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method by which I could rid our fireside of a small ant or 

 pismire with which we are iufested ? We first noticed them 

 about three weeks since, when 1 had some pupae of Acherontia 

 Atropos in wet moss by the fire. We cannot account for their 

 coming in any other way than among the moss, which I neg- 

 lected to dry. — J. C. Brentano ; Hull, December 13, 1869. 



[I must decline to give advice : the various remedies pro- 

 posed to exterminate Myrmica domestica have, I believe, 

 always been found unavailing, however strongly recom- 

 mended. — E. Newman.] 



Captures near Newcastle-on-Tyne. — The following are a 

 iew of my captures during the past season within a circuit of 

 twenty miles: — Sesia Bembeciformis, plentiful, larvae nume- 

 rous in old poplars near the town. C. Porcellus and M. Stel- 

 latarum, larvae on bed-straw on the coast. H. Sylvinus and 

 C. Villica, numerous. M. Tristata, plentiful near Hexham. 

 C. Munitata, took four within a hundred yards of the coast, 

 last year took sixteen at the same spot. L. Littoralis, five or 

 six on the coast. X. Polyodon, several of the dark variety, 

 almost black with markings nearly imperceptible — indeed all 

 degrees of colour. from light bone-colour to nearly black. 

 C. Graminis, plentiful. C. Valligera, Tritici, Cursoria, very 

 numerous. A. Obelisca, about twenty. A. Aquilina, three or 

 four. T. Subsequa, one specimen (named for me by Mr. 

 J. P. Barrett, of Peckham). C. Xerampelina, found one larva 

 on lichen growing on a large ash-tree, on the 10th of May; in 

 about ten days it spun up, and made its appearance on the 

 26th of July. Crambus Warringtonellus, three or four on the 

 coast in July. Entomologists, especially Lepidopterists, are 

 increasing in this part of the country. — N. Maling ; 15, aS*^. 

 Marys Terrace^ Jesmond Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 



The Goat-moth. — Entomologists are invited to inspect a 

 complete series of the goat-moth, in all its stages, prepared 

 purposely to illustrate my paper on that insect in No. 71 of 

 the ' Entomologist.' Similar series are in course of prepa- 

 ration by Mr. R. L. Davis, of Waltham Cross. — E, N. 



Postal Change. — James Murton's Address is now "Silver- 

 dale, near Carnforth^' instead of " Silverdale, near Lan- 

 caster.'' 



