THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 
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according to custom, given it a gentle 
Lip, I was surprised to find it break off, 
being the top of a cocoon formed of 
wood, and containing a large maggot, as 
I at first thought: as such I was about 
leaving it, when it suddenly struck me it 
was the larva and pupa case of JEgeria 
Apiformis or Bembeciformis. After much 
scooping (for it was buried in the wood) 
I succeeded in extricating it, and found 
my suspicion correct. The “ modus 
operandi” being now known, I suc- 
ceeded, after two days’ hard labour and 
laborious search, in finding twenty: they 
were local, preferring poplars near the 
edge of a stream, probably because the 
wood was rendered soft by the dampness 
of the situation. The way I detected 
them was as follows: I carefully exa- 
mined the trunk close to the ground, and 
if I saw a small round hole (about the 
size of the tip of my little finger) I was 
pretty sure of my prey. I then removed 
the earth to the depth of a couple of inches 
or so and scooped out the wood round 
the hole, aud was almost always rewarded 
by finding a case : the utmost care is ne- 
cessary in this operation, as the case is 
soft and easily torn: it is also very hard 
work, and requires much patience. I 
thought this hint might be useful to 
those who are in want ol the insect. — 
Joseph Greene, Brandeston, Wood- 
bridge, Suffolk ; April 8, 1856. 
Adela cuprella. — On the 13th iust. I 
took seven specimens of this pretty moth 
on Wimbledon Common, Hying round 
the sallows in the sunshine; my friend 
Mr. H. Tompkins, who was with me, 
did even better, having managed to box 
ten. Mine were all males, so I imagine 
the female is not yet out.— John Hun- 
ter, 24, Bloomsbury Street; April 14, 
1856. 
Micropteryx unimaculella, Src. — On 
Thursday I went to look after Microp- 
teryx, but found very few of the birches 
sprouting: a few unimaculella and about 
thirty semipurpurclla were all I saw, but 
Salopiella is always later in its appear- 
ance. I am now taking larvae of Coleo- 
phora albitarsella and lineola. — G. M. 
Salt, Shrewsbury ; April 12, 1856. 
Xylina rhizolitha.- — I took two speci- 
mens at sallows in March, and a collec- 
tor staying in this neighbourhood took 
nineteen specimens. — W. S. M. D’Ur- 
ban , Newport, near Exeter; April 13, 
1856. 
Nocture at Newark. — The following 
have occurred here at sallows during 
the past week : — Tceniocampa gracilis, 
munda and rubricosa sparingly, and 
Trachea piniperda freely ; also Calo- 
campa exoleta and its rarer congeuer ve- 
tusta . — G. Gascoyne, Newark, Notts.; 
April 12, 1856. 
Brephos Notha wanted. — Seeing by 
the ‘Intelligencer’ that Brephos Notha 
is common at West Wickham, will any 
kind friend have the kindness to procure 
a few specimens of it for me, as neither 
Notha nor Parthenias are to be taken in 
this neighbourhood ? The only rarity I 
have met with is two specimens of Dasy- 
campa rubiginea at sallows. What can 
Depressaria Alstrcemeriana be doing on 
the buds of Prunus spinosa ? can they be 
depositing their eggs? The females ap- 
pear to direct themselves to these bushes, 
and to nothing else. — E. Pabfitt, 4, 
Weirjield Place, St. Leonard’s, Exeter ; 
April 12, 1856. 
[D. Alstrcemeriana is known to feed 
on Conium maculatum (Hemlock) : why 
it should congregate on the sloe hushes 
we know not.] 
Callistus lunatus. — Two specimens of 
this insect, which is certainly one of the 
most beautiful of the British Geodephaga, 
were taken by me on the 5th inst. on 
Bucklaud Hill, near Reigate, under a 
stone, and close to the spot where so 
many have been found within the last 
year or two. This famous spot, how- 
ever, has now been ploughed over. — 
Henry Adams, 19, Hanover Villas, Not- 
ling Hill; April 15, 1856. 
