In the last number of the Entomologist our late esteemed friend. Mr. B. D. Walsh, whose sudden death we most deeply deplore; calls in question the correctness of my inference regarding the occasional hybernation of the currant worm. intimating that my conclusions were based upon insufficient data. He says, “I can see no reason why a larva might not have hatched out from the egg in London, C. W., in the first week in May, 1869, spun up on Mr. Saunders' paper bag on may 30th, 1869, and the cocoon been noticed bv that gentleman for the first time, as he informs us, May 30th, 1869.