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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
attached to the mountain St. John’s-wort 
( Hypericum montanum) and liquorice- 
vetch ( Astragalus glycyphyllos) suggests 
the advantage of studying the harmonies 
between plants and insects. I never knew 
a spot good for rare plants but what was 
also sure to produce a quota of good 
insects too, if carefully searched for. 
Entomologists would therefore do well to 
have a general knowledge of plants, at 
least as far as genera are concerned, for 
I have often found it difficult to get an 
entomological collector to give me a 
sufficient account of a plant, which, from 
his scanty vegetable knowledge, he fan- 
cied was very rare. Perhaps on a tour a 
botanist and an entomologist might be 
mutually useful to each other, and cer- 
tainly a local Flora, with the habitats of 
rare plants given, would be found very 
useful to a wandering insect- catcher. 
Sometimes, in a secluded spot, a rare 
plant in flower tempts insects to settle 
upon it that might otherwise be wearily 
trudged after. I remember a beautiful 
sight in the summer of last year on Worle 
Hill, Somerset, where a fine group of the 
exceedingly rare field Eryngium (E. cam- 
pest rc) had its curious spinous flowers 
adorned by the exquisite little Chalk-hill 
B 1 ue ( Po lyom mat us Cory don) settled upon 
them, and I could not find this rare 
butterfly anywhere on the hill ; its fine 
perception had brought it to the flowering 
Eryngium, and that in such a secluded 
thicket and broken-stone surrounded spot 
that none but a poking naturalist could 
have penetrated to. With regard to the 
Hypericum montanum, if any entomolo- 
gist wants to make a harvest out of that, 
let him go in June to Brean Down, near 
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, where, 
among the rocks of that peninsula, the 
plant grows in greater abundance than I 
have ever seen it elsewhere. In May 
and June also the rocks of Brean Down 
are covered with the rare white-flowered 
cistus ( Ilelianlhcmum polifolium), but 
only on the southern side: and those 
sunny slopes, abounding also with the 
blue-flowered Iris (Iris feetidissima) and 
thickets of dwarf privet, would, I will 
venture to say, amply reward the research 
of any skilful entomologist who had the 
opportunity to make a day of exploration 
there. — Edwin Lees, Ilenmck, Worces- 
ter ; May 11,1 856. 
Duplicate Luperina connexa. — Having 
a few specimens left, which may be useful 
to some of your southern readers, I shall 
be happy to supply any applicants as long 
as my stock holds out. — William Lay- 
cock, 151, Bath Street, Sheffield ; May 
13, 1856. 
Lasiocampa Trifolii. — I shall be happy 
to forward this larva to any one in want 
of it. — J. J. Reading, 42, Gibbons Street, 
Plymouth ; May 13, 1856. 
Opatrum sabulosum. — Any Coleopterist 
wanting this insect to complete his series 
can have it on application. — Ibid. 
Lepidoptera in Devon. — I took Harpa- 
lyce ocellata at Tcignmouth yesterday. 
Melanthia rivata is now to be taken : 
let those who want it write ; it may be 
scarce in some places, for Alchemillala 
(the Common Carpet) I have never met 
with here. I should be very glad to 
receive a pair of Harpalyce galiata, if any 
one has it on hand. Leucophasia Sinapis 
will soon be out : does any one want it ? — 
E. S. Nokcombe, 5, Salutary Mount, 
Ileavitree, Exeter ; May 13, 1856. 
Drepana unguicula. — I am now taking 
this in a beech wood near Bristol. — 
J. Bolt, Broad Street , Bristol; May 13, 
1856. 
Four Hours' Collecting at Windermere. 
— On Whit-Monday Mr. W. Ashworth 
and I availed ourselves of a cheap trip 
to this delightful place. It being rather 
early for many species of Lepidoptera, we 
did not expect to meet with much ; how- 
ever, it appeared that both vegetation and 
insects were at least a fortnight earlier 
there than here, some fifty miles further 
South. We met with Leucophasia Sinapis, 
Theda Uuhi, Eurymene dolabraria, Te- 
