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have far different notes to these: just disturb them, and they 
will sometimes fly about one’s head with an angry, shrill, 
piping note; then, again, take them in your fingers, and they 
will emit quite a piteous whine; some, instead of the easy, 
comfortable drone, hum with an eager, restless note, as if they 
thought every minute ought to have ninety seconds instead 
of sixty; and all intermediate notes may be heard.—J. B. 
Bridgman (in President's Address, Norfolk and Norwich 
Naturalists’ Society). 
The Hop Weevil (Entom. ix. 134): Postscript.—My friend 
has employed about a dozen men and women, night and day, 
to hunt his hops for this destructive creature. They remove 
the soil round the. hop-stool in the day-time, and at night 
(having a light) they pick the weevils off the hop bine. This 
they have been continually doing for some time. Prior to my 
having written you on the subject, [ had advised him to try 
hand-picking by night.—£. R. Sheppard ; 13, Limes Villas, 
High Road, Lewisham, Kent, S.E., May 24, 1876. 
Entomological Pins.—I have for some time thought that 
there is need of a rearrangement of the sizes of entomological 
pins. I applied to Messrs. Tayler last year to know if they 
would make me a new size, but they declined. I think if 
you appealed to the entomological world, through the ‘ Ento- 
mologist,’ as to whether the need is universally felt, and they 
replied in the affirmative, no doubt Messrs. Tayler would 
meet their wishes. The new sizes I suggest are—one same 
length as No. 10, one between No. 10 and No. 15, one same 
length as No. 5,—all the same strength as No. 7 (or No. 15; 
I am not sure whether these two are of the same strength or 
not). This would give a graduated scale from length of 
No. 10 to length of No. 5, all the same strength; a strength 
which I think is best suited for all specimens, except some 
of the larger moths.—C. Lemesle Adams; Walford Manor, 
Shrewsbury, June 23, 1876. 
Answers to Correspondents. 
S. Bradbury.— Name of an Insect.—1 enclose you a fly 
which | found in my pupz-box. How it came there is quite 
unknown to me, as | do not think it is one of the [chneumon 
