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accounts of this phenomenon will please accept this as the 
only explanation I am able to give. 
Name of Insect.—Can you kindly name the enclosed? 
They were found at Cairo running very quickly on the sand 
about a foot at a time, stopping very suddenly and resting 
pressed closely to the sand, being very difficult to see when 
in that position, owing to their similarity in colour to the 
sand. One, as you will see, was brought home dry; the 
other in carbolic acid; the latter is much swollen.—H. 
Jenner-Fust ; Hill Court, Berkeley, May 11, 1871. 
The generic name of the insect is Eremiaphila, but 
I am uncertain of the species: they are figured in the 
great French work on Egypt, pl. 2, figs. 5, 6 and 6a. A 
very full description of these strange desert insects is given 
by Lefebvre in the French annals; and the paper (one of the 
most interesting entomological memoirs I have ever read) 
is admirably translated at p. 66 of vol. iv. of the ‘ Entomolo- 
gical Magazine,’ published in July, 1836. I intend trans- 
ferring a portion of this paper to the ‘ Entomologist,’ 
whenever space can be afforded. 
Otiorhynchus sulcatus and Peach Trees.—The insects, 
described as so injurious to peach trees in orchard-houses, are 
weevils of the genus Otiorhynchus and species sulcatus: 
they feed almost exclusively by night, gnawing off the bark 
from the tender shoots and, of course, killing them. I have 
known them to be got rid of by hand-picking with candle and 
lantern ; but I know of no application that will have the same’ 
effect. 
Kriogaster lanestris—The downy mass of eggs sent by 
Mr. Horley, of Hoddesdon, is deposited by the female of the 
small Eggar moth (Eriogaster lanesus) ; the eggs are arranged 
in a somewhat spiral whorl, which passes obliquely round 
and round the hawthorn twig, and is covered by long, soft, 
silky hairs or scales from the body of the parent: the male 
has no such provision. The young larve live for a while 
in company under a tent or web spun by their united 
exertions, devouring the leaves which they thus enclose; 
but after a time feed singly and exposed. 
Variety of Arctta Mendica.—1 obtained last May a 
moth which, at first sight, I supposed was Arctia Urtice, 
but, on closer examination, appeared to be only a variety of 
