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had been vacated, others which produced 
perfect insects in about three weeks, and 
a few larvEB. Two of the last have 
hibernated, and will in all probability 
shortly go into cocoon. I can now 
account for the appearance of the spe- 
cies in new hives (see Intell. No. 210). 
— Thomas Fyles, Scatter, Kirton-in- 
Lindsey ; May 13, 1861. 
Tinea Ochraceella. — The nests of For- 
mica Rufa, which abound near Rannoch, 
many of them three feet high, and eight 
or ten in circumference, were a source of 
great interest, not only as wonderful 
monuments of patient labour, but as con- 
taining that singular and local insect. 
Tinea Ochraceella. I am sorry to say 
we overthrew many nests, and entailed 
sad trouble on the industrious owners, 
before we hit upon the right method of 
capturing the moth, which, for the use 
of future visitors and for the protection 
of the unfortunate ants, I beg to say is 
to search the stems of grass around the 
nests late at night with a lantern, or 
early in the morning before the sun is 
hot, when the insect may be taken in 
the greatest profusion, whilst during the 
day a whole nest may be rooted up and 
only a solitary specimen disturbed from 
its recesses. — E. Bibo hail. (From the 
‘‘Zoologist,’ p. 7520.) 
Effects of the past Season upon Insect- 
life. — A few days ago I dug into an old 
wall, and turned out a group of cells of 
the bee Anthophora acervorum. The 
group consisted of fourteen cells, eleven 
of which we're found to contain defunct 
examples of Sitaris humeralis in an un- 
developed state. These parasites ought 
to have become fully developed and 
made their appearance the previous 
autumn, and had the season been one of 
an ordinary character they undoubtedly 
would have done so ; as it was, however, 
they appear to have been brought to the 
very point of emerging from the pupa 
state, and then to have died. Three of 
the cells contained e.vamples of the 
proper tenant, Anthophora acervorum, 
which were also found to have arrived 
just at the point of assuming the perfect 
state, and then to have perished. The 
remaining cell contained a number of 
larvae of Monodontomerus nitidus, and 
these were the only living objects in the 
whole group. Subsequent investigations 
have shown that the above is not an ex- 
ceptional case, but that such instances 
are in this neighbourhood of general 
occurrence, and that upon colonies of 
Osmia rufa, and probably of other spe- 
cies, the season has produced effects 
equally disastrous. — S. Stone, Bright- 
hampton, Witney ; May 8, 1861. 
EXCHANGE. 
Larva of Dasychira Fascelina. — During 
the past week I have supplied a number 
of gentlemen with this curious larva: 
I have still about eight dozen on hand, 
and shall be glad to hear from any one 
wanting them, and who can give me 
larvae of any of the following (as num- 
bered in the Appendix to Stainton’s 
‘ Manual ’), which are said to occur 
next month: — Nos. 128, 131, 134, 150, 
151,155,156, 157, 161, 162, 190, 195, 
197, 198, 200, 245, 316, 346, 365, 370, 
372, 394, 399, 409, 412, 421,422,424, 
426,438,470.— T. Galliers, 9, Brenton 
Street, Liverpool; May 7, 1861. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 
TINEINA. 
The Genera Coriscium and Ornix. 
In the genus Coriscihm there is at 
present but one larva with which we are 
unacquainted, that of Coriscium Sul- 
phurellum. The perfect insect occurs 
freely in the New Forest, and also at 
Scarborough : it appears late in autumn, 
