THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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now in the fall blaze of their activity, 
and Adelcc by day, and Nemophorce at 
evening, twiddle their long horns grace- 
fully. A shoal of Elachistce, Lithocolle- 
tes and Nepticulce, may be found on any 
respectable paling if it only blows suffi- 
ciently ; for as the collector observes, 
after filling all his boxes from a fence 
some windy day in June, “it is an ill 
wind that blows nobody any good.’’ 
Coleopteba. By J. W. Douglas. 
While the whitethorn is in bloom I 
should like to call attention to it : such 
hosts of insects are attached to the blos- 
soms that it is likely, if a little time be 
devoted to them, that some good species 
w'ould be detected, more particulary if in 
the neighbourhood of old trees. In 
Richmond Park I once beat an Ischno- 
meru flavicollis , and Tetrops prceusla was 
in profusion. Another tree, the Moun- 
tain Ash, is now' in full bloom, and to 
its sweet flowers many insects come : 
Mr. Stevens beat from them Rliynchites 
cupreus and Necydalis minor at Black 
Park some years ago. 
Tlioughout Stephens’ ‘ Manual,’ 
“under bark” occurs continually as the 
habitat of species of beetles : felled trees 
are perhaps the most prolific, and if you 
can get an old oak which has escaped 
the peeling process, you are sure to be 
rewarded with a greater abundance, both 
in specimens and species, than in any 
other tree. But in old standing trees of 
all kinds the bark is often loose in places, 
and when it is not dry you may generally 
find something underneath, occasionally 
a rarity ; in fact, until you try yon never 
know what may be there. Nitidula, 
Corticaria, Phloiophilus, Ips, Synchita , 
Cerylon , Rhyzophayus, Cucnjus, Den- 
drophilus , Platysoma, Eryx , Hypulus 
and Hypophlceus , are among the genera 
whose species dwell under bark. There 
are so few old trees near London, that it 
is to collectors who can get to old woods 
and forests that we have to look for spe- 
cimens of wood-eating insects, which are 
generally scarcer in collections than spe- 
cies whose habitat is more on the sur- 
face. There is one insect, however, that 
is probably to be found within the Lon- 
don district, as it used to be taken at 
Coombe Wood in old broom-stumps 
under the bark; I mean Cucujus Sparlii. 
If any one knows where such stumps are 
to met with, this rare insect might pro- 
bably he discovered. — J. W. D. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TINEINA. 
N.B. No Coleophora serenella and no 
Chauliodus Illigerellus have yet reached 
me. 
The season has hitherto been so back- 
ward, and the weather so unfavourable, 
that we do not seem fairly to have opened 
the campaign yet. May larvae no doubt 
have been and are feeding, though we 
have not been able to get out and look 
after them. 
Should not some one be able to find 
the larva of Coleophora niveicoslella P the 
insect is constantly taken at Mickleham 
and Headley Lane by every collector who 
goes there: cannot some one find the 
larva ? What does it feed on ? That is 
a question I cannot yet answer ; its food 
has yet to be determined, but till the 
horse -shoe vetch ( Hippocrepis comosa) 
has yet been thoroughly examined, we 
cannot say that it does not feed on that. 
Then again, where does Cleodora cy- 
tisella feed? C. striatella is known to 
feed in the stems of the tansy (and no 
doubt a rare lot of tansy stems have been 
collected with the view of breediug it), 
and there is a strong inference that 
cytisella should be found in the stems of 
the common fern ( Ptens aquilina). 
I wonder if any Bristol entomologist 
is energetic, and skilful enough to be 
able to find the larva of Rdslerstammia 
Erxlehella feeding on the leaves of the 
lime trees in Leigh Wood? 
