142 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
extranea has been already recorded (Entom. viii. 110).— 
Edward Newman. 
J. Jones.—Phigalia pilosaria: Does it Feed on anything 
but Oak 2?—Will you kindly tell me through the ‘ Entomolo- 
gist’ if ever the larva of P. pilosaria feeds on anything but 
oak? as I have taken two males this season—one on a gas- 
lamp in January, the other in March—and there is no oak 
growing anywhere near. 
[I know of no other food-plant, or should have mentioned 
it— Edward Newman.) 
F. H. Ward.—Lepismodes inquilinus.—In reply to your 
enquiry touching my note on this insect (Entom. viii. 120), 
the information will be most readily communicated by copy- 
ing the ortginal note, published in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1863, 
at p. 8496. It is as follows:—“ New Insect at the Friends’ 
Institute.—In our London houses two species of insects may 
be said to swarm; these are the cockroach and the cricket. 
Everyone knows an infallible cure for these pests, just as 
everyone knows an infallible cure for whooping-cough and 
lumbago; everyone recommends the cure to his afflicted 
neighbour; but every human body continues subject to the 
two complaints, and every human habitation shelters the two 
obnoxious fellow-lodgers. The third fellow-lodger, which I 
propose to call Lepismodes inquilinus, and to which I can 
give no English name, is confined, so far as my knowledge 
extends, to the building known as the Friends’ Institute, 
12, Bishopsgate Street Without. Its body is half an inch 
long, and it has antenne and tails each half an inch long, or 
rather more, so that the entire length is rather more than an 
inch and a half. Like a judicious epicure it prefers the 
dining-room to every other apartment in the house, and, like 
an experienced pilferer, its rambles are entirely nocturnal, 
concealing itself behind the wainscot by day, and wandering 
about by night in search of such provisions as sugar, crumbs, 
and other comestibles. It seems to find no very secure foot- 
ing on the varnished surface of the wainscoting, and this 
physical infirmity led to its detection, for, whilst perambulating 
the treacherous varnish, it frequently lost its hold, and was 
precipitated, headlong, into cups, saucers, sugar-basins, and 
slop-basins, and, once in, its infirmity of “poor” or non- 
prehensile feet effectually preclude its escape. ‘The various 
household utensils which 1 have mentioned are now used as 
