814 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



accoimts of this phenomenon will please accept this as the 

 only explanation I am able to give. 



Name of hisect. — Can you kindly name the enclosed ? 

 They were found at Cairo running very quickly on the sand 

 about a foot at a time, stopping very suddenly and resting 

 pressed closely to the sand, being very difficult to see when 

 in that position, owing to their similarity in colour to the 

 sand. One, as you will see, was brought home dry ; the 

 other in carbolic acid ; the latter is much swollen. — H. 

 Jenner-Fust ; Hill Courts Berkley, May 11, 1871. 



The generic name of the insect is Eremiaphila, but 

 I am uncertain of the species : they are figured in the 

 great French work on Egypt, pi. 2, figs. 5, 6 and 6a. A 

 very full description of these strange desert insects is given 

 by Lefebvre in the French annals ; and the paper (one of the 

 most interesting entomological memoirs I have ever read) 

 is admirably translated at p. QQ of vol. iv. of the ' Entomolo- 

 gical Magazine,' published in July, 1836. I intend trans- 

 ferring a portion of this paper to the ' Entomologist,' 

 whenever space can be afforded. 



Otiorhynchus sulcatus and Peach Trees. — The insects, 

 described as so injurious to peach trees in orchard-houses, are 

 weevils of the genus Otiorhynchus and species sulcatus : 

 they feed almost exclusively by night, gnawing off the bark 

 from the tender shoots and, of course, killing them. I have 

 known them to be got rid of by hand-picking with candle and 

 lantern ; but I know of no application that will have the same 

 effect. 



Eriogaster lanestris. — The downy mass of eggs sent by 

 Mr. Horley, of Hoddesdon, is deposited by the female of the 

 small Eggar moth (Eriogaster lanestris) ; the eggs are arranged 

 in a somevvhat spiral whorl, which passes obliquely round 

 and round the hawthorn twig, and is covered by long, soft, 

 silky hairs or scales from the body of the parent : the male 

 has no such provision. The young larvae live for a while 

 in company under a tent or web spun by their united 

 exertions, devouring the leaves which they thus enclose; 

 but*after a time feed singly and exposed. 



Variety of Arctia Mendica. — I obtained last May a 

 moth which, at first sight, I supposed was Arctia Urticae, 

 but, on closer examination, appeared to be only a variety of 



