THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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Treitsclikiella, informs me that lie re- 
members having seen a few years ago at 
the close of summer, some vine leaves 
with holes, similar to those in the mined 
leaves of the dogwood. — H. T. Stain- 
ton ; April 30, 1856. 
CEcophora Schcefferdla. — Herr Gra- 
bow, of Berlin, recently sent me some 
decayed mulberry-wood with larvae of 
Ilarpella Bracteella ; from this decayed 
wood two specimens of Schafferella have 
just made their appearance. — H. T. 
Stainton ; April 30, 1856. 
Peridea trepula. — Is it not early for 
this species ? I saw a remarkably fine 
male taken on the bole of an oak at 
West Wickham Wood, on the 27th 
iust., by Mr. Fancourt, an indefatigable 
entomologist. — W. H. Tugwell, 33, 
Wilton Place , Belgravia ; April 29, 
1856. 
Captures near Brighton. — I have lately 
taken near Brighton the following Co- 
leoptera: — Trechus lapidosus (2), Bem- 
bidium 5-striatum, Anchomenus atratus , 
Procas picipes, Philonthus ebeninus. In 
Hymenoptera : — Anthophora Haworthana 
5 (several ), Andrena fulvicrus $ and 9) 
and at Tilgate four specimens of Nomada 
borealis. I should be glad if you will 
rectify an inadvertence: if I mentioned 
last week Ceropacha ride ns, it should have 
been C.Jlavicornis. — John Hemmings, 
2, Bedford Buildings , Brighton ; April 
28, 1856. 
Elacliista tamiatella, Zeller. — This in- 
sect, which is new to our Fauna, has been 
reared by me from the larva found mining 
the leaves of Brachypodium sylvaticum 
last September and October (see Ent. 
Annual, 1856, p. 64). It is closely allied 
to zonariella and gangabella, but dis- 
tinguished at once from either of these 
by its having the cilia of the anterior 
wings unicolorous. I intend shortly to 
describe it in the ‘ Transactions of the 
Entomological Society,’ as also Litho- 
colletis aucupariclla, bred by me for some 
years past from the mountain ash (see 
Ent. Annual, 1856,p. 114). — John Scott, 
South Stockton ; April 28, 1856. 
[We have not yet heard whether Herr 
Schmid has bred the same species from 
the larvae he obtained.] 
MEMORABILIA FOR MAY. 
Coleoptera. — By J. W. Douglas . — 
Spring and autumn are the great times 
for Geodephaga, though there are some 
species that seem to be found only in the 
summer. Marshy ground, especially all 
the fens of Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon- 
shire, Sic., and other damp localities, 
particularly in woods, now yield a fine 
harvest. Among the fen insects we may 
mention Odacantha melanura, the rare 
Demetrias imperialis, D. sigma and ob- 
scuroguttatus , Oddes Helopioides, Bembi- 
dium several species, &c. Wet places in 
woods are also good for many species. 
On the coasts and the banks of tidal 
rivers, those pretty little beetles, the 
Dyschirii, begin to be active. Carabus 
arvensis and C. nitens are to be taken on 
heaths in the South of England. Of 
Carabus cancellatus we read, “ that only 
four examples were taken in a chalk-pit 
at Northfleet, in the spring of 1826.” 
Thirty years ago, and not another speci- 
men ! Were these four the last of the 
race, resolved to live or die together, and 
so met their fate? Were the insects 
really captured, and if so by whom ? Or 
is the whole story some dealer’s myth ? 
This is none of Dr. Leach’s Devonshire 
mysteries, — which, by the way, I think 
there is reason to believe in, — and if there 
were any remnant of the cancellatus 
race left in or near “ the chalk-pit near 
Gravesend,” undisputed possession for 
thirty years should have enabled the 
settlers to have made it a land of Goshen, 
aud the species ought to be there now. 
If it be not soon found, then I vote we 
expunge the name from our lists; there 
