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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
down over its legs, in the same manner 
as when the insect is in the torpid stale 
during the winter months ; it still re- 
mains in that state, and appears none 
the worse for its nearly five months’ im- 
prisonment. As to Coleoptera, many 
have been rare, from the localities being 
under water: that famous spot for many 
species, near Sandown Castle, has been 
under water the whole of the season; the 
castle walls surrounding the moat, which 
have stood for centuries, have been 
washed down by the sea, so that the 
favourite locality for A. Pceciloides and 
others has been destroyed. On the 10th 
of the present month I took, on the sand 
hills a fine specimen of Sirex Gigas ; 
there are no timber trees near the spot. 
I must also state that the larvae of 
Peronea Hastiana is now very common 
on the sallows, many of them yet very 
young; it is time the imagos were out. 
Will they come out this season, or lay 
over? Entomology is fast spreading in 
this county : the East Kent Natural 
History Society held their meeting at 
Ashford this season; the Earl of Win- 
chelsea gave them the use of his park 
for the occasion, when I understand some 
fifty or sixty nets were in use. — H. J. 
Harding, 1 , York Street, Church Street, 
Shoreditch ; October 20. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Sophronia Emortualis. — About the 
12th of last July I took a fine female 
specimen of this insect. It has a predi- 
lection for sweets, for I took it in com- 
pany with other sugar-loving Deltoides 
and Pyralides. Mr. H. Cooke’s descrip- 
tion (Intel, vol. v. p. 123) of this new 
Deltoides, though for the fnost part cor- 
rect, was evidently made from a very in- 
different specimen, and consequently is 
imperfect in some particulars. Its colour 
is a light yellowish olive, dusted with 
numerous small black spots. A figure of 
this insect in Wood’s ‘ Index Entomolo- 
gicus (first edition, pi. 27, fig. 768) will 
give a tolerable idea of its colour, though 
of little else. The first line seems not 
to be continued on the under wing. 
There is a crescent-shaped yellowish 
marking on the under wing, about half 
way between the base and the tip of the 
wing, but it does not appear to rise on 
the costa, and it distinctly ceases before 
it reaches the middle of the wing; be- 
sides it is in a different direction to the 
line on the upper wiug, and if continued 
to the inner margin it would strike the 
second line. I have examined, by the 
aid of a common magnifying-glass, what 
seems to be “ the posterior margin of the 
reniform stigma,” of which Mr. Cooke 
speaks, but I cannot trace the rest of the 
marking of the stigma ; and there only 
appears a yellowish crescent- shaped 
marking, which corresponds exactly with 
that on the under wing. — Rev. B. H. 
Biuks, Stonor, Henley - on - Thames ; 
October 17. 
Larva of Nemotois ? — I here- 
with send you larvae of Dumerilellus P on 
Scabiosa succisa. Dr. Wocke suspects 
that the larvae of N. Cupriacellus, Pfeif- 
ferelius and Minimellus feed on that 
plant. The two first-named species have 
not yet occurred here, and N. Minimellus 
is only in one locality, but N. Du- 
merilellus is abundant on all sides of us, 
and especially in the wood where these 
larvae were collected. The cases of these 
larvae come very near to those of N. 
Violeltus, yet are rather shorter, with 
hardly perceptible indentation in the 
middle, and are of equal breadth at both 
ends, whereas, in the case of Violellus, 
one end is generally broader than the 
other. — Fbiedrich Hofmann, Ratisbon; 
October It), 1860. 
Larva in Anlhemis Tincloria. — In the 
heads of this plant we have found a 
larva which we fancy will produce C’hio- 
nodes trigutella ( Butalis Scopolelta). Iu 
