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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
size of their abode by cutting off a bit of 
the dried surface of the leaf and adding 
it to the outside of their case, that they 
adopt this course. 
[Some Coleophora larvae, as, for in- 
stance, lixella, leave their cases at the 
mouth of their burrow, and proceed inside 
the leaf an inch or more.] 
4. In the last note I have employed 
Haworth’s generic name Porrectaria, con- 
sidering that it is both highly expressive, 
and possessing a lon<r priority over that 
of Coleophora , with which it appears to 
be perfectly identical, and consequently 
that, by all the rules of zoological no- 
menclature, it ought to be used. I am, 
in fact, afraid that a good many of the 
generic names recently adopted will not 
bear the test of an enquiry in this point 
of view. — J. O. W. ; May , 1856. 
[Haworth’s genus Porrectaria includes 
our Butaiis and several other things, and 
is by no means identical with our Coleo- 
phora i.] 
Why do Wasps frequent the 
Flowers of Scrophulakia aquatica? 
— On the Old Storrage, and not far from 
the ruins of the Bower, several plants of 
Scrophularia aquatica were observed by 
us with some curiosity, almost every 
flower having a wasp regularly upon its 
contents. It is remarkable that this is 
almost the ouly plant that wasps show 
any partiality for, or seem to get anything 
from ; but what they obtain from the dull- 
looking, foetid-smelling blossom so stimu- 
lating to their waspish natures is not 
exactly ascertained. Dr. Lindley, indeed, 
says that the leaves and roots of Scro- 
phularia are “ purgative and emetic;” so 
perhaps some “ hygeist” among the wasps 
may have suggested their use of the 
secretion in the flowers as an equivalent 
to Morrison’s pills ! — Edwin Lees 1 Pic- 
tures of Nature roand Malvern. 
Highoate Literary and Scientific 
Institution.— A local Museum of En- 
tomology is being formed at this flourish- 
ing Institution. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TINEINA 
I wish now to direct the attention of 
two or three hundred pairs of eyes to a 
plant called JEgopodium podagraria 
(Gout-weed): it is one of the Umbelli- 
ferce i it is not yet in flower. It grows 
in moist shady places, liking the damp 
hollows of woods. The leaf-stems will, 
in some instances, be observed not to be 
expanding regularly, but to be contorted 
or “ crumpled up.” The cause of this 
crumpling up is a very innocent-looking, 
rather sticky-lookinsr, caterpillar, that of 
Chaubodus 1 lligerellus, which, unlike its 
gregarious congener Cheerophyllellus, is 
generally a solitary liver, only one oc- 
curring on a single stem, though other 
stems at no remote distances will also be 
found tenanted by the same species of 
larva:. I hope some of my readers will 
be able to send me this larva before the 
close of the present month. 
Cerostoma nemorella . — T am no longer 
in want of this larva, having received 
samples from Herr Schmid, along with 
larvae of Tinea vinculella and mines of 
the Genisto-feeding Lithocolletis Frax i- 
nella. — H. T. Stainton ; May, 22, 1856. 
Just published, price 5s., 
A NEW FLORA of the netobour- 
hood OF REIGATE, SURREY: 
Containing the Names, Localities, 
Time of Flowering, &c., of till the 
known Flowering Plants and Ferns 
of the district, comprising upwards of 
Eight Hundred Species. Also a list of 
the Mosses of the Neighbourhood, with 
a Map of the District. 
To which is added, in the form of an 
Appendix, lists of the Fauna of the 
Neighbourhood, in the following orders: 
— Mammalia, Biros, Reptiles, Fishes, 
Coleoptera, and Lepiiioptkra. 
By James Alexander Brewer, 
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Local Secretary of the Botanical Society 
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dlesex. — Saturday, May id, 1880. 
