THE ENTOLOMOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
51 
Change of Address. — Dr. Wallace 
lias removed from No. 5, Green Terrace, 
Clerkenwell, E.C., to 23, Bedford Place, 
Bloomsbury, W.C. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
W. H. B. — The insects are not Lepi- 
dopterous, though described by Linnaeus 
as such ; they are Aleyrocles proletella, 
and belong to tb# sub-order Homoptera. 
E. H. S. — They feed on the wood of 
willow and other trees; duration of life 
rather uncertain. 
A. E. — Many thanks for the offer of 
larvae of Cervinata, but want of time pre- 
vents our attending to any larvae but those 
of our own specialities, the Tineina. 
C. G. 0. enquires where can he get 
bottles for rearing Tineina larva ? We 
get our glass tubes of H. Baker, 90, 
Hatton Garden ; he being a glass-tube 
maker can make anything to order. For 
localities near Norwood, we cannot do 
better than recommend West Wickham 
Wood and Shirley Common. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidopteba. 
Deilephila Livornica. — In the autumn 
of 1857 three specimens of D. Livornica 
were caught by a man, flying around a 
lamp near the door of his house, about a 
mile from this city. He was totally 
ignorant of the nature of his capture, 
being no entomologist. He gave them 
to a friend of mine, from whom I have 
had the gratification of receiving two, 
and which T have set and gladly placed 
in my cabinet. They were taken upon 
different nights, and both of them are in 
tolerably good condition. In order that 
1 might be fully convinced of the truth 
of the circumstance, my friend accom- 
panied me to the person who had cap- 
tured them, and the account he gave me 
was highly satisfactory. I have obtained 
a written testimony of the capture duly 
and properly signed. — A. Edmunds, The 
Ty thing, Worcester ; May 7. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Larva of Coremia munilaria. — Last 
June, Mr. Chapman, of Glasgow, kindly 
sent me eight eggs of the above. They 
hatched the day after they reached me. 
Mr. Chapman did not know their proper 
food, so I tried dandelion, but they did 
not like it. I then tempted them with 
groundsel, which they devoured with 
avidity. After the first moult three died, 
and the remaining five seemed disposed 
to follow their example. However, they 
continued to eat slowly, without in- 
creasing much in size throughout the 
summer aud autumn. In January they 
began to feed again, rapidly increasing 
in size. By the beginning of March 
they were full fed, and about a fortnight 
since became pup®. The following is a 
description of the larva, when full fed : — 
Length one inch ; ground-colour dull 
green or brown, very variable ; segments 
pink or flesh-coloured. The body is 
slightly sprinkled with black dots, with 
two very distinct blotches on the sixth 
and seventh segments, the latter being 
the largest. The caterpillar spins up in 
moss, and the pupa is brown. I am now 
breeding lovely specimens (forced) of 
Eupithecia similaria from larva; beaten 
oft' black currants. — Rev. J. Greene, in 
the May number of the ‘ Zoologist. ’ 
Ants’ -Nest Beetles.— Thinking it high 
time I saw an ants’- nest beetle, and 
getting quite tired of waiting to see one 
from the London District, I wrote to 
Perthshire for a bag or sackful of ants’- 
nest rubbish, to be forwarded per rail, and 
