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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
absence of light as bv the presence of 
the wet. I found a few leaves of the 
Stellaria holostea mined by Dipterous 
larvae, but of Lepidopterous larva; I found 
no trace. I had the advantage of a “ con- 
stitutional,” but I bagged no game. 
Last Thursday, finding T had a spare 
morning, I determined to have another 
try for Coleophora Olivaceella, and again 
I found myself trudging along the road 
from Beckenham to West Wickham. It 
was uot a brilliant morning, but the sun 
gleamed out for about an hour; the 
thrushes sang merrily all the way, and 
but for the low altitude of the sun and 
the number of straggling summer flowers 
yet lingering in the hedges I might have 
deemed it was spring. 
Coleophora Olivaceella is, I believe, one 
of those larvae which feed till late in the 
autumn and touch but little food in the 
spring ; one’s chances of finding it ought, 
on this theory, to have been considerable ; 
we have had no cold weather sufficient to 
cause loss of appetite to a Coleophora 
larvae: of course, then, on so pleasant a 
day, my hopes of success in the search 
for this larva rose considerably. But, 
arrived at the precise spot where the larvae 
were to have been forthcoming, I found 
only a few slender mines caused by the 
young larvae of Gelechia tricolorella, and 
at length a few leaves which had been 
mined by some Coleophora larva, but 
whether Solitariella or Olivaceella I could 
not say. But this much is certain — the 
larvae which had v eaten these leaves 
before retiring to winter quarters had 
been exceedingly small, as the holes in 
the lower cuticle of the leaf were so 
minute. Now if these larvae were 
Olivaceella , and if they are hybernating 
when smaller than usual, they must have 
an extra amount of feeding to perform 
next spring, and probably therefore I 
may be more successful when next I visit 
their feeding-ground after the vernal 
equinox. — H. T. Stainton, Mountsjield, 
Lewisham; December 15. 
EXCHANGE. 
Phlogophora Empyrea. — I have some 
good duplicates of this insect, which I 
shall be glad to exchange for the fol- 
lowing species: — Nos. 48, 81. 88, 90, 
Trochilium (any except 99 and 101), 
112,115, 121, 122, 12:5, 125, 128, 131, 
134, 150, 156, 183, 194, 207, 209, 210, 
212, 218, 221, 225,228, 241—243,246 
—248, 250, 277, 280, 287,315,320, 321, 
349, 350, 377, 382, 385, 389, 391, 404— 
406, 417, 419, 433, 435, 442, 447 — 449, 
455, 475, 489, 492, 493. None but fine 
and well-set specimens will be of use to 
me. Please write before sending boxes. 
— M. S. B laker, Lewes. 
Humble Bees wanted. — I am very 
anxious to get some live Bombi between 
now and March, and would with pleasure 
give sixpence a piece for any reasonable 
number. Perhaps some of the readers 
of the ‘ Intelligencer’ may be successful 
in finding these insects. — J. Lubbock, 
1 1, Mansion House Street, I.ondon, E.C. ; 
December 14. 
A WORD ABOUT HEM1PTERA. 
Having undertaken, in conjunction with 
Mr. Scott, to describe the British species 
of Hemiptera, and it being very desirable 
to obtain recent specimens from as many 
localities as possible, 1 am induced to 
ask the collectors ofColeoptera and Lepi- 
doptera to send me any specimens which 
they may find during the winter or spring 
when they are digging for pupae round 
the roots of trees, or searching moss, dead 
leaves, tufts of grass, &e. Bugs are 
often seen by those who do not collect or 
value them, and it would be but little 
trouble to send them just as they are, in 
quills or pill-boxes, especially as at the 
dull lime of the year entomologists have 
