THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
J- S. — The tongue-sheath of a Tro- 
chilium pupa should not be long and free, 
we believe. 
E- H. — May break a lance in defence 
of the Universities, if he likes; but we 
anticipate that the two will combine to 
form a Volunteer Rifle Corps. 
CLOANTHA PERSPICILLARIS. 
Our wood-cut this week represents one 
of our rarest Nocture, which is supposed 
to be on the wing in the month of May. 
Little is known of its habits, and whether 
the insect sits sluggishly on palings or 
flies swiftly in the sunlight are questions 
which any one can ask, but who can 
answer? Conspicillaris, formerly rare, 
is gradually becoming common ; perhaps 
Perspicillaris may turn up some day. 
We shall probably recur to this subject 
next week. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidoptera. 
Xylomyges conspicillaris. -r-W ithin the 
last four days I have taken one, and one 
of my boys has taken another, X. conspi- 
cillaris on palings. — R ev. E. Horton, 
Wick, Worcester ; May 11. 
Saturnia Pavonia-minor. — We have 
had fine sport on the Moors to-day; I 
have taken fifty males of S. Pavonia- 
minor, by means of one female, and I 
have taken twenty females, which have 
all laid eggs, so that I have plenty of 
eggs to spare, which I should be glad 
to send to any entomologist. — James 
Varley, Almondbury Bank, Hudders- 
field ; May 9. 
Coleoptera. 
Doings in the North. — After a winter’s 
session at College, we proposed that on 
the first appearance of a “tack” of tine 
weather we should make a short tour — 
or rather, I should say, an entomological 
excursion — to Loch Lomond ; and, the 
evening of the 5th looking clear and pro- 
pitious, we determined to start next 
morning, which accordingly we did, 
leaving Glasgow by train at 7.30 a.m.; 
we arrived at Balloch, at the lower ex- 
tremity of the Loch, where we embarked 
in a small steamer. Strangely enough 
we found on board a friend, a Coleopterist 
of some note, which greatly enhanced the 
pleasure of our trip ; he had come down 
that morning for the same purpose as 
ourselves,— viz., of ascending Ben Lo- 
mond and making an attack on the ento- 
mological garrison on its heights. After 
a few minutes’ delay we were holding our 
course on the Queen of Scottish Lakes ; 
the wind had quite calmed down, so 
much so that the lake was as smooth as 
a mirror, and the reflection on its bosom 
of the numerous islets that stud its surface 
was quite enchanting. The atmosphere, 
however, was rather thick, so that the 
lofty Ben, with his council of state, did 
not become visible till we were within 
a few miles of him. After passing Bal- 
malia and Luss, we reached, at 10.30, 
Rowardennan, the point whence excur- 
sionists set out when about to climb the 
heights. Ben Lomond is 3262 feet 
high, and in ascending there are three 
shoulders — as they may be termed — to 
be climbed ; the ascent of the first is the 
most exhausting: we obtained on it, 
by lifting stones, Olisthopus rotundatus, 
Quedius frontalis and molochinus; and 
by examining the dung of sheep we found 
Aphodius lapponum, Gyll., A. terrestris, 
Steph., A. uliginosus, Hardy, &c., On- 
thophilus striatus, Deliphrum tectum , and 
several species of Cercyon. Under the 
stones, at the foot of the third and last 
