200 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
at sugar Tryphana subsequa. I am informed that this is the 
first recorded capture in Yorkshire.—W. H. Harwood. 
Dianthecia capsincola at Sugar.—On visiting my sugared ‘J 
trees on Friday last (August 20th) I was very much surprised | 
to find a fine female of Diantheecia capsincola. Is it not very 
unusual to find any of this genus at sugar?—A. Thurnall; . 
Whitilesford, Cambridgeshire, August 21, 1875. 
Catocala promissa near Ipswich.—I took a solitary Cato- 
cala promissa last night, at sugar, in good order. The insect 
has not been seen in these parts for years. I have also taken 
Lithosia quadra in two places.—C. F. Long; Borough 
Asylum, Ipswich, August 22, 1875. 
Sarrothripa Revayana.—I am now breeding Sarrothripa 
Revayana, from larve beaten from oak in the New Forest 
last month. This is a very singular insect, and it seems 
difficult to decide to what family it really belongs. Its little 
boat-shaped cocoon seems to indicate a close relationship to 
the genera Nola and Halias; but the Tortrix-like form of the 
perfect insect, combined with the method of folding its wings, 
like a Crambus when at rest, makes it quite a puzzle. The 
larva was new to me, and I did not know whether to think it 
a Bombyx or a Noctua, as it seemed to have some of the 
characters of both W. H. Harwood. 
The Plague of Locusts in America. By EpwARD NEWMAN. 
(Concluded from p. 179.) 
I WILL now turn back, and, still availing myself of Mr. 
Bethune’s admirable summary, endeavour to show that the 
locust, although so rarely heard of in England as an insect 
scourge in America, is no novelty in transatlantic regions. 
The earliest record of the visitation of locusts in America is — 
to be found in Gage’s ‘ West Indies,’ a work of which I am 
unhappily ignorant, except through the extract made by Mr. 
Bethune. The following refers to the year 1632 :— : 
“ The first year of my abiding there it pleased God to send 
one of the plagues of Egypt to that country, which was of 
locusts, which 1 had never seen till then. They were after 
the manner of our grasshoppers, but somewhat bigger, which 
did fly about in numbers so thick and infinite that they did 
truly cover the face of the sun, and hinder the shining forth 
