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locust have been caught here this season. — George Fitt ; Yarmouth, October 

 7th, 1846. 



Occurrence of the Locust in Glamorganshire. — I have just received a locust from 

 Nash Lighthouse, in Glamorganshire. I saw another of the same species at Hyde Park 

 Lodge, caught in the garden by the lodge : several specimens of the same Were ex- 

 hibited at the last meeting of the Entomological Society, and were said to have been 

 captured in various parts of England. The species is undetermined, but it is 

 certainly not L. Christii. — W. F. Evans ; Admiralty, Whitehall, October 8th, 1846. 



Occurrence of the Locust in Norfolk. — The locusts have been taken in several 

 places in Norfolk during the last month (September), and they appear to have been 

 mostly found in pairs. I have a very fine specimen. — Charles Muskett ; Norwich, 

 October 9th, 1846. 



Occurrence of the Locust at- Pegwell Bag. — Mr. Charles Huxley captured a speci- 

 men of the locust at Pegwell, in the Isle of Thanet, on the 5th of October ; he found 

 it amongst grass. — Henry Longleg ; 1 , Eaton Place, Park Street, Grosvenor Square, 

 October Vlth, 1846. 



Capture of the Locust at Hammersmith. — I have had within the last fortnight two 

 specimens of this insect brought me alive, both taken a short distance from my own re- 

 sidence ; there is another now alive in the possession of the lodge-keeper at Hyde Park 

 Corner, that was found in the park. I have been informed by a friend, who has just 

 returned from Margate, that it has been very abundant along that part of the coast of 

 Kent. I also hear it has occurred in some plenty on the Norfolk coast, near Cromer. 

 — S. Stevens ; King Street, Covent Garden, October \3th, 1846. 



Occurrence of the Locust at Duxford and Fulborne. — A specimen of the locust has 

 been taken at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, in a potato-field, and a second at Fulborne, 

 in a clover-field. — Frederick Bond; Kingsbury, Middlesex, Oct. 12th, 1846. 



Occurrence of the Locust in Scotland. — An anonymous notice in a newspaper, 

 stated that locusts had been seen in Sutherlandshire, still further north. But without 

 further information, no great reliance can be placed upon the statement. — G. Gordon; 

 Birnie, Elgin, N.B. 



Hops and Hop-flies. — Your correspondent, Mr. Walker, in his note on the Aphis of 

 the Hop, in the ' Zoologist ' for the current month (Zool. 1461), mentions having an- 

 nounced his attention of publishing descriptions of the British Aphides, with reference 

 to the injuries which they cause to agriculturists and gardeners, and he takes that op- 

 portunity of requesting information thereon. Mr. Walker recommends that "the 

 ground for the hop plantation should be changed every year, the new site being as far 

 removed as possible from the old." It is unnecessary to occupy space in the 

 * Zoologist ' with any account of the mode of culture of the hop, to show the impractica- 

 bility of carrying out Mr. Walker's recommendation, it will be enough that his atten- 

 tion is directed to the subject before he publishes his recommendations for diminishing 

 the numbers of Aphides and preventing their ravages. As to the further suggestion, 

 that " perhaps it will be found advantageous to have new poles every year for the sup- 

 port of the hops, and the old poles may be burned in the winter," J may be allowed to 

 observe, that if the poles were yearly subjected to the same course of pickling in a solu- 

 tion of corrosive sublimate that timber is made to undergo in seasoning under Kyan's 

 process, we might reasonably expect that the end would be answered, without incurring 

 the great expense of a fresh supply of poles every season : or, to accomplish the same 

 purpose, apparatus might be provided, in which the poles of a whole district might 



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