfolk and Norwich 

 Nafuralisls' Society). 



The Hop Weevil (Entom. ix. 134) : Postscript. — My friend 

 has employed about a dozen men and women, night and day, 

 to hunt his hops for this destructive creature. They remove 

 the soil round the hop-stool in the day-time, and at night 

 (having a light) they pick the weevils off the hop bine. This 

 they have been continually doing for some time. Prior to my 

 having written you on the subject, I had advised him to try 

 hand-picking by night. — E. R. Sheppard ; 13, Limes Villas, 

 High Road, Lewisham, Kent, S.E., May 24, 1876. 



Entomological Pins. — I have for some time thought that 

 there is need of a rearrangement of the sizes of entomological 

 pins. I applied to Messrs. Tayler last year to know if they 

 would make me a new size, but they declined. I think if 

 you appealed to the entomological world, through the ' Ento- 

 mologist,' as to whether the need is universally felt, and they 

 replied in the affirmative, no doubt Messrs. Tayler would 

 meet their wishes. The new sizes I suggest are — one same 

 length as No. 10, one between No. 10 and No. 15, one same 

 length as No. 5, — all the same strength as No* 7 (or No. 15 ; 

 I am not sure whether these two are of the same strength or 

 not). This would give a graduated scale from length of 

 No. 10 to length of No. 5, all the same strength; a strength 

 which I think is best suited for all specimens, except some 

 of the larger moths. — C. Lemesle Adams ; Walford Manor, 

 Shrewsbury, June 23, 1876. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



S. Bradbury. — Name of an Insect. — I enclose you a fly 

 which I found in my pupa3-box. How it came there is quite 

 unknown to me, as 1 do not think it is one of the Ichneumon 



