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6th, all at the same ivy bush on a garden wall. Miss C. L. Pole 

 Carew, who was with me at the time, took a specimen four or five 

 years ago flying in the garden ; but not being aware of the value 

 of the insect at the time did not keep a note of the exact date. I 

 may add that not being far from Plymouth I submitted the speci- 

 mens to Mr. G. C. Bignell, who has no doubt of their identity. 

 I was at Antony till October 20th, and searched the ivy nearly 

 every night, but did not see any more. — Waldegrave ; 13, Mon- 

 tagu Place, Montagu Square, W., October 27, 1884. 



Laphygma exigua in Lancashire. — On the 10th of Sep- 

 tember, while in the Reform Club, Preston, I noticed a moth 

 come into the room with a jerking flight, which for the moment I 

 took to be Stenopteryx hybridalis. It shortly afterwards flew to a 

 gas-light and dropped on to a table beside me. For a time I was 

 somewhat puzzled, for though like Caradrina cubicularis its 

 narrow wings and peculiar markings denoted some other species. 

 It was off in a moment and disappeared, when I at once 

 recollected that it was this rare species, having four specimens 

 in my cabinet with which to refresh my memory. — J. B. 

 Hodgkinson ; 15, Spring Bank, Preston, November 1, 1884. 



Laphygma frugiperpa. — It is noteworthy to remark, that 

 while the verj' rare L. exigua is turning up in all directions in 

 England, the closely allied L. frugiperda, Guenee, is proving an 

 injurious insect in the United States. In the last Circular 

 (No. 116) of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, S. A. 

 Forbes, the State Entomologist, writing from Normal, Illinois, 

 under date October 14th, 1884, gives a four-page history of this 

 pest, illustrated by a woodcut, with details of its larva. He 

 writes: — "The winter wheat fields of Tazewell, Mason, and 

 Fulton counties, and probably of adjacent territory, have lately 

 been devastated by a caterpillar which has been very generally 



mistaken for the true army worm The damage already 



inflicted is very considerable, many hundreds of acres of winter 

 wheat having been completely devoured in those counties, and 

 subsequently resowed ; but the loss impending is much more 

 serious, since another brood of the caterpillars is likely soon to 

 appear, making its attack upon the wheat at a period too late to 

 allow replanting." Then follow remarks on its previous history 

 (it has been known as an enemy of agriculture since 1845, when 



