THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE!!. 
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
W. B. — Erebia Blandina is in many 
books called Hipparchia Blandina , or 
the Scotch Ringlet. 
Young Kent. — Y our fly is very com- 
mon, and nothing peculiar: we are not 
fly-learned enough to know its name, but 
will endeavour to ascertain. 
A School Boy Entomologist must 
confide us his name before we answer his 
enquiry. We shall not eat him, so he 
needn’t be afraid. We have many 
school - boy correspondents who write 
their own letters. 
W. T., Junr. — Dead moths and dead 
pupae are frequently clothed with a fun- 
goid development. 
W. F., Wateringbury. — We cannot 
recognise your larva from description : it 
hardly appears to be G. quercifolia. 
H. W. B. — Your beetle is Typhieus 
vulgaris ; you will find it figured at 
Plate 43 of Spry and Shuckard’s ‘ British 
Coleoptera Delineated.’ 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
Micropteryx Salopiella (Lep.), no 
longer at home at Shreivsbury. — I regret 
to say that I have searched in vain for 
M. Salopiella, and I fear that the felling 
of the birches which it used to frequent, 
has quite extinguished the insect in this 
part. — G. M. Salt, Shrewsbury; May 
20, 1856. 
Duplicate Lepidoptera. — I have dupli- 
cates of the following: — 
Argynnis Aglaia, 
„ Adippe, 
Smerintlius Tilite, 
„ ocellatus, 
Sphinx Ligustri, 
Lasiocampa Trifolii, 
and am in want of the following: — 
Melitnea Cinxia, 
Colias Edusa, 
„ Hyale, 
Hipparchus papilionarius, 
Hemithea vernaria. 
— F. Meyer, 17, Band Street , St. Mary's 
Square , Birmingham ; May 1 7, 1 856. 
Hyponomeuta vigintipunctatus (Lep. 
Tin.). — I caught a specimen of this in- 
sect here last evening, in a bushy place 
amongst oaks. — P. H. Newnham, Stoke 
Road, Guildford ; May 21, 1856. 
I notice a typographical error at p. 4 
of Mr. Shield’s ‘ Practical Hints,’ Micro 
being put instead of Macro : perhaps it 
would be as well to mention this in your 
next ‘Intelligencer.’ — T. Chapman, 
Glasgow; May 24, 1856. 
C/trysophanus dispar (Lep.) in Staf- 
fordshire. — A county is rather an exten- 
sive locality ; but the place where the 
butterfly was taken my friend did not let 
me know, as he wished to try the place 
for it this season for his own cabinet, and 
also for that of a friend : last season he 
only captured two specimens. It is any 
thing but pleasant to be criticised when 
I did my best to please (as I thought). — 
R. Weaver, Rugeley ; May 24, 1856. 
Gaslropacha ilicifolia (Lep.). — Five 
specimens have been taken this year on 
Cannoch Chase; two in the chrysalis by 
H. Boyle, Esq., about the middle of 
April, and three perfect insects by my- 
self, two on the 16th and one on the 20th 
iust.; they were hanging on the under 
side of sprigs of heather ; they were all 
taken close by the spot where I took the 
two last year. — Arthur W. Partridge, 
at Rugeley Vicarage, Staffordshire ; May 
24, 1856. 
Speranza conspicuaria. — On Friday 
last I was hunting after this species, 
which I am sorry to say is much scarcer 
than it used to be, in consequence of a 
great deal of the broom being destroyed. 
It will probably soon become extinct, 
