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describes Vestianella, Sarcitella, Crinella, and Mellonella. —W. 
Macminuan ; Castle Cary, Somerset. 
[Endrosis fenestrella, Stainton’s ‘ Manual,’ 11. 359, is known on 
the Continent as LH. lacteella of the Vienna Catalogue (Schiffer- 
miller and Denis). This moth must not, however, be confounded 
with Laverna lacteclla, Steph. (‘ Manual,’ 1. 398)—a very different 
species. Although Riley mostly uses the Stephensian names, 
Laverna sarcitella, Stephens, is Hndrosis fenestrella. T’. vestianella, 
Stephens and Wood, is 7’. rusticella, Hiibner ; ‘ Manual,’ 11. 290. 
T.. crinella, Treitschke, Duponchel, &e., 1s 7’. biselliella, Hummel ; 
‘Manual,’ ii. 293; also of the late Mr. Healy’s life-history at 
Entom. iv. 194—6. This is 7’. destructor of Stephens. Jfello- 
pella (the wax moth) is a Galleria, and described under that 
name in the ‘Manual’ (11. 164). Linné described the two sexes 
as distinct species—the male as cereana ; the female as mellonella. 
Stephens used the former name.-—H. A. F.] 
EXTRAORDINARY ABUNDANCE OF WASPS IN THE STEWARTRY 
or KirkcupsBriagHt.— The proverbial oldest inhabitant cannot 
remember a year when wasps were in such enormous multitudes as 
they are here this season. I have heard of several places where the 
nests were so numerous, and their inmates so aggressive, that the 
haymakers were ignominiously chased from the field. Last week 
we counted sixteen nests on a measured half acre of meadow hay 
at Dalscairth. On about one hundred yards of the adjoining 
public road we counted, on the roadsides, upwards of thirty-five 
nests. On an avenue of about three hundred yards in length, 
leading to a gentleinan’s mansion, upwards of seventy nests were 
seen, and in and around a walled garden of about three acres in 
extent nearly forty nests were found. It is positively dangerous 
to leave the pathways in the copse-woods—nests of Vespa 
norvegica and V. sylvestris hang in every thicket, and a very slight 
disturbance of their household suffices to bring out a swarm of 
angry warriors. These are fair instances of what this county 
produces this year in the wasp line. Of the ground-builders, 
V. germanica is the most numerous species; next comes V. 
vulgaris, and V. rufa is in limited numbers. In the meantime the 
wasps may be considered as beneficial to various interests ; and 
we know a large fruit garden, where the trees were badly infested 
with “‘ mussel-scale,” which has been almost entirely cleared off. 
The industry shown by the wasps in hunting up the few remaining 
