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not breed the Aphilothrix, although he once met with the 
larva; Giraud being the first to describe the perfect insect, 
and he only had two galls, out of some thirty or forty, which 
produced the proper gall-maker, the others being infested 
with Synergi, of which Dr. Mayr gives two species as 
inhabiting these galls, viz. S. nervosus and S. vulgaris; 
Ratzeburg says Siphonura brevicauda, Nees, was bred from 
them by Hartig. I found one specimen of this very remark- 
able gall last July (1874) at Rayleigh, but failed to meet with 
others. See Ent. Mo. Mag. xi. 110.—E. A. Fitch. 
A Month’s Entomologising in North Kent. 
By W. H. TuGwe tt, Esq. 
A MONTH in the country! This may seem a small matter 
to many of my favoured “ brothers of the green-gauze net;” 
but to a pent-up Londoner it is a weighty and anxious 
question to settle, where he will fix his tent for his annual 
campaign; and, having in successive years tried the New 
Forest, Isle of Wight, Devonshire, Dorset, and Sussex, this 
July, 1875, I determined to try my own county,-viz. North 
Kent, and endeavour to get a new series of Apatura Iris, 
which lordly species I had not taken since 1858; so having 
secured some comfortable rooms at a farm-house, in a very 
wooded district between the Thames and Medway, on July 
6th I arrived at my intended hunting-grouuds. A few miles 
walk across country, on a hot July morning, had prepared an 
appetite for an inside-lining of sandwich and the juice of the 
grape. I sat down on a gate at the entrance of a wood 
to discuss these animal necessities, and complete for the 
nonce my mundane happiness by a pipe—when, lo! sailing 
grandly overhead came his imperial majesty, displaying 
proudly, it would seem, his newly-acquired purple robes, and 
settled a few feet above my head on the outer branches of a 
young ash. I could only sit and contemplate his imperial 
majesty, and enjoy the sight of his rare beauty as he sat on 
his leafy throne, as at the moment I was quite unprepared to 
invade his sylvan retreat, having only a very short-handled 
net at hand. During my stay, however, I had the pleasure 
of taking fourteen,—-seven males and seven females. The 
