THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
5 L 
for collecting and preserving insects. It 
is on sale at Van Voorst’s, Paternoster 
Row, price half-a-crown. 
Errata. — In No. 5, p. 35, first column, 
line 34, the words Polia Herbida are 
omitted ; it should read “ I had a lot of 
eggs from a female Polia Herbida last 
July.” Owing to this omission the fol- 
lowing sentence reads as applying to 
H. silaceata. 
In No. 6, p. 43, second column, ten 
lines from bottom, for “ this spring Eupi- 
thecia consignata was taken,” read “ three 
years ago a single specimen of E. con- 
signata was taken.” 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
Dragon-flies near Exeter. — I have 
taken the following species in this neigh- 
bourhood, and think I can procure them 
for any collector who may be in want of 
all or any of them : it is much easier to 
forward the perfect insects alive than 
when set. 
Libellula quadri macula ta, 
„ depressa, 
„ cairulescens, 
„ vulgata, 
Corduligaster annulatus, 
/Eschua pratensis, 
„ cyanea, 
Calepteryx virgo, 
„ splendens, 
Lestes viridis, and 
Agriou elegans. 
1 keep few or rather no duplicates, for I 
would much rather sit on the bank and 
watch them hovering over the stream, 
and then darting to seize some passing 
butterfly or moth, than to have them in 
goodly rows, like strings of onions, in 
my collection, perhaps a prey to mites. 
Therefore, if any entomologist wants any, 
let him write to me to that effect , and if 
procurable he shall have it before the 
season is over, otherwise the duplicate 
of even the rarest moths will 
“ Be as free to live, and to enjoy that life 
As God was free to form them at the first.” 
— E. T. Norcombe, 5, Salutary Mount, 
Heavitree, Exeter ; May 6, 1856. 
Captures at Darenth Wood.—- May 1st, 
Ennomos illustraria. May 3rd, Cloantha 
conspicillaris. The frosty nights kill 
many of the insects that have emerged 
from the pupa during the day : I have 
seen them lying dead under the sprigs 
that they were on the evening before. I 
have never previously observed this. May 
it not account for the rarity of some 
species at different periods? — H. J. 
Harding, 1, York Street, Church Street, 
Shoreditch ; May 7, 1856. 
Grapholitha Corolluna. — I do not find 
this given as British, and yet I certainly 
think it must occur with you, since you 
have the aspen ( Populus tremula ) and 
Saperda populnea. Where the aspen has 
knobs on the twigs, an indication of the 
whereabouts of the Saperda larva, you 
will probably find some projecting heaps 
of “frass;” if so, the larva or pupa of 
Grapholitha corollana may be found 
within. — P. C. Zeller, Gross Glogau ; 
May 5, 1856. 
Depressaria Alslrcemeriana ( see No. 3, 
p. 19). — This flies among sloe-bushes for 
the same reason that Applana flies 
amongst all sorts of bushes, because its 
food-plant grows below them. — Ibid. 
Chrysophanus dispar in Staffordshire. 
— This sounds at present not unlike 
capturing it five miles from anywhere. 
Perhaps Mr. Weaver will be kind enough 
to favour us with the part of Staffordshire, 
or the place therein where it was taken, 
and which evidently, in his earnestness 
to make public this valuable discovery, 
he has overlooked. — John Scott, South 
Stockton; May 6, 1856. 
Harmonies between Plants and Insects. 
— The observation you make in your very 
useful 4 Intelligencer’ as to the insects 
