THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 248.] SATUEDAY, JULY 6, 1861. [Price Id. 
OLD EECOEDS. 
There is a peculiar pleasure derivable 
from the perusal of old records, — note- 
books two hundred years old, journals 
of the last century, or the convivial 
written gossip of fifty years ago. One 
source of the pleasure thus obtained 
is no doubt the comparison of the pre- 
dictions, or the forebodings, with their 
subsequent fulfilment or failure. “The 
State must go to pieces if such things 
take place,” is a very common expres- 
sion with those who prefer the gloomy 
side ; yet, somehow or other, the State 
don’t go to pieces. 
In like manner, the naturalist derives 
intense pleasure from the investigation 
of “old records;” a lecovi, if faithful, 
is valuable for all time. 
We have been led into these re- 
marks by the consideration of a record 
by Von Tischer, which is chronicled in 
Treitscbke’s work, respecting a Depres- 
saria larva. That record had been 
overlooked and forgotten, but when 
again noticed, after a lapse of nearly 
thirty years, and again acted on, the 
result is the addition of what we be- 
lieve will prove a new species of De- 
pressaria to the European Fauna. 
In the Supplementary Volume of 
Treitschke’s work, at page 179 of the 
third part, we find a description of a 
Depressaria larva as that of D. albi- 
punetella. 
The description is as follows: — 
“ The larva is grey-green, not shining, 
with warty spots of the same colour, 
but shining. Head and thoracic shield 
black. It lives, in May, on Artemisia 
campestris, between closely united leaves. 
“ At the end of May it changes to 
a yellow-brown pupa, betw'een united 
leaves, and the imago appears at the 
beginning of June.” 
On the faith of this information, 
Duponchel assigns Artemisia campestris 
as the food of the larva of Depressaria 
albipunctella, and quotes the description 
in Treitschke. 
Now Hiibner had figured a larva as 
that of Albipunctella, placing it on an 
umbelliferous plant, and his larva has 
neither the black head nor the black 
thoracic shield mentioned by Treitschke, 
and Duponchel accordingly remarks — 
“Hiibner has given a figure of this 
same larva, which does not at all agree 
with the description of Treitschke ; but it 
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