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was a small one, and its course of flight lay across some 
fields of tall mowing grass, he did not think it worth while to 
follow them. At the commencement of harvest the labourers 
on the farm discovered in a hedge, which lay in the liue of 
flight of the wandering swarm, a mass of honeycomb, 
tenanted by a family of busily working bees. ‘The mass 
consisted of three combs, the centre one about eight inches 
in length, flanked by two shorter ones on either side. There 
was a fair amount of honey in the comb. It was Mr. Row- 
land’s intention to take the nest and present it to some 
museum, but unfortunately some cattle got into the field and 
destroyed it before he could carry his purpose into effect. 
The hedge in which the comb was built was in no way 
sheltered or protected.—[{Rer]. H. Hurpur Crewe ; Drayton- 
Beauchamp Rectory, Tring, October 5, 1876. 
Heliothis armiger.—Last autumn, while staying in the 
Isle of Wight, 1 found some larve feeding on the flower- 
heads of scarlet geranium. ‘There was so much variety in 
their colour that | made no attempt at delineating them. 
The markings, which were almost suppressed in the brown 
specimens, were very distinct and ornamental in the green. 
They were so numerous that I supposed them to be the larve 
of a common moth, and did not keep more than bhalf-a- 
dozen. I tried to feed them on other flowers, but they ate 
nothing but the flower-buds and petals of geranium. ‘They 
were in the act of changing to the pupa state when | left the 
place, and in the journey were injured, so that only one has 
emerged. August Ist.—It proves to be Heliothis armiger. 
The pupa was light brown, the wing cases greenish; in a few 
months it darkened in colour. ‘The shell was so thin as 
to be almost transparent.—H. M. Golding Bird; 45, Elgin 
Crescent, Kensinylon, October 13, 1876. 
Pachylylus migratorius (the true Locusl) near Wells.—I 
have often had “locusts,” so-called, sent to me; but they 
have generally proved to be the large green grasshopper 
(Acrida viridissima), or larva of the privet, or of the death's- 
head hawk-moth. But last week a specimen of the true 
locust (Pachytylus migratorius) was brought to me, found at 
Woodford, near this city, in a bean-field. The specimen is 
identical with some I have in my cabinet from Egypt and 
Australia, the wing-cases being of a speckled-brown colour, 
