THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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Cryptocephalus 6-punctatus, 
„ flavilabris. 
— H. J. Harding, 1 , York St., Church 
Street, Shoreditch. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Two Winters in Pupa . — The following 
species have appeared perfect this spring, 
after having remained two winters in the 
pupa state : — 
Notodonta Camelina, 
„ Droinedarius, 
Saturnia Pavonia-minor, 
Cymatophora flavicornis. 
It is probably the habit of the last species 
to remain two winters as pupae, as no 
larvae that I have had came out the 
first spring. — T. Chapman, Glasgow ; 
Mag 21. 
A new Gelechia, proposed to he called 
G. Freyii . — From the Centaurea miner 
obtained last year, as stated in the ‘ In- 
telligencer,’ I have just reared a little 
dark brown Gelechia, and which I pro- 
pose naming as above, after the discoverer 
of the larva. I have not yet had time 
to describe it, but intend doing so shortly. 
— John Scott, Southfield Villas, Mid- 
cllesborough ; May 24. 
Larva and Food-plant of Gelechia 
m armor ea . — A curious story is told of the 
way in which hedgehogs used to become 
possessed of the fallen apples in orchards, 
by rolling themselves over on their backs, 
so that the quills entered them, and the 
animals thus walked off in apple-pie 
order. After a somewhat similar fashion 
a friend was advised to roll himself in 
the sand of the sand-hills, and then ex- 
amine his clothes for the little sand 
cocoons he might find attached. But 
perhaps as easy a way is to lie down and 
examine carefully at the roots of the 
chickweed. He will then find there are 
little tubes made just below the surface, 
and by tracing them to the end will per- 
ceive that the larva just emerges under 
some of the leaves trailing on the grouud, 
and then eats its fill and retires to some 
other leaf. The larva is stoutisli, of a 
pale dirty yellow' colour, with three 
brownish pink lines down the back. 
Each segment, except the anal one, has 
three black spots on each side of the 
dorsal line, placed one anteriorly and two 
posteriorly, thus forming a triangle. The 
anal segment has simply a ring of spots ; 
head pitchy ; corselet browm. In one or 
two cases I have observed the head of 
the larva to be also brown ; but this may 
arise from a difference of age. They 
are exceedingly abundant, and the little 
cocoons, by passing the sand through a 
piece of coarse muslin, may be picked up 
in any quantity. — Ibid. 
Supposed Larva of Gelechia pictella . — 
At the roots of the same chickweed on 
which Marmorea feeds I have discovered 
another little larva constructing a tube 
just under the surface of the ground. It 
is more slender than the larva of Mar- 
morea, and is slightly hairy ; head brown ; 
body beneath yellow ; on the back pinkish 
yellow. On the place where I found it 
I am in the habit of taking Pictella every 
year, and I am therefore half inclined to 
conclude that it is the larva of this spe- 
cies. In searching for it I turned up a 
very great many of the larva of one of 
the Noctuse, perhaps an Agrotis ; whether 
it feeds on the chickweed or the Galium, 
which is very abundant, I caunot say. — • 
Ibid ; May 25. 
Wasps’ Nests. 
In a previous number of the ‘Intelli- 
gencer ’ I communicated a method by 
which a regular series of the nests of 
wasps might readily and with certainty 
be obtained. The advantages of this 
plan are obvious, when we consider that 
under ordinary circumstances it is by the 
merest accident we stumble upon a nest 
at its commencement. The chances are 
we fail to meet with one till it has 
