102 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
the very essence of future growth and 
vitality. The pools and ponds breed and 
shelter their untold millions of living 
entities — all rapturously enjoying their 
day of life, revelling in the genial rays of 
the summer sun, and bearing their living 
humble testimony to the glory and success 
of creative wisdom and power. The air 
also affords a rich harvest to the ento- 
mologist, who can boast of here meeting 
with some of his choicest treasures. A 
most interesting operation was witnessed 
by many of the members in connection 
with the beetle known as Necrophorus 
mortuorum, or burying beetle. In this 
instance a herd had collected, and were 
busy in burying a young rabbit, when 
they were themselves suddenly cap- 
tured, and their operations suspended 
by the entomologists. Amongst the in- 
sects captured were Argynnis Selene , Ne- 
meophiki plantaginis and Procris Slatices, 
with a great number of other species. 
At the last meeting of the Association a 
beautiful specimen of the scarce insect 
Acronycta Alni was shown, as having 
been taken at Edgbaston, a few days 
ago. — Abridged from the ‘ Birmingham 
Daily Post' of June 14. 
OBSERVATION'S ON THE GENUS 
ORNIX. 
BY DB. WOCKE, OF BRESLAU. 
[Most of our readers have heard of 
Dr. Wocke; for have we not in the ge- 
nus Coleophora that conspicuous species 
Woche.ella ? In our recent tour on the 
Continent we had an opportunity of 
seeing, in the collections of several 
friends, indisputable proofs of the un- 
wearied zeal of Dr. Wocke in pursuit of 
the Micros ; and through the kindness 
of Senator von Heyden, we received a 
copy of the ‘ Berioht des Lepidopterolo- 
gischcu Tauscliveriens’ for 18o7, in which 
wc find some critical remarks on the 
genera Micropteryx and Ornix from the 
pen of Dr. Wocke ; some of his observa- 
tions on the latter genus we proceed to 
lay before our readers.] 
Ornix Avellanella. From this species, 
which is abundant on hazel-bushes, pro- 
bably throughout Germany, I am not at 
present able to separate the specimens 
from hornbeam (Carpinus Betulus). Yet 
they seem rather narrower, with longer 
wings; and the tuft of the head, as well 
as the general appearance of the anterior 
wings, especially along the inner margin, 
have a more ochreous tint, but in the 
markings of the wings and palpi I can 
detect no difference. 
Anglicella is the most abundant species 
round Breslau, to be met with everywhere 
on sloe-bushes and hawthorn-hedges at 
the beginning of May and end of July. 
Finitimella is much scarcer, and I have 
only twice met with fine specimens of it ; 
hitherto I have bred neither of these 
species. 
Anynliferella lives probably exclusively 
on the leaves of pear trees, at least I have 
hitherto only bred it from such food. The 
species is found in gardens near Breslau, 
in May and at the end of July and be- 
ginning of August. 
T'orquillella, which is easily recognised 
by its size, the dark colour of the anterior 
wings, and the unspotted white palpi, 
I have only bred from sloe-leaves ; it 
seems to occur, though not abundantly, 
throughout Silesia, except indeed on the 
higher mountains, where it is replaced by 
Scolicella, which follows its food-plant, 
Sorbus aucreparia , up to the crest of the 
Riesengebirge. 
Betulce and Scutulalella both feed on 
birch, and are nearly equally abundant 
in the neighbourhood of Breslau. 
[Our readers will perceive that these 
notes contain much information. Wo 
have often had our attention called to the 
hornbeam species, and enquiries have 
