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THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
All communications to be addressed to 
Mr. H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield , 
Lewisham , near London. No notice 
xcill be taken of anonymous communi- 
cations. 
JIr. Stainton will be at home, as 
usual, on Wednesday next, at 6 r. m. 
Trains by the North Kent Railway leave 
London Bridge at 5.30, 6.0, and 6.45, 
returning from the Lewisham Station at 
0.13, 10.23, and 10.43, p. m. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Sidney Felix, Brighton. — Suggestion 
received will meet with due attention. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
Lithocolletis Bremiella. — On the 28th 
and 30th of September last, at the side of 
a wood near Bexley, I took a quantity of 
pupae of this insect in the leaves of the 
Bush-Vetch ( Vida Sepium). Some of 
these pupae became moths between the 
1st and i 5th of October, and no more 
appearing I put the jam-pots containing 
the remaining pup® in a cold room with 
a northern aspect. On the 24th of 
February I was surprised to see moths 
walking about on the glass covers of the 
pots, and I found that during the mild 
weather just preceding some had come 
out of the pupa state and died. From 
that time moths have continued to 
appear; during the very cold weather 
only a few, but when warmer several, and 
to-day I have taken out eight. As there 
has been no lire in the room all winter, 
the temperature has been but little above 
that of the external air, and so it is not 
improbable that the moth is only follow- 
ing its natural habit in appearing at this 
early season : I see some Ichneumons 
lying dead in the pots, but if any pro- 
portionate number of the pttpte I took 
become moths T shall have enough to 
supply all to whom 1 have not yet sent 
this latest addition to our native Litho- 
colleles. — J. W. Douglas, 6, Kingswood 
Place , Lee ; March 18, 1856. 
MEMORABILIA FOR APRIL. 
Lf.pidoptera. — Now is the time for 
all the Sallow-frequenting species; the 
Taniocampce and Xantholeuca Croceago 
by night, and Adda cuprella by day. In 
birch woods, though it is full late in the 
season now to look for them, Ceropacha 
favicornis might perhaps still be met 
with at sugar, or a stray Brephos flying 
in the sunshine. 
Biston Prodromaria will be found on 
fences and on the trunks of oaks, gene- 
rally dispersed in woods, whereas its con- 
gener, Biston Uirtaria, is more frequently 
found in the gardens of the London 
squares than elsewhere, — a beneficial pro- 
vision for inculcating in the small fry 
who disport themselves in those loca- 
lities a love of insects in general and 
Lepidoptera in particular. 
Of course it is unnecessary here to 
allude to G. Rhamni and the liyber- 
naling Vanessa ; but if any one alights 
upon Antiopa some fine morning this 
April we shall be glad to hear from him. 
One great prize now to be looked for, 
but easier to be seen than caught, is 
Endromis versicolora, which flies briskly 
by day in woods, more especially on 
woods near heaths: there are probably 
many thousands of these on the wing 
every April, though we so seldom hear of 
any captures: but they are not easy to 
catch ; the flight is so swift and irregu- 
lar, almost worse than the flight of La- 
siocampa Qucrcus, and many a weary 
