THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
83 
Change of Address. — Having left 
St. Peter’s House, Brighton, letters should 
be addressed for the present to — W. F. 
Kirby, care of Messrs. Williams Nor- 
gate, 14, Henrietta Street , Covent Garden, 
W.C. ; Dec. 10, 1860. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
F. 0. R. — Your Hepialus is probably 
Sylvinus ; get good specimens if you 
want them named. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Vanessa Io at Morpeth. — I was sur- 
prised to find V. Io so common here; 
but I think that this spring it was far 
more abundant than I have ever noticed 
it in the South. — F. O. Ruspini, Morpeth ; 
December 10. 
Hydroecia Micacea. — I take the pupae 
of this insect at the roots of the common 
dock towards the end of August ; perhaps 
it would be more generally distributed 
if entomologists would look there for 
them. — Ibid. 
Epunda Lichenea. — I think I am 
under an obligation to reply to Mr. 
Merrin’s letter in the ‘ Intelligencer’ of 
the 8th inst., and, considering the ‘In- 
telligencer’ the legitimate channel for 
free intercourse between entomologists, I 
hope you will receive this as an apology 
for thus thrusting myself on your notice. 
Now, although I acknowledge the supe- 
rior experience of Messrs. Reading and 
Brockholes, yet I must say, in respect of 
their having taken the larva ol Lichenea 
in July, that if such is the case it is au 
exception; for, generally speaking, to go 
searching for the larva from June to 
July, must be quite a forlorn hope, as 
from the middle of April to the middle 
of May is the proper time to take them 
full fed. During the last three or four 
years I have taken them in all sizes from 
February to May, anti in all my memo- 
randa of my captures in June I find 
I have never once entered the capture of 
E. Lichenea larvae; and, as regards their 
food, I can freely say that of all the low 
plants mentioned they give the pre- 
ference to groundsel and dock. With 
respect to the statement of Mr. Brock- 
holes, that the larvae are “ to be taken in 
warm weather in February,” &c., I would 
remark that I have taken them when 
small quite exposed on the tops of grass, 
on a sharp frosty night in February. — 
J. S. Dell, Morice Town, Devon; 
December 10. 
Euplexia Lucipara. — I do not know 
whether this insect is now much thought 
of, but I think that the real place to find 
the pupae is beneath the moss which 
carpets the ground in woods. Mr. 
Mathews speaks of having taken them 
beneath elm roots, but I suspect it was 
only by accident they came there, since 
the larvae feed on low plants. — F. O. 
Ruspini, Morpeth ; December 10. 
EXCHANGE. 
Exchange. — X have good specimens of 
the following, for which I shall be glad 
to receive offers: — 
E. Blandina, E. Plantaginis, 
M. Artemis, H. Arbuti, 
P. Alsus, F. Piniaria, 
Agestis, A. Ulmaria. 
A. Filipendulse, 
— James T. J. Hind, Croxdale, near 
Durham; December 6. 
Abraxas Pantaria. — Will your worthy 
correspondent “ J. R. H.,’ who gave us 
such interesting information respecting 
the larva of A. pantaria (No. 217, p. 53), 
kindly put me in the way of obtaining a 
few ova or pupae of this insect? If 1 can 
in any way return the kindness I shall be 
