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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Petasia nubeculosa . — I have succeeded 
recently in breeding four specimens of 
this fine Prominent from eggs, which I 
received from Mr. Foxcroft, from Scot- 
land, two years ago. The pupse I had 
kept out of doors the whole time, and 
exposed almost entirely to every change 
of the weather; those I had in the house 
have not made their appearance, except 
one cripple, and all have passed two 
winters in the pupa state. The larvae 
feed on birch very freely. — S. Stevens, 
24, Bloomsbury Street , W.C. 
EXCHANGE. 
Larva wanted . — I shall be happy to 
hear from any one who has the larvae of 
Euthemonia Russula to spare. — It. H. 
Fkem li n, Waterinybury, near Maidstone, 
Kent; March 25. 
LARViE OF NOCTU.E. 
At this season of the year many a young 
entomologist visits the sallows night after 
night, in pursuit of moths in the perfect 
state, and walks home sometimes rather 
disconsolate, with only one Cruda in his 
pocket. Yet the same individual might, 
while on this fruitless errand, if his ener- 
gies had only been directed a little dif- 
ferent, have pocketed larvae of Fimbria, 
Tincta and perhaps Ditrapezium. 
Caterpillars are fond of eating. Noctuae 
larvte are fond of eating by night; the 
leaf-buds of the sallows are so nice and 
tender, and to a hungry larva are as 
much in request as early asparagus is 
with the genus Homo. The same search 
and the same lantern at the same bushes 
would, if larvae had been looked for, have 
given a far more profitable result, than 
when only the perfect insects were the 
objects of research. True, the larva; want 
tending and feeding, but what mother 
thinks it a trouble to attend to her own 
children, and what entomologist deems 
it a bore to have to attend to the wants 
of his own hungry larvae? Giving them 
their daily pabulum is one of the greatest 
pleasures in life ! 
Sometimes, we admit, there is patience 
and labour required in the process of 
larva-feeding, but this is a work-loving 
generation, and we know very few who 
are hopelessly and incurably idle. 
And no tyro would venture to admit, 
even to his most intimate friend, that he 
abstained on principle from hunting for 
larvae, because if he did so, and was suc- 
cessful in finding any, he should have to 
feed them. 
Sloe-bushes, roses, birch shoots, — all 
deserve an attentive scrutiny during the 
next three or four weeks, and we trust 
some will take the hint. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 
TINEINA. 
The Genus Coleophora. 
Most of our readers are aware that the 
fourth volume of the 1 Natural History of 
the Tineina,’ now in the printer’s hands, 
will contain the private lives of twenty- 
four species of the genus Coleophora, but 
it may perhaps not be so generally known 
that the fifth volume, which we have 
already begun to write, will also treat of 
the same genus, and will furnish memoirs 
of twenty-four other species. 
We are of course anxious to make the 
details in these volumes as full and as 
interesting as possible, and therefore sug- 
gest the following enquiries; — 
Ochrea. Does this larva begin to feed 
in the autumn? We should fancy so, 
and that il must have attained a con- 
