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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Sheppard exhibited a specimen of this 
rare British Geometra, taken on a post 
by the sea-side near Margate, by Mr. W. 
Aldridge, on the 27th of September last. 
Synemons from Australia. — Mr. 
Newman sent for exhibition some speci- 
mens of Synemon , which, from the ob- 
servations of one or two collectors 
brought to his notice, he was disposed to 
consider were allied to the Hesperidce 
(Skippers). 
C OLE O PTE RA WITH DlLATED HEADS. 
— Mr. Westwood exhibited two small 
species of beetles, with singularly Uat- 
tened and broad heads : one of these 
was an insect of uncertain location, 
which had been received by Herr Dohrn 
from Columbo, in Ceylon, and for which 
that entomologist had proposed the name 
j Enotiophorus Westwoodii. Mr. West- 
wood, however, suggested the more cha- 
racteristic name of E. vestitus for this 
species, which was much clothed with 
pubescence. The other species belonged 
to the family of the Era ly l idee, and was a 
native of Guinea. Mr. Westwood pro- 
posed to call it Triplacoiles Guineensis. 
A Domestic Pest. — Mr. Westwood 
exhibited some small Acari, which had 
been sent him by Dr. Lee, who bad re- 
ceived them from Miss Pitman, of Lyme 
Regis, whose house had recently been 
infested with them to such a degree that 
it seemed hardly possible to extirpate 
them, till she tried burning a quantity of 
sulphur and nitre in her rooms : this 
eventually had the desired effect of rid- 
ding her of her pest, but also injured all 
her drawings, all her books with coloured 
plates, all the polish of the furniture, and 
the enamel on her shells. 
The Small Spider of the Origa- 
num. — Those who have visited the Hilly 
Field in autumn and spring, and have 
been swee ping or gathering the heads of 
the marjoram ( Oriyanum vulgare), can- 
not have failed to notice a little spider. 
On my recent pilgrimage to the shrine of 
Coleophora conspicuella I collected a 
few of these spiders, and sent them to 
Mr. Meade for determination ; he pro- 
nounces them to be Ergates benigna , 
Blackwall ( Theridion benignum, Wal- 
ckenaer). Mr. Meade remarks, “these 
are all immature specimens in different 
stages of growth ; these spiders construct 
a nest in the summer at the end of twigs 
of heath or juniper, or (as you find) Ori- 
ganum, and there the young are bred, 
and seem to remain all the winter.” — H. 
T. Stainton ; April 5, !85t>. 
Mining Larva: in Fir-Leaves. — 
In the leaves of the Scotch fir ( Pinus 
sylvestris), Mr. Wilkinson, of Scar- 
borough, sent me a mining larva. The 
habit of this larva was to mine from the 
top of the leaf downwards, the mined 
place being left full of excrement: thus, 
before the larva was the uudevoured 
green pulp of the leaf, behind it a mass 
of greenish excrement. Shortly after 
this larva had been found, “ and made a 
note of,” I noticed in my garden some 
mined fir-leaves, and on closely exami- 
ning them found that my lir-miners were 
something different. They had evi- 
dently learnt that a heap of excrement 
was a nuisance, so each larva had a 
small outlet to its mine, through which 
the excrement was ejected, and the in- 
side of the mine was kept perfectly clean 
and tidy. Herr Schmid, of Frankfort-on- 
the-Maine, wrote me that they had found 
two new larvae in fir-leaves this spring, 
and sent me the two kinds above-men- 
tioned: also Herr Grabow, of Berlin, 
writes me be has discovered a larva 
mining the leaves of the fir, so that it 
would appear that the time for the disco- 
very of these larvae had arrived. What 
those larva) will produce yet remains to 
