182 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
3. The specimens of Zygzena so kindly sent do not agree 
with Lonicere in any of the characters noticed by Mr. 
Doubleday.— Edward Newman.| 
Names of Moths.—W ould you kindly oblige me by naming 
these three little insects? One I take to be Erastria venus- 
tula, discovered by Mr. Doubleday in Epping; the bright 
pink faded very much after death. The other is, I think, 
Erastria fuscula. Both are common here, especially the first. 
I could have caught a hundred off the heath one evening 
(Tuesday, June 2nd). The other little black longhorn I cannot 
find a trace of in my books: they were flying over water in 
the forest; I took six or seven one evening.—David M. G. 
Price; West Street, Horsham, July 21, 1874. 
[Only one wing, that of Erastria fuscula, could be recog- 
nized. The rest of the insects were literally ground to 
powder. Please pack more carefully another time. The 
discovery of Erastria venustula at Horsham would be very 
interesting.—Hdward Newman. | 
The Dor-beeile (Entom. vii. 182).—With regard to my 
notes, and the editorial remarks thereon, I fear I am unable 
to offer any very satisfactory materials for judgment. First, 
respecting the specific name of the beetle | am not sure, and 
I foolishly did not secure any for identification, but on the 
first opportunity, after reading Mr. Newman’s remarks, I 
made a journey to the heaths, expecting to find some speci- 
mens, at least, of the beetles I had seen so commonly on my 
previous visit. I was, however, doomed to a most grievous 
disappointment, for not a specimen was. visible upon the 
grassy plot, where, but a comparatively short time ago, 
hundreds were lying dead and disemboweled. 1 observed a 
number of what I suppose were mouse-holes about in the 
grass, but whether they explain anything with regard to the 
—to me—mysterious disappearance of the beetles I am not 
prepared to say, neither can I assign any plausible reason for 
the mortality which had previously taken place amongst the 
Coleoptera. Many of the tunnels formed by the beetles 
were still visible, and as far as a pocket-knife was available I 
used it in digging into some of them, in the hope of finding 
one of the beetles. By this examination | obtained one dead 
specimen (which I send), but 1 am by no means certain it is 
the same species I saw working, for, if I mistake not, its 
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