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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Trachea Piniperda. Julyl4(!). By 
ditto, at sugar. 
Lithosia Helveola (several). July 25 
till August 11. 
Epunda Viminalis. July 30; bred. 
Agrotis Agathina (1). September 1. 
Ellopia Fasciaria. September 4 (!) ; a 
fine female, drying her wings ou the 
bole of a tree. 
Cirrcedia Xerampelina (several). Sep- 
tember 8 to end of month, at light. 
Luperina Cespitis (2). September 12, 
at light. 
For the last four or six weeks sugar 
seems to have been utterly useless. None 
of the autumnal moths have yet put in 
an appearance, or but solitary individuals 
— for example : — 
Scopelosoraa Satellitia (1), 
Anthocelis Rufina (1), 
Xanthia Ferruginea (1), 
... Silago (3 or 4), 
Miselia Oxyacanthae (2), 
but none of these at sugar; the latter I 
beat out of birch in the day time. O. Lola , 
O. Macilenla, A. Pistacina, A. Litura, 
C. Vaccinii, C. Spadicea, X. Cerago, 
A. Aprilina, P. Meticulosa (in profusion 
last year), C. Vetusta and C. Exolela 
have all failed as yet to put in an ap- 
pearance, though diligently looked after. 
O. Lota and A. Rufina have appeared 
in my breeding-cage some time ago. — 
J. Bibks, York ; October 8. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Food of the Larva of Sphinx Liguslri. 
— In No. 208 of the ‘Intelligencer’ a 
correspondent slated that he “ was not 
aware that the larva of this insect fed 
on any other trees than the lilac, 
mountain ash and the privet hedge,” till 
he found it on the common holly tree. 
Perhaps it may be interesting to him to 
know that I have found the larva feeding 
on the guelder rose ( Viburnum opulus ) ; 
italso feeds on thelaurusliuus (F. Tinus), 
and, as I have heard, is often found by 
the hop-pickers feediug on the hop. — 
E. S. Dewick, Blaclihealh ; Oct. 8. 
Larvae of Epione Vespertaria. — The 
larvae mentioned ( ante No. 193, vol. viii. 
p.82) produced, as I anticipated, E. Ves- 
pertaria. The first (male) imago emerged 
on the 15th of August, and a succession 
of males and females (the latter, though 
rarely captured at large, preponderating) 
continued to appear until the beginning 
of September. This is about a month 
later than the period of their appearance 
at large last year. Very few have this 
year been taken, though their usual 
haunt was industriously searched. “ With 
no protuberances” is scarcely correct as 
to this larva; there is an enlargement of 
the fifth or sixth segment, the segments 
anterior to which are of less diameter 
than those posterior to the enlargement. 
This gives the larvae somewhat the ap- 
pearance of having a long neck; the 
enlargement is rendered more prominent 
by having on it two conspicuous black 
spots, one on each side. In colour the larvae 
vary somewhat when full grown, some 
being nearly black, whilst others are of a 
purplish grey, beautifully marbled or 
mottled at the sides, a paler chain-like 
mark running along the back. When 
disturbed the larva drops suddenly, and 
lies motionless, as though dead, coiled 
up, somewhat in the shape of a fish-hook. 
The plant upon which the larvae was 
found ;and fed up, it would have been 
more accurate to have called dwarf willow 
than dwarf sallow ; I am not sure, though 
I believe it is called the the tea-leaved 
willow ( Salix phylicafolia). — J. Bikks, 
York ; October 8. 
Cheimatobia Boreata. — In a week or 
two this insect will be out of pupa, and 
it may be of use to some of the readers 
of the 1 Intelligencer ’ to know that this 
insect does not frequent the birch ex- 
clusively, as it is commonly supposed to 
