THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 79 



Xylomiges conspicilhtris at Malvern Link. — I was much 

 gratified to find a splendid male specimen of Xylomiges con- 

 spicillaris in my breeding-cage on Friday last, which is the 

 third 1 have bred in the last three years, i.e. one every year. 

 — Thomas Goodyear ; Church Road, Malvern Link, April 20, 

 ]870. 



Collecting Lepidoptera Abroad. — I think that it would be 

 very useful to a great many Lepidopterists who may spend 

 their holiday abroad, if gentlemen who have some experience 

 in foreign collecting would give them the benefit, through 

 your valuable journal, of what they consider the best plan of 

 preserving butterflies and moths, so as to bring them home 

 as perfect, and also in as little space, as possible. To set 

 ihem out while on a journey is out of the question, as it 

 takes up more time than one can spare : there are also objec- 

 tions to pinning them as caught into a store-box lined with 

 cork, as there is a chance, however well the pins are driven 

 into the cork, that one at least of the insects would be shaken 

 out in any long journey, during which one's luggage gets 

 much knocked about, not only destroying the specimen but 

 injuring considerably the remainder of the collection. — 

 S.N.C.Jun. ' 



Economy of Stigmonota Weirana. — The reason this insect 

 flies about the beech is because that tree furnishes the food 

 of the larva. I have been acquainted with it for years past : 

 it feeds between united leaves. Its body is whitish, the 

 dorsal vessel green, and the mouth reddish brown ; the head 

 is pale brown, with the hind lobes darkish ; the back of the 

 second segment is somewhat tinted with brownish. The 

 larva is always common on the beech trees in Epping Forest : 

 in some seasons it is very abundant. It feeds during the 

 months of September and October. As the larva grows older 

 it presses other leaves into its service, fastening them together 

 by silken cords: on arriving at its adult state it either 

 descends to the ground to undergo its pupation or else spins 

 up between the leaves; in the latter case it constructs for 

 itself a white silken cocoon, to which it adds an external 

 coating of frass. Shortly after the completion of its cocoon 

 it passes into the chrysalis state : at the end of the following 

 May the imagos, which, by the way, are very easy to rear, 



