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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCEK. 
Mici-o-veaders will at once understand 
the proficiency they have attained. 
The day after our arrival here we pro- 
ceeded to Hokendorf, taking with us 
Dr. Schleich, one of these Micro-Lepi- 
dopterists, and as soon as we were in the 
garden there, we at once started towards 
a little fir wood, where Artemisia cam- 
pestris and Gnaphalium arenarium grew 
in some plenty. Here we sought on 
both these plants, and soon found traces 
of a Coleophora larva on the Artemisia, 
and presently we fell in with three of the 
larvae of C. succursella — a species I had 
received from Frankfort-on-the-Main,biit 
had never before taken. The Gnaphalium 
furnished a plentiful supply of pupae of 
Bucculatrix Gnaplialiella. The larches 
overhead were tenanted by Coleophora 
Laricella, and the wild cherries were 
thickly populated with Coleophora He- 
merobiella, and I had abundant oppor- 
tunity of studying the juvenile case of 
that species, as many of the leaves bore 
the empty curved case of the young 
larva ; it has considerable resemblance to 
the case of C. Vitisella, but is more 
curved than that ; the adult case, as is 
well known, is almost perfectly straight. 
C. Hemerobiella seems very plentiful in 
this neighbourhood, aud I have noticed 
it both on quince, and hawthorn, though 
it certainly seems most plentiful on 
cherry. 
The next day several of the Stettin 
entomologists came out to Hokendorf, 
and amongst tljem the other Micro- 
Lepidopterist, a nephew of Professor 
Bering : he brought with him some cases 
of Coleophora onosmella, which he had 
met with en route. Dr. Schleich was 
again of the party, so we three Micro- 
Lepidopterists kept together, and went to 
the skirts of the beeeh forest, where, on 
Astragalus glycyphjllus, we collected, in 
some plenty, the larvee of Coleophora 
serenella. Here also we found three other 
case-bearers, though of a diflferent genus, 
which I will bring home with me, if they 
will kindly travel so far: I am told they 
are Psyche graminelia. We then tried 
the interior of the wood, as my com- 
panions were anxious to see the larva of 
Chauliodus Illigerellus, but we were un- 
able to meet with any. We wandered in 
the interior of the beech forest for some 
time, till we were quite tired of finding 
nothing, and then emerged to daylight, 
just at a dry hillock, where there was a 
considerable variety of vegetation, and 
one plant, which I did not recognise, I 
was told was Cucuhalus Otites (it will be 
remembered that this is the food-plant of 
Coleophora Otita). We then sought a 
sandy slope, where Artemisia campeslris 
and Gnaphalium arenarium grew very 
freely, and here we found several Cole- 
ophora succursella, and, to our great de- 
light, a Depressaria ? larva in the tips 
of Artemisia campestris ; we only found 
two, the younger Hering having the good 
luck to find the first : it is not yet known 
what species this larva will produce; it 
is described in Treitschke’s work as the 
larva of Depressaria alhipunctella. but we 
know the larva of alhipunctella, which is 
very different, and feeds on Umbelliferae. 
On the Gnaphalium we found plenty of 
pupae and one larva of Bucculatrix 
Gnaphaliella, and Dr. Schleich met with 
a few larvm of Coleophora Gnaphalii. 
We searched very assiduously on this 
plant, because when I was in this locality 
six years, ago I collected larvae on that 
plant, but, as I imagined, only of the 
Coleophora and Bucculatrix, but after I 
reached home, to my surprise and delight, 
I bred a specimen of Stagmalophora pom- 
posella, the larva of which I must have 
unknowingly collected. So we searched 
