THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
H. A. — “Divisions of the Country:” 
see our Leader next week. 
W. W. — Your larvae are Coleophora 
Lineotea, though rather large for the 
time of year. 
A. 0. — Your eggs are those of spiders ; 
the larva is that of Triphcena pronuba. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
The Larva of Sphinx Convolvuli . — On 
the 5th inst. I had brought me, for ex- 
amination, by Mr. Pearce, of this town, 
a larva preserved in spirits, which had 
been captured in Penzance, at about the 
same period I found my supposed larva 
of Sphinx Convolvuli. It is of the same 
species as those I captured, and which I 
doubt not to be that of Sphinx Con- 
volvuli. It had been previously seen, 
whilst alive, by R. Q. Couch, Esq., but 
he could not identify the species, and 
directed its possessor to bring it to me, 
which unfortunately he did not do ; hence 
it died, from ignorance on the part of 
Mr. Pearce of the nature of its food. 
But, to end all disputes on the questiou, 
he has offered to place it in my hands, to 
be subjected to the examination of your- 
self, Mr. Newman, or any other com- 
petent entomologist. — W. H. Hayward, 
31, Chapel Street , Penzance ; Nov. 7. 
Anthocelis llujina. — In a note, re- 
ceived a few days ago, from my friend 
Mr. Gervase F. Mathews, he mentions 
having noticed in the males of A. Lunosa 
and Pistacina those same appendages 
that were observed on A. Rufina at 
York (Intel. No. 159, p. 21) ; but he says 
they only occurred “ when the specimens 
were fresh.” Mr. Allis’s suggestion that 
they may be peculiar to the males may, 
therefore, not be so far wrong. At all 
events we have three of the genus Antho- 
celis displaying these processes, and the 
fourth ( Lilura ) may be similarly pro- 
vided. But then comes the question, 
What can be the object of such peculiar 
formations ? It is impossible even to con- 
jecture. It would seem, however, that 
the object, whatever it may be, is speedily 
answered, and that they are as speedily 
shed when no longer needed. — Peter 
Inchbald, S tor thes Hall, Huddersfield ; 
November 8. 
Camptogramma Fluviala. — I looked 
this year repeatedly in the locality where 
I took this species last year, but could 
not get a specimen till the 5th of August, 
when I took a worn female at a gas 
lamp : she laid a lot of eggs in the pill- 
box in the course of the night; they 
hatched in six days. I tried them with 
groundsel, chickweed, plantain and Per- 
sicaria all at once, but the Persicaria was 
evidently the favourite, so I continued to 
feed them upon that alone, and they 
throve on it wonderfully. At the end of 
fourteen days from their exclusion from 
the egg they began to spin up, and in nine 
days more to come out, the last appearing 
on September 7th ; so that the majority 
passed through the whole of their meta- 
morphoses, from the laying of the eggs 
to the appearance of the perfect insects, 
in a month. If the broods regularly 
succeed each other with as much rapidity 
as this, it is no wonder that the insect is 
taken in every month of the year, except 
during the winter; the wonder is that so 
few specimens are taken. I can confirm 
the description given by Talpa (Intel, iv, 
188) : nothing could well be more exact; 
there were, however, only two or three 
specimens of the yellowish variety of the 
larva. Of the specimens bred the sexes 
were nearly equal in number. Since 
then I have had the good fortune to take 
four more specimens at light, and to my 
great surprise saw a female on my sugar 
at Wickham, when sugaring for the 
autumn Nocluas ; it, however, dashed at 
my light and disappeared. I may men- 
