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Col. J. H. Bowker, of Durban, and that the larvae were found 

 alive on its receipt in England in August last. The nest was 

 placed in the insectarium in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's 

 Park, under the care of Mr. Thompson, and who was fortunate 

 in rearing some of the insects. Many of the larvas remained in 

 the nest, but others, in companies of twenty to forty, occasionally 

 marched out, moving in closely serried ranks, much after the 

 manner of the larvae of the procession moth {Cnethocampa). 

 From December to February about 250 moths emerged, but 

 from the difficulty of obtaining their natural food all died, 

 though a pair bred and the eggs were hatched. The mature 

 insect closely resembles the Ana})he panda, Boisd., though under 

 the latter it would seem are several well-marked local races. The 

 genus is found in West Africa, as well as Natal ; but it appears 

 that in the several species the colour, size, shape and material of 

 the common nest, as well as the individual silk}*- cocoons, markedly 

 differ. Doubtless the habits of these moths, when still more 

 fully known in their native haunts, will yet form a most 

 interesting chapter to the traveller. Of Anaphe four species 

 have hitherto been described, viz.: — A. venata, from Old 

 Calabar; A. ambigua, from Angola ; A. reticulata and A. panda, 

 from Natal. To these Lord Walsingham adds — A. carteri, from 

 the Gold Coast; and A. infracta, from the Cameroons. 



Importation of Ephestia passulella and E. ficulella 

 to King's Lynn. — On February 6th I was informed that numbers 

 of small moths were flying about a vessel which had just arrived 

 here from Galveston, America (Texas), with a cargo of de- 

 corticated cotton-cake. On the same day a few of the moths 

 were brought me, and at the time I thought them to be Ephestia 

 passulella ; but subsequently noticing that they varied consider- 

 ably a few of them were sent to Mr. C. G. Barrett, from whom I 

 learn that there are two species, viz., E . passulella and E. ficulella. 

 On the following da} r (the 7th) I visited the vessel, and found that 

 these moths were absolutely swarming in the hold amongst the 

 cargo. Numbers of them continually issued through the hatch- 

 ways into the open air as the cargo was being discharged. 

 Cocoons, doubtless of these species, were plentiful on the outside 

 of the bags in which the cotton cake was packed, and larvas were 

 also observed both without and within the bags. The cake has 

 been stored in warehouses about the town, and I hear that it is 



