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only name people here can give me is the " processionist" 

 (when they take their walks abroad they go in perfect Indian 

 file). A friend of mine says they are to be found at home. They 

 answer your description of " Cuspidates," but I cannot find 

 any mention of them in the ' Natural History of British 

 Moths;' so I have concluded they are not British. I shall 

 be glad to know if I am correct in this, and also, further, if 

 you will tell me what is the moth. Another fact about them 

 is that the hairs, which their bodies are covered with, are very 

 loose, and, if allowed to get on any part of the person, 

 produce a very unpleasant rash.. — G. F. Heywood ; Hotel 

 des Anglais, Menton, France, February 16, 1872. 



The caterpillar is properly called the " Processionist." 

 It is the Cnethocampa processionea of Stephens' and Stau- 

 dinger's Catalogue; the Bombyx processionea of Linneus : 

 it is an inhabitant of almost all parts of Europe, excepting 

 Sweden, Norway, North Russia, and Britain. The curious 

 habits of these caterpillars of marching in procession is 

 well known, and has been graphically described by Reaumur 

 (Mem. vol. ii. p. 128) ; Kirby and Spence (vol. i. p. 475) ; and 

 a great number of subsequent compilers. From the pictures 

 illustrating the processional habits of this species, 1 should 

 hardly have described them as xndiVchm^m single Jile ; the 

 army seems to be arranged in a gradually increasing file, first 

 a single one as leader, then two abreast, then three abreast, 

 and so on, until they are represented as eight or even nine 

 abreast. The peculiar and irritating character of the hairs is 

 also well known ; and I hope to revert to it on a future 

 occasion when I have more space. 



Siaudinger^s and oilier Synonymic Catalogues of Lepi- 

 doptera. — "In a literary point of view this Catalogue is not 

 without a certain kind of merit; from a natural-history point 

 of view such catalogues are positively worthless : nay, more 

 than this, professedly undertaken to remove confusion, they 

 do nothing but increase it." — 71/. Breyer ; in his ^^ compte 

 rendu" of the Belgian Entomological Society. 



Club Collection. — I beg to express my sincere thanks for 

 the undermentioned contributions since my appeal in the 

 February ' Entomologist : ' — Mr. Birchall, of Leeds, 2 Hyale ; 

 Mr. Skelton, of Faversham, 4 Polychloros; Mr. Corbin, of 

 Ringwood, 3 Actaeon, 3 Sibylla, 2 Cribrura ; Mr. W. Ingall, 

 4 Actaeon. Edward Newman. 



