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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Oxytelus rugosus 
Lesteva bicolor 
Staphjlinus Csesarius 
Pbilonthus splendens 
... laininatus 
... reneus 
Hister slercorarius 
Epuvaea aestiva 
Meligethes rufipes 
... viridescens 
Rhizophagus bipustulatus 
Aphodius iiiquinatus 
... prodromus 
Liinoiiius cylindricus 
Cryptohypnus riparius 
Coryinbites Quevcus 
Rbinosiimis ruficollis 
... planiroslris 
Sitones hispidulus 
... Hueatus 
... sulcifroiis 
Hylurgus piiiiperda. 
— J. Chappell & W. Worthington. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Ctenonympha Davits. — Duncan gives 
Ashdown Forest, in Sussex, as a locality 
for this species. Can any one confirm 
the statement? — W F. Kieby; May \Q. 
Lasiocampa Quercus. — By Mr. Stone’s 
notice of the discovery of a pupa of this 
insect, at this time of the year, I should 
suppose he considers it an extraordinary 
event. From my own experience I can 
assure him that in the North (and, for 
anything I know, wherever it abounds), 
by t;aking the grassy banks in the .spring, 
yon may obtain plenty of the cocoons 
containing living pupEB. It also happens 
that nine out of ten of these long sleepers 
bring forth males; and, as these images 
invariably come forth a day or so before 
those which have only remained in pupae 
a few weeks, it is doubtless a provision 
in order that females should always find 
husbands ready I'or them, and haVe no 
chance of remaining in single blessed- 
ness. Among “collecting breeders” of 
this insect, whenever any of their larvae 
do not seem to grow as rapidly as the 
rest and remain feeding when the others 
have changed to pupae, they generally 
throw them away, saying, “ They will not' 
come out till next year,” which is the 
case. You may also, by stinting a larva 
in food, cause this astonishing event, and 
consign it to an imprisonment of more 
than a year, instead of one, or two, or 
three weeks. Queries. — Is it scarcity of 
food that naturally causes this? Is it 
being batched late? or. What is it? 
— R. Tyeer, Crouch End, Hornsey; 
May 20, 1861. 
Eupitliecia Indiyaria bred. — I have at 
last succeeded in breeding Eupilhecia 
Indiyaria. On the 29ch or 30th of last 
May I obtained three eggs from a female 
taken at Delemere; they hatched in a 
short time, and chose larch as their food 
from several plants put for their use: as 
they did not seem to do well on this food 
I gave them sallow, when about ten days 
old, which they seemed to enjoy, and 
the result is that on the 12th inst. a fine 
male and female came out. I believe, 
from observations made since, that their 
proper food is heath. — C. S. Gregson, 
Kendal; May '20, 1861. 
Ornix Fayivora. — In my ‘ Tineen und 
Pteropheron der Schweiz,’ I desciibed 
(p. 252) a new Ornix from caught speci- 
mens, under the erroneous name of Ornix 
Devoniella. 1 have now thirty specimens 
of this species bred from beech and horn- 
beam. The larva turns down the edge 
of the leaf, and is found in September. 
The perfect insect is easily recognised by 
the ochreous inner margin of the anterior 
wings. — Feof. I lia, y, Zurich ; May 10, 
1861. 
Neplicula Aria, H.-S. — I have re- 
ceived from Herr Hofmann, of Ratisbon, 
some specimens of the Neplicula bred 
from Sorbus Aria. It is the species 
which I formerly described under the 
