THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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run have we had after that insect. But 
where the males of Endromis occur there 
must be females, and if you can but fiud 
a female, especially a newly hatched one, 
there can be no great difficulty in obtain- 
ing males in tolerable plenty. 
W e must recommend to the attention 
of our Northern readers Pelasia nubecu- 
losa ; aud now that Entomologists in the 
North of Scotland are turning up in 
plenty, we hope some of them will turn 
up this insect: it must be sought for on 
the trunks of trees, especially birches, 
and a large grey-brown insect, nearly the 
size of Xylophasia polyodon, ought to be 
easily detected by those earnestly looking 
for it. Those who have no opportunity 
of looking for this insect in Scotland 
may try if it* has not a more southern 
habitation, for there may be no particu- 
lar reason why it should have been taken 
at Rannoch, unless it be that all the 
keenest Entomologists go to Rannoch to 
catch what they can, and consequently 
more good things are taken there than 
elsewhere. 
The larvae of Arctia caja, villica, and 
Easiocampa Rubi, will of course be freely 
collected by those who want them. 
Among the Tortricina, Spilonotu pau- 
perana, occurring among roses in hedges 
near Darenth Wood, and Hcusirnene 
fimbriana , which appears to frequent 
oaks, those on which the dried leaves 
still remain, may be especially alluded 
to ; and those who do not possess Coccyx 
pygmceana, and are disposed on that 
account to doubt it being a British 
species, are advised to try if by beating 
the fir-trees they cannot meet with this 
little moth, which from the whitish 
colour of its hind wings must be tolera- 
bly conspicuous on the wing, in spite of 
its small size, as by so doing they will 
not only add a species to their collection, 
but also disembarrass their minds from 
the prejudice about its not being British. 
CoLEOFTEUA. EfJ J. JV. Douglas . — 
All through the winter the Coleopterist 
has had plenty to do out of doors, when 
the weather was not frosty, in searching 
moss; and even now the temperature is 
not sufficiently high to have tempted the 
hosts of beetles, large and small, that, 
like the forty thieves, lie still with only a 
slight covering on their heads, waiting 
till the Entomological Morgiana comes 
and lifts it off. Moss is the great 
hiding-place through the winter of the 
majority of the beetles, that become per- 
fect in the autumn, that is, of those 
species that usually live on or near the 
ground — Geodephaya, Pselaphidce, Sta- 
phylinidce , Curculionidce , aud others ; 
some species absolutely swarm, others 
are comparatively rare, or probably it 
would be more correct to say they are 
local. No one knows from the look of a 
place what he may nut turn up, not that 
he is then and there to determine them, 
but from the most unpromising bit of 
ground he may find, when searching his 
“extract” by the fire-side, that he has 
been lucky enough to obtain a rarity. 
It was thus, some time since, I got 
Amara oricalcica ; and on an exposed 
place on Blaokheath, where the moss 
was short and hard, three specimens of a 
little rarity, which one who ought to 
know says is Paromalus minulus. 
Of Curabus intricatus “four or five 
individuals were taken from under the 
moss and lichens growing on the lower 
part of the trunks of trees in the woods 
at Bickleigh Vale, Devonshire.” Why 
not more of this rarity ? There must be 
others in the south-west of England, but 
they require to be looked for, and now is 
the time. 
Last autumn Dr. Power found Nutio- 
philus rufipes at Shirley, near Croydon, 
among tufts of grass at the root of trees. 
Ardent aud successful a collector as the 
Doctor is, I don’t believe he has exter- 
minated the species, and it doubtless is to 
be met with in similar situations, both in 
the same and other districts: the original 
specimen was captured near Carlisle. 
