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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Wockeella. I have found on the birch a 
long case something like that of C.limio- 
sipennella, and on the Rhanmus fran- 
gula a case with curious appendages 
something in the style of the nut-feeding 
Fuscedinella cases. — J. Jenner Weir, 
Pembury Green ; June 24, 1856. 
Captures of Lepidoplera in Scotland. 
— I met with Bolys decrepitalis in Amal 
Forest, north of Ross-shire, at the begin- 
ning of this month : this is about six 
miles from the place where I first found 
it: it was very local, and I only found it 
amongst Vaccinium and brakes. Had 
the weather been favourable I might 
have taken a good many of them, but 
they were much injured by the high 
wind. I also met with R. Erxlebella at 
the end of May among birches. Pro- 
nubella and Chalybe pyrausta 1 could not 
find. — E. C. Buxton, 26, South King 
Street , Manchester ; June 17, 1856. 
Larva in the Rush. — I have bred what 
was expected to be Thrasonella : such a 
beauty, in the shape of Bactra Lanceo- 
lana ! — John Scott, South Stockton, 
Stockton-on-Tees ; June 18, 1856. 
Coleophora of the Thistle. — In the 
autumn of 1850 T found several cases of 
a Coleophora on thistles ; hut as I kept 
them in the house of course I did not 
succeed in rearing them : they were, to 
the best of my recollection, as I neg- 
lected to make any description of them, 
elongate, straight and smooth, without 
any protuberances, dark grey, almost 
black, and perhaps should have lived 
through the winter and fed again in the 
spring. — R. F. Logan, Duddingston, 
Edinbro’ ; June 17, 1856. 
Hypercallia Christiernana (Lep.) bred. 
— I now briefly communicate to you an 
observation which will interest you, and 
probably give rise to a paragraph in the 
‘ Intelligencer:’ it concerns the discovery 
of the larva of Hypercallia Christiernana; 
I have this morning bred the first speci- 
men ! On the 4th of June I made an 
excursion with Herr Bremi to a woody 
part of the Uetliberg, in order to seek 
there for the Elachista larva of the Ses- 
leria. Towards the end of our excursion 
Herr Bremi showed me a singular green 
pupa which he had found fastened to 
the under side of a leaf of Polygala 
Chamaebuxus : I examined it critically ; 
it appeared something like a large pupa 
of Anchinia Verrucella, only green, yet 
with the prolongation in front longer . I 
could not conceive whatever it could be. 
Some days later I was in a similar loca- 
lity, when suddenly I again fell in with 
this singular pupa : an Anchinia it could 
not be, since, except Verrucella, no other 
occurs near Zurich. All at once I recol- 
lected that exactly at this place II. 
Christiernana was accustomed to fly, and 
that the genus Hypercallia was nearly 
allied to Anchinia : I now sought on the 
Polygala Chamaebuxus, and had soon 
some larvse and pupae ; the larva lives in 
the united leaves at the end of the shoot, 
and is easily seen ; the pupa is always 
placed on the under side of the leaf : the 
larva is not lively : shortly before it 
changes the head and prolhorax are yel- 
lowish, the body is of a dull red-brown 
ground colour, with three broad whitish 
lines along the back, and a finer whitish 
line on each side; the spots are black, 
surrounded with white: when younger 
the larva is pale green, with broad brown 
lateral stripes : it appears to remain in 
the pupa state three weeks. If Polygala 
Chamaebuxus occurs near London you 
should yet be able to find the larva. — H. 
F rev, Zurich ; June 18, 1856. 
[Polygala Chamaebuxus is not a 
British plant, hut the inference would be 
very strong that here II. Christiernana 
would feed upon Polygala vulgaris; at 
any rate that plant should be well 
searched in the known Christiernana lo- 
calities.] 
To the lovers of the sublime. — As many 
of your readers may possibly retreat on 
the approach of a thunder storm, I wish 
to observe that it is just the time when 
