THE ENTOMOLOGIST. '2iil 



was a small one, and its course of flight lay across some 

 fields of tall mowing grass, he did not think it worth while to 

 follow them. At the commencement of harvest the labourers 

 on the farm discovered in a hedge, which lay in the line of 

 flight of the wandering swarm, a mass of honeycomb, 

 tenanted by a family of busily working bees. The mass 

 consisted of three combs, the centre one about eight inches 

 in length, flanked by two shorter ones on either side. There 

 was a fair amount of honey in the comb. It was Mr. Row- 

 laud's iuteuliou to take the nest and present it to some 

 museum, but unfortunately some cattle got into the field and 

 destroyed it before he could carry his purpose into effect. 

 The hedge in which the comb was built was in no way 

 sheltered or protected. — [Rev]. H. Harpiir Crewe ; Drayton- 

 BeaiicJiainp lieclory, Trittg, October 5, 1876. 



Helioiliis anniyer. — Last autumn, while staying in the 

 Isle of Wight, 1 found some larvae feeding on the flower- 

 heads of scarlet geranium. There was so much variety in 

 their colour that 1 made no attempt at delineating them. 

 The markings, which were almost su|)pressed in the brown 

 specimens, were very distinct and ornamental in the green. 

 They were so numerous that I supposed theui to be the larva? 

 of a common moth, and did not keep more than half-a- 

 dozen. 1 tried to feed them on other flowers, but they ate 

 nothing but the flower-buds and petals of geraniuni. They 

 were in the act of changing to the pnpa state when 1 left the 

 place, and in the journey were injured, so tliat only one has 

 emerged. August 1st. — It proves to be Heliothis armiger. 

 The pupa was light brown, the wing cases greenish ; in a few 

 months it darkened in colour. The shell was so thin as 

 to be almost transparent. — H. M. Golding Bird; 45, Elgin 

 Crescent, Kensington, October 13, 1876. 



Pachytylus miyratorius [the true Locust) near Wells. — I 

 have olien had '* locusts," so-called, sent to me ; but they 

 have generally proved to be the large green grasshopper 

 (Acrida \ iridissima), or larva; of the privet, or of the death's- 

 head hawk-moth. But last week a specimen of the true 

 locust ^Pachvtyhis migraioriiis) was biought to me, foiuul at 

 Woodford, near this city, in a bean-field. The specimen is 

 identical with some 1 have in my cabinet from Egypt and 

 Australia, the wing-cases being of a speckled- brown colour, 



