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THE ENTOMOLOGISTS WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
is no use in keeping a name without 
a representative. Calosoma inquisitor 
makes its annual pilgrimage up oak 
trees in search of caterpillars this month, 
and I believe it is usually in May that 
the rich relation of the family, C. syco- 
phanta, visits the watering-places on the 
coast, where he may be surprised when 
taking a stroll, or occasionally a bathe in 
the sea. Lebia crux-minor, one of our 
rarest species, was beaten out of the 
blossoms of a hawthorn bush at Coombe 
Hurst, near Croydon, on the 13tli May, 
1841, by Mr. T. Ingall, lucky man that 
he is ; for is it not written also that he 
once found in May, near Camberwell, 
the curious bark-beetle Nemosoma elon- 
yatum. — J. W. D. 
H ymenopteba. — All “ who love to hear 
the wild bees hum,” and have a soul to 
admire them may now do so to their 
hearts’ content, for wherever you walk 
you will see these little creatures basking 
in the sun or flying from bank to bank, 
busily employed (some not very honestly, 
I am sorry to say) in providing for their 
future progeny. 
Amongst the numerous bees that en- 
liven our path now are Jiombus soroensis, 
sylvarum, muscorum, Derliamellus, Apa- 
thus vestnlis, &c., Sp/iecodes rufesccns, 
various species of Nomadce, Anlliopho- 
rce, Halicti, Andrena cineraria, aibicrus, 
niyro-cmca, nitida, albicans, helvola, va- 
rious and tibialis. The three latter were 
so abundant last week at Hampstead that 
I could have got hundreds, but returning 
next day to procure some for a friend, I 
found, alas! they had entirely “gone 
from my gaze,” being, like most of the 
genus, “ here to-day but gone to-morrow 
it cannot, therefore, be too much im- 
pressed on the mind of the young col- 
lector to mark his insects, and, in the 
words of Captain Cuttle, “ When found 
make a note of it.” — Geoiiue EdwAhds, 
21, Wellington Terrace, St. Johns I Vou d ; 
April 28, 1860. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TINEINA. 
The genus Coleophora uext claims our 
attention, for at this period of the year 
the greater part of the larva; wake up 
from their long brumal fast and begin to 
ornament their food-plants by forming 
large pale coloured blotohes on the 
leaves. Of the preparatory states of the 
following species of Coleophora we know 
nothing ! — 
* Fabriciella ] These are all suspected 
* deauratella J- to be attached to 
* Frischella J clover. 
* binotapennclla 
* Vuluerarite 
* niveicostella 
* Therinella 
* murinipennella 
* orbitella 
■*olivaceella. 
The * prefixed indicates that any one 
who shall first discover and communicate 
to me the transformations of twenty such 
species will be entitled to receive gratis a 
copy of the entire series of the ‘Natural 
History of the Tineina.’ 
The Coleophora are not easily reared, 
but we have rarely any difficulty in dis- 
tinguishing species in the larva state, as, 
independently of the difference in the 
larva; themselves, the food, mode of 
feeding, and form of case furnish us 
abundantly with distinctive characters. 
Of the following species I shall be 
very glad to receive larva;, for the pur- 
pose of having them figured and de- 
scribed; — C. Wockeetla, making blotches 
on the leaves of lietonica officinalis; 
C. ochrea, making blotches on the leaves 
of Flelianthemum vulgare ; C. Vibicella, 
in its shining black case, blotching the 
leaves of Genista tinctoria ; C. albicosta, 
feeding on Ulex Europmus, and I should 
be very pleased to hear from those who 
meet with this, what part of the plant the 
larva eats ; C. pallialclla , feeding on oak, 
sallow, sloe, See., and C. currucipvnnclla, 
