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church last evening a friend and I took a walk, and, as is my 

 usual practice, I cast a glance up at the lamps, and espied a 

 specimen of D. Templi inside a lamp, which I secured by 

 climbing; then another turned up, and the same modus 

 operandi had to be gone through, which was by no means an 

 easy one, for one suffering through rheumatism. Finally, an 

 outside lamp seemed to be worth exploring : my friend let me 

 stand on his shoulders, and I could see more than we had 

 pins for, so we set off to borrow some, and again I mounted 

 the lamp ; by sheer necessity I managed to get astride of the 

 cross-bar to keep both hands at liberty, and there I pinned 

 five specimens and lost two, makiug seven in all in one lamp. 

 — J. B. Hodgkinson ; 15, Spring Bank, Preston, October 

 20, 1873. 



Cucnllia Gnaphalii and C. Asteris larvae in Kent. — I had 

 the pleasure of taking the larva of C. Gnaphalii on the 10th 

 of August, near Seal, Kent; and again on the 17th and 2ith. 

 Also a good number of C. Asteris larvae on the 4th, 1 0th, 17tli, 

 24th, and 25th, at the same place, and at Darenth Wood. — 

 James Bryant. 



Sesia Allantiformis near Greenhithe. — It may be interest- 

 ing to the readers of the ' Entomologist' to know that I 

 was fortunate enough to capture a male specimen of Sesia 

 Allantiformis of Newman in the month of July, 1872, 

 near to Greenhithe Station. It was exhibited at the monthly 

 meeting on the 6th of November, and at the annual exhibition 

 on the 13th of November, 1873, of the Haggerston Entomo- 

 logical Society. — Id. 



Hijponomeuta padellus. — The enclosed moths have just 

 come out of their cocoon, and, as I can find no description 

 of them in your ' British Moths,' I shall feel very much 

 obliged if you will inform me what they are. I have just 

 found its caterpillar in a web : it feeds on hawthorn. — J. 

 Benson ; Hatcnby, near Helmsley. 



[I have some doubt as to the name of this common and 

 most destructive insect. Haworth calls it Erminea Padi, 

 considering that the same species infests both the apple and 

 the hawthorn ; but he describes five varieties. Mr. Stainton, 

 our only other English author who has described these 

 insects, also considers the apple ermine and hawthorn 

 ermine to constitute but a single species, which he calls 



