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to the Mandibulate Coleoptera or to the 
Haustellate Hemiptera, no doubt it was 
a great curiosity ; but if there was no 
doubt as to its affinities, why should 
such a question be put, unless it were 
to prove the necessity of Examinations 
in Entomology. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 
TINEIN A. 
The Genus Depeessaria. 
We called attention lately (Intel. No. 
132, p. 15) to the larvae which we are 
anxious to receive belonging to this 
genus, with the view of working out, if 
possible, sufficient histories of the flat- 
bodies to enable the sixth volume of the 
‘ Natural History of the Tineiua’ to em- 
brace the twenty-four species of the genus 
Depressaria. 
We had not space then to do more 
than refer to our notice, a year ago, on 
the subject of this genus ; but having 
now nearly overtaken all our arrears of 
more important matter, we recur to this 
subject more in detail. 
The thistle- and kuapweed-feeding 
larvae of Depressaria Propinquella and 
Subpropinquella will be acceptable to us 
when they make their appearance in 
July. Both larvae, we believe, undergo 
a considerable transformation in their 
process of growth, the juvenile larvae 
having black heads and shoulders, 
whereas their seniors have a pale brown 
physiognomy, and the second segment 
more nearly concolorous with the green 
body. We mention this fact, lest any 
inexperienced collector should assume 
that the black-headed larvae were one 
species aud the brown-headed larva) 
another; he would then infallibly arrive 
at the conclusion that each larva pro- 
duced both species, and would so prove, 
to his own satisfaction , that Propinquella 
and Subpropinquella were one species. 
Alstrcemeriana should be looked for to- 
wards the end of J une amongst the leaves 
of Conium maculatum , — it feeding with 
impunity on that which poisoned So- 
crates. 
Purpurea should be searched for in the 
leaves of Torilis Anthriscus late in J une, 
but whether it is easy to distinguish from 
the universally common pest Applana, we 
cannot say. 
Capreolella has once been bred from a 
greenish Applana-Yike larva found near 
Micklehara, on the 26th of June, on the 
piuuate radical leaves of Pimpinella 
Saxifraga. 
Carduella has been bred by Mr. Boyd 
from a grey-green larva, with dark head, 
which fed on the under side of the leaves 
of the thistle, on the Downs near Lyn- 
mouth, on the 26th of July. — H. T. 
Sta inton ; May 9, 1859. 
A NEGLECTED SHARK. 
To the Editor of the ‘ Intelligencer.' 
Sir, — I write to say that I am most 
unaccountably neglected. I have lately 
been passed without ceremony by mistake 
for Cucullia Umbratica, and though on 
two occasions, when taken for that insect, 
incipients pierced me, they did so in a 
careless way, evidently deeming I was 
that very common species. Who ever 
takes Umbratica as early as this? or who 
ever sees Umbratica with plumage as 
dark as mine ? 
Yours much neglected, 
Cucullia Chamomill* . 
Palings, near Charlton ; 
May 10. 
