THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER 
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In running water I took A. didymus, 
and three of A. paludosus ; the latter is 
not one of our commonest species. — J. 
W. Douglas, Lee ; May 20, 1856. 
Colyrnbetes guttiger . — Dr. Power tells 
me he gets this species only from the 
North ; will some of our friends there 
have the goodness to bear in mind this 
want of the southerners, if they meet with 
the species this summer. — Ibid. 
Lebia crux-minor . — I took three ex- 
amples of this fine beetle at Holm Bush, 
on the 4th inst., and two on the 11th. — 
John Hem mings, 2, Bedford Buildings, 
Brighton; May 19, 1856. 
Bembidium obtiquum , fyc. — I got 
about a dozen specimens of this species 
under stones on the wet mud at Hove 
yesterday, and several Bargains attenua- 
tus, H. rubripes, fc., from moss near 
there. — Ibid. 
Singular larvce : what are they ? — In 
searching for Coleoptera during the past 
week, I rolled over some large stones, 
which for some time had been left on the 
grass in the park : under these I dis- 
covered a quantity of caterpillars of a 
very transparent milk - white colour, 
sparingly sprinkled over with black dots 
of various sizes, head and last joint of 
the body shining black ; they appeared 
to be in a dormant state, being curled up 
in cavities made in the earth, the stone 
forming a roof to shelter them from cold. 
If you could inform me, in the next 
number of the ‘ Entomologist’s Weekly 
Intelligencer,’ what these in all proba- 
bility will turn to, you will greatly oblige 
Yours See., William Allen, Western 
Terrace, the Parle, Nottingham ; May 
19, 1856. 
[Can any of our readers assist us to 
answer this enquiry ?] 
Dormant Elaterulce . — Many of the 
Elateridce have been taken by me under 
the stones above-mentioned : they appear 
when I find them in a dormant state, but 
they quickly revive when they have been 
a short time iD the pocket,. — I bid. 
MISCELLANEA. 
Notes and Queries, by J. 0. West- 
wood, Esq. 
1. Throughout the winter months the 
ends of rose twigs, which in the preceding 
year have been injured, may occasionally 
be observed to be bored with a minute 
hole, as though they had been pricked by 
a pin’s point. On carefully splitting the 
end of the twig, it will be found that, be- 
neath this little hole, the pith has been 
bored into, and at the bottom of the 
burrow there lies a little black Lepido- 
pterous (I suppose Tortricideous) larva, 
enveloped in a white silken cocoon, and 
which had carefully closed the aperture 
at the top of the twig. Is this larva full- 
grown ? or does it subsequently quit 
its enveloping cocoon, and recommence 
feeding? Does it feed on the leaves or 
in the pith? To what moth is it trans- 
formed ? 
[We are not acquainted with this larva ; 
it may be that which feeds in the hips.] 
2. In the middle of the month of May 
the young twigs of the ash may be ob- 
served to be marked with a narrow, tor- 
tuous, dirty pale brownish line, along the 
course of which an occasional hole, as 
big as a pin-hole, may be seen. This 
pale line conceals a burrow beneath the 
bark, containing a small dirty green Lepi- 
dopterous larva. I should be glad to 
learn the name of the species. 
[Prays Curtisellus.~\ 
3. The larvae of Porrectaria Laricella 
eat the whole of the parenchyma in the 
apical half of the larch leaves, making a 
small round hole near the middle. Has 
this been effected before they made their 
silken cases, or do they quit their cases, 
leaving them at the mouth of their bur- 
rows ? It is known that some Porrectaria 
larvae quit their cases occasionally, but 
so fin - , I believe, as hitherto observed, it 
is only when they want to increase the 
