THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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have received offers of iusects not now in 
my desiderata, iny wants having been 
supplied, to which I trust this will be a 
sufficient answer; but I hope at some 
future time to be able to assist them. 
I have received two letters, from neither 
of which am I able to make out the ad- 
dress. 1 have also received a box con- 
taining Anthrocera Lonicerce without any 
address. All parties are particularly re- 
quested to write before sending a box. — 
Thomas Staxher, Derringham Street, 
Spring Bank, Hull ; Nov. 28. 
Exchange. — I am so overrun with ap- 
plications for Phlogophora Empyrea that 
I cannot undertake to reply individually 
to one-tenth of the applicants, and trust 
that those who do not hear from me in 
any other way will accept this as an in- 
timation that either my stock is ex- 
hausted or that my wants in the species 
they offer have been supplied. It is 
rather amusing to notice how several 
parties to whom I gave the larvae of 
Porlhesia Chrysorrlicea in the spring, but 
who did not then consider it worth while 
acknowledging their receipt, have sud- 
denly found out that they were very much 
obliged, and would be “ glad of a speci- 
men of Phlogophora Empyrea” if I have 
it “ quite to spare.” I need hardly say 
that all such communications have ex- 
perienced a very rapid transit from the 
table to the waste-paper basket. — R. W. 
Weight, 4, Gloucester Terrace, Victoria 
Park Road, Hackney, N.E. ; Nov. 29. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 
TINE IN A. 
DepbessSria Umbellana. 
The egg of this species is no doubt 
laid in the spring by the hybernated 
female ; at what period the larva is 
hatched I am uncertain, but in the 
month of June the larva may be noticed 
already of a considerable size. It feeds 
on the common furze ( Ulex Europaus ) 
and the dwarf furze ( Ulex nanus ) ; 
amongst the leaves of this plant it spins 
a tolerably broad white web, of a tubular 
form, in which it lies concealed when not 
actually employed in eating. About the 
middle of July the larva is full fed, and 
it then either assumes the pupa state in 
its silken retreat or retires to the surface 
of the ground. In the month of August 
the perfect insect makes its appearance, 
and may be collected during the two 
following months, and — though more 
sparingly — again after hybernation in 
the spring. 
H. T. Sxainton. 
COUNTY LISTS. 
To the Editor of the ‘Intelligencer.' 
Sir,— -It is said by Continental ento- 
mologists that the English possess great 
partiality for British insects, and will 
not direct their attention to other Euro- 
pean species than those captured within 
their own sea-girt isles. In this there is 
much truth: be it the result of our ex- 
cessive nationality, or of our backward- 
ness to enter upon the additional re- 
searches that would be required to study 
the whole of European Entomology, I do 
not know ; but I can say that we not 
only have an ample field for researches 
when examining the single branch 
termed “ British Entomology,” but that 
we also have a great scope for action 
when only studying the characteristics 
of species indigenous to one county. 
