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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Trichius fasciatus or zonatus. — I have 
some specimens of Trichius fasciatus of 
Stephens, taken here, but whether it be 
really fasciatus or (as Mr. Douglas sug- 
gests) zonatus I do not know, as I am 
rather a Lepidopterist than Coleopterist. 
The size is seven lines from the head to 
the extremity of the body (the elytra not 
extending to the end of the body), and 
the black shoulder-spot on the elytra does 
not extend to the suture. The species is 
not very rare here, as hardly a summer 
passes without my seeing one or more 
specimens while I am Lepidoptera col- 
lecting. I have also taken it in various 
parts of the county, at distances of twenty 
or forty miles from here. — J. T. Dillwyn 
Llewelyn, Penllergare , near Swansea ; 
Sept. 25. 
Trichius fasciatus. — In reply to Mr. 
Douglas’s wish (Intel. No. I5G, p. 201), 
I can say that I have taken the species 
near Swansea : one specimen last yefir 
in Mr. Dillwyn Llewelyn’s grounds at 
Penllergare ; one specimen this ygar close 
to Glyn Neath. I do not know much 
about Coleoptera, and so will not attempt 
to decide whether the statement is correct 
that “ fasciatus occurs only in Scotland 
and zonatus in Wales,” but in the speci- 
men now before me (and I believe in the 
one I took last year) the black spot at the 
base of the elytra is not confined to the 
shoulders, and does extend to the suture. 
Heliophobus hispidus is now out at Port- 
land. — Rev. II. Adair Pickard, Weg- 
mouth s Sept. 28. 
The Ravages of a Cgnips in Monmouth- 
shire. — In the immediate neighbourhood 
of llsk the clover fields have been de- 
vastated by the larvae of a species of 
Cgnips that may truly lay claim to the 
name of Cgnips Trifolii! It would 
seem that the parent insect, one of the 
Hymenoptera, lays her egg during the 
summer in the young (lower-heads of the 
clover. The egg hatches and the young 
grub finds its food at hand. It preys 
upon the juices of the central columella, 
thus depriving the seeds of their proper 
nutriment; the seed-heads gradually 
wither and the seeds perish. Whole 
crops that have been cultivated for the 
seeds have thus failed. The Cgnips is 
black, with transparent wings, exhibiting 
the ordinary dark blotch in the middle. — 
Petek Inchbald, Storthes Hull, Hud- 
dersfield ; Sept. 27. 
EXCHANGE. 
Nonagria Crassicornis. — This has been 
abundant again this year in the Marshes; 
as the spot is doomed to be no longer a 
hunting-ground, I have taken a consider- 
able number, and shall be glad to send 
it to any entomologists in want of the 
species, on receipt of a suitable box with 
return postage, or I will pay postage one 
way if the box contain good specimens of 
N. Lucina , P. Argiolus, P. Alsus, or any 
of the following, as numbered in the 
Appendix to the ‘Manual’: — 100, 163, 
233, 258, 231, 330, 340—342, 357, 423, 
451, 504, 512, 630, (523, 637, 737, 753, 
758, 769. I find the most suitable box 
is one made of light, strong wood (alder 
or sycamore is the best), with the top and 
bottom convex, and the outside coloured 
black. Such a box requires no packing, 
— merely to be tied with a string and a 
label attached. The Post-Office officials 
tell me they cannot make a stamping- 
board of it, not even for its own label. 
By dispensing with wool, wrapper, &c., 
allows of more wood for the same postage, 
and, what is of far more importance, 
saves much valuable time. — W. H. 
Allchin, 7, Pembridge Villas, Bays- 
wuler ; October 3. 
Sphinx Convolvuli. — Having been for- 
tunate enough to take, in my garden, 
during the last lew weeks, several sped- 
