Both gentlemen also were immediately aware of the great dissimilarity of the insect to any other with which they were acquainted, though they knew not what to make of it.

Under these circumstances, therefore, I cannot withhold my own belief of the fact, that the individual specimen of Aig.

Aphrodite now before me, was actually taken at Ufton Wood, as above stated.

But next comes the question of importation ; in answer to which it is sufficient to state that Ufton Wood is situated in a thinly -populated part of the country, remote from any port or large mercantile town, a spot, therefore, extremely unlikely to have been the depository of an insect accidentally trans- mitted from abroad among articles of foreign produce.

Lastly, as Arg.