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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
changed to the north-west, the sun was 
bright and hot, which roused all insect- 
life from the chill which had so long 
kept them motionless; Staphylinidae, 
Curculionidae, Geodephaga, &c., took 
wing, and the strong breeze which blew 
from the north-west carried them over 
the town of Deal, and, in fact, scattered 
them along the whole line of the east 
coast; myriads were no doubt carried into 
the sea, and many a Diachromus probably 
perished in the Channel, or was lost on 
the fatal Goodwin Sands; the streets of 
Deal were literally sprinkled with in- 
sects; it was, in fact, impossible to walk 
without crushing them under foot; the 
whole were brought from the country by 
the north-west wind; Diachromus had 
therefore been carried into Deal from 
some locality situated at the back of the 
town of Deal. Had an east wind pre- 
vailed and a similar shower of insects 
appeared doubtless many Continental 
rarities might have occurred. In my 
own opinion, taking all circumstances 
into consideration, Diachromus is un- 
doubtedly a British insect, an indige- 
nous species, and that it will be taken 
plentifully, like Drypta dentata and Poly- 
stichus fasciolatus, whenever its proper 
locality is once discovered. — F. Smith, 
27, Richmond Crescent, Islington. 
Hymenoptera. 
Deposition of Eggs by Worker Wasps. 
— I have had opportunities this season 
of obtaining conclusive evidence as to 
the deposition of fertile eggs by common 
working wasps: 1 have been enabled 
clearly to prove the fact, both in the 
case of Vespa vulgaris and also of Vespa 
rufa . — S. Stone, Brighthampton ; Sep- 
tember 28. 
EXCHANGE. 
Exchange . — I have fine specimens of 
Vanessa Folychloros and of Thecla 
W-album, and shall be glad to receive 
offers in exchange for them. None but 
good perfect specimens will be accept- 
able. — J. Wragg, 7, Spring Gardens, 
Doncaster ; October 1, 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 
TINEIN A. 
Nepticula. 
As the unwritten half of Volume VII. 
of the ‘ Natural History of the Tineiua 
will be occupied with the genus Nep- 
ticdla, and as October is emphatically 
the month for collecting the lame of this 
genus, we have thought it might be 
advisable to direct the attention of our 
Micro-Lepidopterous readers to this 
group. 
In the previous volume (pp. 79, 80) 
we made a calculation that in the year 
1860 the number of known species was 
sixty-nine, and of these the larvae of 
fifty-nine were already ascertained. As 
in the first volume of the ‘ Natural 
History of the Tineina’ twenty-one of 
the larvae were figured, it follows that 
thirty-eight, — nearly all of which have 
been discovered since we wrote Vol. I., — 
have yet to have their private histories 
related in that work. 
The names of these species, to which 
N. Sorbi and N. ulmivora may be added, 
swelling the number to forty, and our 
position in regard to them are given 
below. 
Of those marked “ L. fig.” we have 
figures of the larvae and their mines ; of 
those marked “ Mine fig.” we have only 
figures of the mines, but not of the larvae ; 
we have descriptions only of those larvae 
marked “ Desc.” 
1. Atricapitella. 
2. Aucupariae. 
