THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
75 
Change oe Address. — Having left 
Sheffield, my address will be, as formerly, 
— W. B. Pkyer, 2, Albert Villas, Haver- 
stock Hill, London, N.W. 
CAPTUBES. 
LePIDOI’TEEA. 
Cerura bieuspis. — I have the pleasure 
to record the capture of a fine male 
C. bieuspis, just emerged from the pupa- 
case, on the alder : no one need apply. — 
Thomas R. Pugh, 28, Berry Street, 
Preston; May 27, 1861. 
Gastropacha ilicifolia. — I have had 
several days’ pupa-hunting on the moors 
this spring, and have taken a quantity, 
principally P.fuliginosa and S. Carpini ; 
the others were at the time unknown to 
me, not having met with them before. 
On the 18th of May, on looking into the 
cage containing them, I had the pleasure 
to find a perfect specimen of G. ilici- 
folia. The strangers have since produced 
six fine specimens of P. Menyanthidis, 
the first making its appearance on the 
19th of May. — T. Meldrum, Millgate, 
Ripon. 
Peridea Trepida near York. — During 
the time I was sugaring on Saturday 
last I had the pleasure of taking a very 
fine female P. Trepida, in good condi- 
tion, flying about the branches of an oak 
tree, no doubt depositing her eggs. — 
J. H. Dossoe, East Parade, Heworth 
Road, York; May 27, 1861. 
Coleophora fuscocuprella. — On Whit- 
Monday, at Barnet, while beating the 
under-wood, I captured a specimen of 
this insect. — Henry Aeis, 9, Rawstorne 
Street, Clerkenwell, E . C. ; June 3, 1861. 
Captures near Rotherham. — On the 
27th inst., in company with Mr. W. 
Thomas, I spent a day at Maltby Wood 
(about seven miles from Rotherham). 
We took about a hundred larvae of 
Xanthia Citrago off the trunks of lime 
trees, and I was fortunate enough to 
take a couple of E. Advenaria. — W. B. 
PnYER, 2, Albert Villas, Haverstock Hill, 
London, N.W.; May 30, 1861. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Vanessa Atalanta. — I took a very lively 
pupa of this insect on the 11th of De- 
cember, 1859. — C. Campbell, 3, Vine 
Terrace, Rochdale Road, Manchester; 
June 3, 1861. 
Lasiocampa Quercus. — Seeing Mr. 
Stone’s observations on L. Quercus, and 
Mr. Tyrer’s remarks on the same, I have 
to state, in reply to both those gentle- 
men, that on Good Friday last I picked 
up a cocoon of L. Quercus, which I 
thought at first was merely an old one, 
but I found in it a living pupa, which I 
considered to be an unusual occurrence. 
I assent to Mr. Stone’s remark that it 
was owing to the wet, cold summer last 
season; it is, at all events, of rare oc- 
currence in this locality. The imago 
emerged this day, a very fine female, 
which contradicts Mr. Tyrer’s theory, 
both as regards the sex and time of 
emerging. — R. P. Harvie, 8, Keppel 
Street, Stoke, Devon ; May 26, 1861. 
Lasiocampa Quercus. — I have not met 
with the larvcB of this species, though I 
have visited the same locality several 
times, where, last year, earlier than this, 
I took them by scores. — Henry Bird, 
near Woodside Green, Great Halling- 
bury, Essex; June 3, 1861. 
Habits of Miana Larvae ? — As I never 
see any notice of the capture of these 
larvae, perhaps these few lines may inte- 
rest some of your readers, and tend to 
aid the discovery of the larvee of this 
genus, as I see by the ‘Manual’ only 
two are known. On Whit-Monday, as 
Mr. Aris, senior, and myself were sitting 
on a railway bank refreshing the inner 
man, for the want of something better to 
