Insects. 3185 



Gracilaria ocnerostomella. May and June ; on Echium vulgare. 

 Coriscium sulphurellum. By beating, September, rare. 

 Cosmopteryx Pinicolella. Scotch firs, July. 

 Elachista gibbiferella. Birches, June. 

 „ trapeziella. June, (Zool. 2894). 



„ occultella. Flying, (Zool. 2806). 



„ ochreella. Flying, May. 



Bucculatrix Demaryella. June. 

 Nepticula quinquella. Trunks of oaks, June. 



„ Septembrella. September. 

 Lithocolletis Faginella. Trunks of beeches, May. 



„ Emberizipennella. Honeysuckles, May. 



In the sand-pits at Shirley, when 1 collected Coleoptera, 1 used to 

 find many species, some in great abundance ; the wood also produces 

 many beetles, but from the absence of old trees, timber-feeding ones 

 are scarce. J. W. Douglas. 



2, Eton Grove, Lee, Kent, June 5, 1851. 



Description of the Larva of Limenitis Sibilla. — Believing the larva of Limenitis 

 Sibilla to have been very rarely taken and almost unknown to entomologists, I beg to 

 subjoin the following description of it, having taken seven on the honeysuckle in Black 

 Park, on the 15th of June last. Length, 1 inch : colour, pea-green, darkest on the 

 back, two lines on the side, one greenish white, the other brown : on the back there 

 are eighteen spines, the first six being largest, about one line to the eighth of an inch 

 long, and dark brown, the next eight are smaller and lighter in colour, the four last 

 are the colour of the first, but rather shorter ; each spine is studded with many small 

 points : on each side of each segment there is a bunch of short yellowish spines or 

 bristles : head brown and covered with short white spines or tubercles. The chrysalis 

 is angular, of a dark olive-green colour, with two horns and eight silver dots on the 

 head, and a brown hatchet-shaped protuberance on the back of the abdomen, with a 

 bright silver stripe on each side ; back of the abdomen light green, with two silver dots 

 near the tail, and three in front : suspended by the tail. The first butterfly emerged 

 on the 2nd of July. — John Hunter ; 24, Bloomsbury Street, July 9, 1851. 



Note on Trycheris mediana.— This insect is to be met with in considerable abun- 

 dance in a small wood on the Blythswood estate, adjoining this place. It sits upon 

 the leaves and flowers of the hemlock, on which plant the larvae probably feed. The 

 best time for taking it is at mid-day, although a few stragglers may be fouud until late 

 in the afternoon. I have met with a variety without the double spot, and the two 

 single ones merely indicated by small dots. — Angus Campbell; Renfrew, July 8, 1851. 



Note on the Scarcity of Wasps. — I have to repeat the observation I made to you 

 last month (Zool. 3164), respecting the scarcity of wasps; it is very remarkable still. 

 Probably some of your readers may notice if it be so in other neighbourhoods as well 

 as this. This year I have not seen a single hornet in this locality up to this day, so 

 that it appears likely we shall have few of them also. The cold ungenial weather is 

 unfavourable to all the insect tribe, and there is every indication of a wet cold sum- 

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