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THE ENTOMOLOGISTS WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
The larva of Plutella Dalellu should 
keep our northern friends who inhabit 
moorland localities on the look out; and 
those who reside amongst Genista line- 
toria ought to be wide awake for Coleo- 
phora vibicella, or does this species only 
occur in Trench Wood, Worcestershire, 
where Mr. Weaver met with it years ago. 
— H. T. Stainton; Map 28, 1856. 
MISCELLANEA. 
To the Editor of the ‘Intelligencer.' 
Si a, — 1 read, with much regret in the 
‘Intelligencer’ of the 17th May, a most 
unjust attack upon the Members of the 
Entomological Society, apparently by 
one of its own body: a few words of 
truth may serve to explain what I would 
fain hope to have arisen out of pure 
ignorance of the subject ; not, indeed, 
that even this is quite a sufficient excuse 
for the slander: a person should make 
himself well acquainted with circum- 
stances before he ventures to put forth 
statements detrimental to a body of gen- 
tlemen. In the first place, the Society 
never decided upon selling the Foreign 
Insects; the council felt themselves, with 
regret, bound to recommend the sale, 
but the Society has not acted upon that 
recommendation. The position is this: 
the Society is not in a condition to pay 
the sum necessary to secure the services 
of competent persons to arrange and 
name the collection ; and an unnamed 
one is next to useless ; therefore it has 
been thought advisable to sell the Foreign 
Insects, and with the proceeds of such 
sale to enlarge the library for the use of 
the Members: many valuable and ne- 
cessary works by these means would be 
secured for the use of the Society. 
The next paragraph I will not trust 
myself further in remarking upon, than 
to say, it is a gross mis-statement : the 
Society never advised Members to go 
abroad and collect, and in return, sold 
the very insects presented by its Mem- 
bers; circumstances may justify such a 
sale, but it would be made with regret, 
and not as the writer insinuates for the 
sake of a bargain. 
The Council of the Society is com- 
posed of gentlemen far above offering, 
through their estimable President, any 
disrespect to their Members as a body ; 
and in the recommendation emanating 
from the Council, a reservation was par- 
ticularly made as to the retention of all 
typical specimens. The reasons for the 
recommendation of the Council have 
been found, after mature deliberation, 
insurmountable, and, unless they be 
acted upon, the collection will gradually 
perish. It is quite evident that the 
writer of the letter signed M. E. S., 
knows little of the time, talent and 
labour, which would be required to put 
the Society’s collection into a creditable 
state of arrangement and classification. 
I trust that the readers of the ‘ Intel- 
ligencer’ will await the decision of the 
Society, after it is made acquainted with 
the reasons which induced the Council 
to recommend the sale of a portion of the 
Society’s collection, and not jump to any 
hasty conclusion condemnatory to gen- 
tlemen totally incapable of acting in the 
manner your correspondent has repre- 
sented them to have done. 
Your obedient Servant, 
A Member of Council. 
May 22nd. 
In answer to “ Notes and Queries” by 
J. O. W., No. 1 : — I have no doubt that 
the Tortricideous larva is the larva of 
“ Stigmonota Puncticostana : ” 1 have 
twice bred that pretty moth from similar 
twigs : I know not on what they fed 
previous to borrowing in the twig. — 
F'ukd. Bond, 84, Cavendish Road; May 
27, 1856. 
