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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
Insect Notes rrom WILTSHIRE. 
As every locality has its own characteristic flora, so we also 
find the fauna differing in regard to species and their relative 
numbers in every county in the United Kingdom. The following 
notes, with regard to those insects which attack forest trees either 
annually or at irregular periods, may therefore be of interest for 
purposes of comparison with other districts. 
Amongst moths, the most common is Zortrix viridana (Oak- 
leaf Roller Moth), which is a constant visitor in oak woods every 
summer. In 1894 the attack was particularly severe, but this year 
comparatively little damage was done. The heavy crop of beech 
seedlings this season was severely thinned by the caterpillar of a 
small moth, Tinea parenthesella, which eats the cotyledons, and 
in shady spots weakens the seedlings toa fatal extent. Colcophora 
laricella is also common on the larch, but with warm, genial 
springs does little damage. Two years ago considerable damage 
was done to the Scots pine in several young plantations by the 
larvee of Tortriz turionana destroying the terminal buds of the 
leading shoots. During the present season I saw no traces of 
this moth or its work, so that the damage is gradually being 
obliterated. I have also noticed 7’. comitana on spruce needles, 
but not to any serious extent. 
Coming to beetles, the most injurious here, as elsewhere, is the 
Pine Beetle (Hylurgus piniperda). In addition to the Scots 
pine, I have found it breeding in larch and Weymouth pine. 
It appears to have a double generation here, as is the case farther 
north. Amongst other Bostrichide may be mentioned Hylesinus 
Sraxint and crenatus, Hylastes palliatus (on larch, spruce, and 
Scots pine), Scolytus destructor and multistriatus (on elm), S. 
intricatus (on oak), S. carpine (on beech), Bostrichus bidens (on 
Scots pine), B. piceae (on silver fir), B. villosus (on oak), B. 
Lichtensteint (on Austrian pine), 4. domesticus (on felled elm, 
oak, etc.). Of these, B. bedens, H. palliatus, S. destructor, and 
