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suspicion, which, if not checked, will destroy their character as truthful repre- 

 sentatives of a British Fauna. Those who commit these frauds must see that 

 there can ultimately be but one result, viz., a union of all honest collectors, 

 for the purpose of exchanging British species, with an annual subscription 

 sufficient to cover all expenses, and a stringent rule to purchase no insects at 

 all.— Ed.] 



C. Hippothoe. — I thank you for your kind hint respecting the notice of 

 Mr. Crewe, which I beg you the favour to answer, as it was quite an omission 

 and mistake of Mr. Edward Newman. I went to his office, and showed him 

 the five old Dispars collected many years ago, by an excellent old collector 

 who is now dead; captured on Whittlesea Mere. Mr. G-arrod saw them when 

 I was in. Ipswich; I had not got them when I called on you. I know of a 

 person in the fen who reported that he took one hundred and fifty in the 

 year 1856. I believe the other insects were collected by me this year. It 

 would injure me much to let this mistake in the name go uncorrected. I see 

 Linnams called Dispar Hippothoe according to Mr. Doubleday's list. I wish 

 you to thank Mr. Crewe for his kindness. — George King, 85, Lower Union- 

 Street, Torquay. 



T. fimbria. — It seems to be the popular idea that the larva of Triphcena 

 fimbria feeds exclusively upon primrose. Now this, like most other democratic 

 opinions, is wrong. Two years since my old friend Mr. Hawker and myself 

 took at least fifty of this larva, by lantern-light in April and May. In no 

 one single instance did we find them feeding upon primrose, (though the woods 

 were full of it,) or upon any low-growing plant. They were always upon the 

 underwood, from two to four feet from the ground, and fed indiscriminately 

 upon white-thorn, black-thorn, beech, hazel, sallow, and sometimes upon dogwood. 

 In the day-time this larva conceals itself upon the ground, and no doubt 

 often selects the overshadowing leaves of the primrose, foxglove, etc., for its 

 hiding-place. I have known a specimen reared upon the latter plant; and I 

 think it most probable that it also occasionally feeds upon primrose, but cer- 

 tainly as far as my own experience goes, it prefers the undergrowth of trees 

 and shrubs. The best time for larva-hunting by lantern-light is from eight 

 to ten o'clock, p.m.; and on a fine warm evening, from the middle of April 

 to the middle of May, it is most exciting work for an Entomologist. — H. 

 Haepxje Ceewe, Stowmarket, February 13th., 1858. 



Bostrichus bispinus. — I have obtained lately above fifty specimens of both 

 sexes of this insect from the Traveller's Joy, Clematis vitalba, which I have 

 collected in this neighbourhood; so that it would appear to be abundantly 

 distributed wherever the Clematis is found. They may be detected by observ- 

 ing the stems which are pierced, and are generally found near the joints. — 

 W. C. Unwin, St. Anns, Lewes, February 11th., 1858. 



Lithosice at sugar. — I have often met with L. complanula and griseola at 

 sugar. At Darenth Wood, last July, I took about a dozen specimens of L. 

 miniata at sugar, besides several others flying. I mention this fact as there 



