Peaches perforated & sucked by moths.²—  Have any of your readers seen moths or butterflies sucking peaches, plums or other fruit, of which the skin was not broken?

A well-known entomologist, M^r Roland Trimen, writes to me from the Cape of Good Hope, that a moth, the [Achaea chamaeleon], has lately swarmed in the province of Natal;³ & after advancing some indirect evidence that moths are capable of perforating with their delicate proboses the skin of the peach, he sends me the following extract, together with a sketch of a perforated peach, from a letter written to him by an accomplished lady & botanist.⁴