THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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CAPTURES. 
Lepidopteea. 
Colias Edusa. — Yesterday I captured 
a very fine female specimen of C. Edusa 
on an old overhanging stone in a hedge, 
at Torpoint, in Cornwall. As I thought 
it might prove interesting to yonr readers 
I have made it known, more especially 
as the species was very scarce here last 
season. — R. P. Harvie, 8, Keppel Street, 
Stoke , Devon ; Feb. 25. 
Lithosia Caniola. — Mr. Doubleday an- 
nounces, in the ‘Zoologist’ for March, 
the occurrence of bad specimens of lire 
L. Caniola of Hiibner in Devonshire 
and Ireland. Probably other species of 
Lithosia yet remain undetected in our 
less-explored districts. — H. T. Stainton; 
March 4. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Cidaria Reticularia, the new Geometra. 
— Iu the pages of the ‘Zoologist’ the 
above new species is announced as having 
been captured so long back as 1856. It 
may be interesting to some of your 
readers to know why it has not been 
noted before. Its history should be a 
lessou for every one to look and judge 
for themselves, without taking everything 
for gospel that any one pronounces. In 
j 1856 my friend T. H. Allis and I met, 
as we occasionally do, to chat and hunt 
in the Lake District; and whilst we were 
thrashing the bushes and shrubs he cap- 
tured a specimen of Reticularia. He 
comes to me, “What is this?” “Oh! 
it must be Silacearia, second brood,” I 
i remarked, “ Mr. H. Doubleday once bred 
some.” However, we did not let that 
prevent us doing a little more business 
with the presumed pretty Silacearia. 
I took what I could, and distributed 
them (as also did my friend Mr. Allis) 
for the “ second brood of Silacearia ” to 
the first-class cabinets; and there they 
have been stuck among Silacearia until 
this present year. When Mr. Allis saw 
Mr. Doubleday’s, he at once saw that 
our specimens were distinct. No doubt 
it is an agreeable notification to those we 
sent them to that they possess a species 
new to Britain. I may add that I have 
been to the same locality since, but did 
not see any other specimens. — J. B. 
Hodgkins on, Penwortham Mill, near 
Preston ; Feb. 27. 
Habit of the Larva of Laverna De- 
cor ella . — In the first part of the Stettin 
‘ Eutom. Zeitung’ for this year (1861) 
are some more extracts from the note- 
book of Senator Von Heyden, of Frank- 
fort-on-the-Maine. Amongst them, at 
p. 37, I find a notice of Mompha 
Divisella, which I believe to be identical 
with our Laverna Decorella, and it may 
be useful in enabling us to collect the 
larva of that species, which I erroneously 
reported last year to have been bred from 
Lythrum salicaria. “ The larva,” writes 
Von Heyden, “lives in a more or less 
rounded, gall-like swelling, of the size of 
a pea, on the stem of Epilobium alpinum, 
generally at the base of a leaf-stalk. 
There are often several galls on one 
stem. The larva changes in a lougish, 
whitish cocoon, within the very confined 
space of the gall; at the upper side of 
the gall some white web protrudes in a 
tubular form through a small hole, and 
out of this the perfect insect escapes. A 
gall found iu the middle of October 
produced a moth the following day.” — 
H. T. Stainton ; March 4. 
Nepticula Aurelia bred from Agrimonia 
Eupaloria . — “ Nepticulophilus ” will be 
glad to hear that Aurelia has been bred 
from Agrimonia Eupaloria : a specimen 
appeared this morning from larvae I re- 
ceived from Mr. Healy, on the 21st of 
October last. Thus at least three species 
of Nepticula occur on the Agrimonia, 
