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segments being retractile. Just above, in the box, is a specimen of Macror/lossa 

 stellatarum, tlie liuniming bird, with its larva; and just below is Macroglossa 

 Sombi/liformis, very much resembling a bee. I have taken one specimen of each 

 of the imago and larva of this species. Of the genus Scsia or Clearwings, which 

 closely resemble wasps, hornets, flies, and ichneumons. Dr. Wood has taken nine 

 out of the fourteen species. They are most of them rare and difficult to find ; we 

 have only taken two in the Leominster district, but, then, I know we have not 

 looked for them in the right way. There are in the box two Sesia Tipuliformis, 

 the larva of which is destructive to currant trees. Zeuzera (Esculi— the Leopard, 

 — so destructive to trees in the parks and squares of London, is rare in the 

 county, but we have taken a few specimens in the perfect state, and found one 

 larva full fed burrowing in a hawthorn stem. Its neighbour, Cossns Ligniperda, 

 the goat, is only too common ; a large oak tree near Grantsfield had to be cut 

 down it was so infested with this larva ; the wood was quite spoiled. Willow is 

 its more usual food. It remains three j'ears in the larval state, and is easily 

 detected by the smell, which is as powerful as that of a fox or a goat. That most 

 lovely and rare moth, as its name signifies, Deiopeia Pulchella, has been taken 

 twice in the county, both times by young collectors ; the first time by Mr. A. E. 

 Edwards, of Hereford, at King's Acre, in June, 1880, and the second time by Mr. 

 Du Buisson, at Breinton, two years later. It is generally taken, when capture does 

 occur, on the south coast, and I believe some people hold the theory that it is 

 blown across from France, and is not properly a British species, probably because 

 of its foreign appearance. Now that it has occurred twice in Herefordshire, I 

 think that theory— to use a vulgar expression — may be "blowed," which these 

 moths certainly never were. In the box is a specimen of Eucheliw Jacdbww, 

 which closely resembles Pulchella in form and shape. Passing over a number of 

 species, including Endromis Versicolor, taken by Dr. Wood, of which you will see 

 in the box specimens of male and female, eggs, larva, and cocoon, I come to the 

 Geometroe, or thin-bodied moths, of which, out of 283, 189 have been taken in the 

 county, which is a large proportion. The genus Acidalia, the largest but one of 

 these genera, is the worst represented, 11 only having been taken out of 29. 

 Sterrha Sacraria, which occurs very rarely in this country, was taken at Grants- 

 field in this peculiar way. The cook was talking to her brother ; he saw and 

 caught it in his hands, transferred it to hers, and she brought it into the house ; 

 considering what it went through it is very little injured. It is a small, delicate 

 moth, about one inch from tip to tip, of a pale yellow colour, with a narrow, 

 indistinct pink line extending from the tip to the inner margin of the front wing. 

 My brother takes it abundantly in Natal. I have never heard it suggested that 

 they are blown here by a tornado. Mr. Pilley reports the capture of Pachycnemia 

 Hippocastanaria at Haughwood, which is remarkable, as it frequents heath, of 

 which there is so little in the county. In the genus Eupithecia, the largest genus 

 of the Oeometroe, we are particularly rich — 35 species out of the 49 having been 

 taken. Consignata — our Grantsfield speciality— of which I exhibit a pair, was 

 first taken by my mother in 1864 at the root of an apple tree, struggling with a 

 spider. It frequents orchards, and the larva feeds on af)ple blossom. My 



