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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
with, excepting one caught by ray brother, 
which does not appear to be Epunda 
Lululenta, but if not that insect is pro- 
bably new. The Geometrae were 
Cidaria Testata (everywhere), 
... Tmmanata, 
Larentia Salicaria, 
An uudetermimed Eupithecia, 
Ypsipetes Elutata, 
Epione Apiciaria. 
A good many Tortrices were found, mostly 
common species, but some (yet unde- 
termined) may require further notice, and 
the Micros are in the same plight, espe- 
cially a Gracilaria, which I should be 
very willing to believe Stramineella , and 
a Plerophorus, which does not appear 
exactly to correspond with Acantliodac- 
tylus. I have omitted the best capture 
which I made — Phibalapteryx Lupidata 
(three females), which have laid me some 
eggs. — W. D. Crotch, Uphill House , 
Weston-super-Mare ; Oct. 18. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Erebia Cassiope. — I and my friend 
Mr. Hugh Harrison, in the middle of 
June, made the ascent to Sty Head 
Tarn; for the first time in my experience 
the weather was everything we could 
desire — calm and sunshine ; this, com- 
bined with the dry season of last year 
and the long drought for months during 
this, enabled us to collect on ground in 
other years a dangerous morass. The 
result was we captured Cassiope in abund- 
ance, some of them in superb condition, 
just emerged from the chrysalis. A very 
short time on the wing suffices to injure 
them. They vary considerably in the 
development of the black spots on the. 
fulvous patch, almost obsolete in some, 
through all gradations to the fullest de- 
velopment; the patch varies in like 
manner and also in form ; lastly, they 
vary in size. — R. S. Edleston, Man- 
chester. 
Lucanus Cervus hybernating. — On 
Wednesday last a poor man brought me 
tw o living specimens of this insect, which 
he said he had dug up out of the ground. 
They were in a semi-torpid state when 
he gave them to me, but, on being 
brought into a warm room, revived suffi- 
ciently to walk about, and made some 
stately marches across the table on 
which they were placed. From these 
facts I should suppose they would have 
slept under ground during the winter 
had they been left undisturbed, and 
would have come forth again next sum- 
mer. I should like to hear whether any 
one else has found the insect alive so 
late in the year as this. I have put 
them into a box, and they are still alive, 
although very torpid. — Thomas Lin- 
nell, Redstone Wood, near Reigate ; 
October *22. 
To kill Mites. — Mr. Wallis (Intel. No. 
157, p. 7) wishes to know how to kill 
mites. They had better be kept out, but 
a small pill-box head, well secured, and 
filled with oil of tar, and at the moment 
of closing the drawer, having a few drops 
of a strong solution of cyanide of potas- 
sium poured into it, will kill all not in 
egg or pupa ; the operation, therefore, to 
be effectual must be repeated. — W. D. 
Chotch, Uphill House, Weston-super- 
Mare ; Oct. 18. 
EXCHANGE. 
Stock exhausted. — Those who have 
not heard from me may conclude that 
my stock of advertised duplicates is 
exhausted, and I request them to take 
this as a reply. — J. F. Brockhoi.es, 
10, Cleveland St., Birkenhead ; Oct. 23. 
Address wanted. — Will the gentleman 
who sent to me for a dozen pupa) of 
Papilio Machaon please seud me his 
