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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
treat provided. After tbe meeting sepa- 
rated a number of entomologists met at 
the Dog and Partridge, Staleybridge, 
when Mr. T. Hague, the landlord, exhi- 
bited a large number of beautiful and 
rare insects, amongst which were Lilho- 
colletis Vacciniella and Nepticula Wea- 
veri, which he had succeeded in obtain- 
ing from a place near Staleybridge, 
known as the “ Brushes,” and which 
before this season were considered ex- 
clusively Scotch. He likewise exhibited 
about thirty of a new species bred by 
him from Vaccinium Vitis-Ideea. The 
new species is named by Mr. Gregson, of 
Liverpool, Coleophora Vitisella. The 
meeting this season has been exceed- 
ingly well attended. — Manchester 
Courier; June 2], 1856. 
Notes and Queries, by J. 0. West- 
wood, Esq. 
Pea larva. — Now that green peas are 
coming in it will be useful to examine 
the pods of any which have a suspicious 
appearance, as they inclose the larva of a 
Lepidopterous insect, which gnaws the 
pea inside. If any of your subscribers 
should be so fortunate as to find this 
larva I should be very much obliged to 
them for a specimen, as well as for the 
name of the perfect insect. 
The extract you recently gave from 
the letter of Edwin Lees on the ‘ Har- 
monies of Nature,’ which may be traced 
between insects and plants, presents mat- 
ter for deeper enquiry than at first ap- 
pears on the surface. In working out 
the lists of insects which infest the chief 
of our native trees, published in Loudon’s 
* Arboretum Britannicurn,’ I was inte- 
rested, but not surprised, to find that 
many of the insects which frequented trees 
belonging to the same natural order were 
very nearly related to each other, and I 
should think the enquiry, if applied to 
the Micro-Lepidoptera, would furnish 
good results on the relationships of allied 
species : in Nepticula for instance, are 
the species which feed upon allied plants 
belonging to different natural families? 
Of course a more minute examination of 
the structure of such Micro-Lepidoptera 
as becomes the subject of such an enquiry 
will be necessary than is usually made, 
something more being required to prove 
relationship than the possession of a bar 
across the wings, or a costal or apical 
spot. In a group of twenty species 
structural distinctions will also exist, and 
these alone will furnish the true tests of 
relationship. In cases, moreover, >vhere 
a species feeds upon several plants (I of 
course exclude the polyphagous or omni- 
vorous species), do the plants fed upon 
ever belong to different natural families? 
— J. 0. W. 
[The answer in our next.] 
Erratum. — At p. 84, bottom line of 
first column, for Argvle read Ayr. 
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