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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
“ Misfortune makes one acquainted with 
strange bedfellows.” The possession of 
Dinarda , however, was a salve for all the 
wounds. If the red-coated prisoners be- 
longed to the Commissariat department, 
I fear they will be sadly missed, and, 
being valuable beyond all price, they are 
not likely to be ransomed. If they merely 
went as camp-followers to see what they 
could pick up, then who will pity their 
fate iu having partaken of the fortune of 
war? — J. W. Douglas, Lee; May 17. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Notes on Eupithecue. — This genus 
should now be worked assiduously by 
students. 
E. Indigaria, one of the most secretly 
kept species, is now out in mixed pine 
and larch woods, and may be found on 
the tree-boles, sitting somewhat triangu- 
larly. The specimens so found, in con- 
sequence of being so well marked, will be 
difficult to name by those who never saw 
the species alive. The insect is generally 
known as a dull, long, pointed-winged 
species, with a distinct dark central spot, 
whereas good specimens are marked 
almost as well as E. constrictaria, but 
are never so green as that species is when 
fresh out. Indigaria is not scarce on 
tree-boles in the Kennell Wood, Dela- 
mere Forest, now. Eggs large, white, 
oval. Larva unknown to me. 
E. constrictaria may be taken freely 
on the wing, from 9 to 12 at night, with 
a lantern, at Llanferris. Sit still, and 
cast the light down a slope on the moun- 
tain side until one is seen crossing the 
light. A few may be found sitting spread 
out on the rocks during the day. Larva 
unknown to me. 
E. assimilaria is now flying round 
black-currant bushes in gardens at dusk, 
depositing its eggs. The larva? are met 
with freely in August and September, by 
picking the leaves with holes eaten in 
them, particularly if in the centre of the 
bush, and by looking on the under side. 
Eggs light greenish white. Larva long, 
cylindrical, very slender; whitish green, 
afterwards pinkish drab, with darker 
lozenge-shaped markings on the back. 
Sometimes the larvae assume the pupa 
state without changing from the first to 
the darker colour. 
E. Irriguaria should also now be 
looked well after in open places in or 
near oak woods, in Wales and all along 
the coast from Conway to Kent. 
Those who have never seen the pretty 
pink larvae of E. rectangularia would do 
well to have an eye to the apple trees; 
if not good larvae-hunters take a chair 
under an apple tree when the perfect 
insect is out, and sitting down upon it 
look up at the under side of the branches, 
where the perfect insects will be found 
sitting. Select females for breeding, and 
feed the larvae upon apple-leaves. 
E. innotaria will claim our attention 
very soon. This species has been fre- 
quently taken inland in old lanes, but 
has been more frequently met with on 
the coast. Its larva is unknown to me. 
I have before me the pretty little Eupi- 
thecia lenuiaria, bred to-day from its 
peculiar larva collected in March in 
sallow-catkins, on which it feeds until 
the leaves only remain for it. Those who 
do not breed must staud under a large 
sallow bush when quite dark, and lookiug 
up, strike at this species as it flies round 
the bush depositing its eggs on the tips 
of the twigs. — C. 8. Gkeuson, Stanley, 
near Liverpool ; May 17. 
Observations on Belgian Tineina. — The 
latitude of Brussels is the same as that 
of Hastings, and the distance between 
Belgium and the Kentish coast is so 
slight that one is disposed to expect that 
the Micros which occur here should also 
be met with in England. My attention 
has been called to the following species, 
which arc not rate here, though as yet 
