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flowers for the sake of honey, as Syrphide, Eristalide, &c., 
are purely pollen-eaters, and subsist on the hard, dry, pollen 
granules, produced so abundantly by our autumnal flowers. 
I cannot avoid concluding that our microscopists have never 
examined the contents of the abdomen of a Syrphus, stuffed, 
as it often is, like a pincushion, with perfectly dry pollen. I 
fully unite with my correspondent in regretting that many 
entomologists are not microscopists,—doubtless entomologists 
should utilise the microscope more extensively; but I must 
couple my lamentation with a wail equally heartrending, that 
many microscopists are not entomologists, or we should never 
have waited until 1873 to learn a fact so very patent as that 
the flower-loving Diptera feed on pollen. Let us help one 
another, and both will receive the benefit—H. Newman. | 
S. von Sliirmer.— What to look for.—Two or three of us, 
young as collectors, take in the ‘ Entomologist,’ and it is most 
interesting, but its records are all of the past. I would 
suggest that some hints as to what to do, or what one may 
expect for the time of year, be made for the coming month, 
or rather the month of publication. I do not mean a perfect 
list, for that would be impossible, but some of the more 
common and larger insects. This would be I know a great 
boon to many.—S. v. 8. 
[I would suggest the purchase of ‘ Merrin’s Calendar,’ 
which shows what may be expected every month.—Kdward 
Newman.} 
Mrs. Newhouse.—Name of a Moth.—Mrs. Newhouse will 
be obliged if Mr. Newman will kindly name the moth, half 
of which is enclosed. 
[Euplexia lucipara. sh N ‘ewman. | 
Milliére’s Work.—\1 bought, at the late Mr. Henry 
Doubleday’s sale, Milliére’s ‘ Iconographie et Description de 
Lepidoptéres et Chenilles Inedits.’ Nos, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 
32, 33, and 34, are missing. If any of Mr. Doubleday’ s 
friends have these numbers, and do not want them, will they 
communicate with me ?—[ Rev.|] H. Harpur Crewe; Drayton- 
Beauchamp Rectory, Tring, October 7, 1875. 
West London Entomological Society—The Third Annual 
Exhibition of the above Society will take place in the 
