THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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British Moths which gives a coloured 
figure of each species, which may be 
relied upon for correctness?” We know 
of no figures which are perfect. Wood’s 
‘Index Entomolhgicus ’ is probably the 
best. 
CAPTURES. 
Grapta C-album. — During the past 
season I found specimens of this insect 
very plentiful in the neighbourhood of 
Malvern. — Z. Armitage, Altrincham; 
December 30, 1859. 
Helio this Armigera. — On looking over 
some of our captures, made during the 
summer, we find we have taken two spe- 
cimens of this insect at the ivy bloom at 
Benton, Oxfordshire.— C. and J. Fenn, 
43, Southampton How , Russell Square; 
December 29, 1859. 
EXCHANGE. 
Exchange . — I have a few duplicates of 
the following, nearly the whole of them 
in good condition : — Nos. 19, 20, 89, 106, 
137, 189, 352, 358, 426, 436, 438, 439, 
468, 497, 542, 610, 656, 659, 676, 680, 
709 to 711, 717, 793, 795, 797, 889, 893, 
931 ($), 983, 1078, 1092, 1121, and 
several others. I am in want of 43, 53, 
63, 88, 100 to 102, 112,115, 121, 125, 
132, 134, 149, 151, 152, 155, 156, 170, 
174, 175, 182, 194, 203, 210, 212, 215, 
221, 229, 236, 244, 247, 270, 276, 277, 
287, 294, 301, 320, 350, 377, 385, 389, 
392, 395, 401, &c., but not of the com- 
moner sorts. Applicants had better send 
word what they have to spare before 
sending boxes. — J. H. Langcake, Ox ton, 
near Birkenhead ; Dec. 26, 1859. 
Exchange . — I have duplicates of the 
following insects, as numbered in the Ap- 
pendix to the ‘Manual:’ — 10, 15, 36 to 
38, 45, 46, 54, 57, 58, 73, 74, 354, 360, 
410, 412,484, which I should be glad to 
exchange for— 5, 11, 20, 23, 24, 39, 42 to 
44, 53, 62, 63, 68, 69, 85. As all my 
insects are in good condition, I shall ex- 
pect none but good ones in return. 
I should feel obliged if parties in want of 
any of my duplicates, but not having any 
of my desiderata, would write and let me 
know what they have to offer in exchange. 
Please to write first, as the number of 
some of my insects is but small. — C. 
Holyday, 16, Huntsworth Terrace, Port- 
man Market, London , N.W.; Dec. 26, 
1859. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 
TINEINA. 
Depressabia Hypericella. 
It would appear as if the eggs of this 
insect must be laid in the spring, yet the 
perfect insect has not been observed to 
hybernate. The habits of the imago are, 
however, so retired that it is scarcely 
ever seen in localities where the larva is 
constantly abundant. The larva feeds in 
the tops of Hypericum perforatum and 
hirsutum ; it draws together several of 
the terminal shoots, and, by their deve- 
lopment being thus arrested, a peculiar 
puckered or contorted appearance is given 
to the tops of those plants which are 
attacked by this larva, which thus readily 
attract the attention of the collector. As 
the head of a single plant will generally 
contain sufficient nourishment to feed up 
one of these larvae, the larva has no occa- 
sion to remove from one plant to another, 
but demolishes at its leisure the tender 
shoots in the midst of which it has lo- 
cated itself. The larva is constantly 
much stouter and much more sluggish 
than is usual with the larvae of this genus. 
