THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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G. S., St. Helens.— We do not know 
a larva mining the stems of Artemisia : 
a Dipterous larva is very common in the 
leaves, but it does not make inflated 
bladdery mines like G. omissetla. 
J. 0. W. — Tortrix of Wheat-leaves . — 
Any practical collector will tell you that 
a vast number of the Tortricidae spin up 
anywhere, and may constantly be found 
on plants on which they have not fed. 
Your pupa skins may belong to a Scia- 
phila or Penthina, &c., &c. 
W. H., Gravesend. — Tr^/it-fitting 
boxes do excellently to keep insects in ; 
many prefer them to cabinets: keep 
them supplied with camphor. Butter- 
flies are often pinned to show the under 
side; moths always to show the upper 
side. 
A. K. — Your Fungus-feeders are Cis 
Boleti. If you wish small beetles to 
travel safely by post, enclose them in a 
quill ! beetles as big as cockchafers can- 
not be sent in quills. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
A Sip at the Sugar in the Forest of 
Here. — Last night (June 23rd), having 
been the first really good night for sugar- 
ing in these parts, a list of my captures 
may be interesting to some and stimula- 
ting to others of your readers. I started 
at half-past eight, and sugared right on 
to half-past nine; and as I jog-trotted 
between the trees the distance must have 
been somewhere about three miles, all 
forest, in which space I should think that 
full 300 trees received sweet attentions 
at my hands: on the way my net snapped 
up Botys lancealis, and as it got dark 
Metrocampa margaritaria, Tephrosia 
punctularia, and a few common things. 
At sugar I took the following : — 
Apatela leporina, 
Diphthera Orion, 
Leucania comma, 
Xylophasia hepatica, 
Rusina tenebrosa, 
Noctua festiva, 
„ brunnea, 
„ triangulum, 
„ C-nigrum, 
Hadena adusta, 
„ thalassina, 
„ coutigua, 
Aplecta tincta, 
„ herbida, 
Euplexia lucipara, 
Thyatira batis, 
Heliothis marginata, 
Erastria fuscula, 
besides hosts of commoner species. Mr. 
Crewe too, who is staying with me, re- 
turned home not ill-pleased with his 
night’s sport. He took a different road 
from mine into the forest, hoping to come 
across a late specimen or two of Hadena 
Genistas to complete his series: it has, 
however, been very chary of itself this 
season, and did not last night affect its 
accustomed haunts ; neither did he meet 
with Leporina or Orion ; but, partly to 
make up for this, he took five Ileliolhis 
marginata, (whereas I only took three), 
and two Neuria Saponarice ; the two 
last-named species being new to my local 
list. He also took, besides several 
already named, Acronycta Ligustri at 
sugar, &c., &c. In the morning I had 
obtained A.villica ; and as I was coming 
home from a twelve miles’ ride detected a 
nest of Vanessa polychloros on a high 
sallow tree, which yielded me sixty-five 
half-fed larvae ; and on my return from 
sugaring I was pleased to find the first 
of some Cucullia Asteris, which I ob- 
tained last autumn, just out of the pupa. 
I am not yet quite such an old hand as 
to take such a day’s doings all serenely 
as a thing of course, and fear, that for 
the moment, I felt myself to be, as the 
Latin Grammar has it, “ Haud ulli vete- 
rurn virtute secundus.” It is needless to 
add that my slumbers were disturbed by 
no ghost (of a) moth. — William Henry 
