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Treitschkiella is black , whereas in Pfeif- 
ferella the head is pale brown, a differ- 
ence very evident when the blotched leaf 
is held up to the light. — I bid. 
Vanessa Polychloros. — This was rather 
common about here last year, and will, 1 
think, very likely be so again this year. 
T have found several pupae, and I know 
of others who have found them rather 
abundantly during the last week or two. 
— F. H. F., Eton ; July 4, 1856. 
Larva of Tinea bistrigella. — I have 
been collecting these larvae this morn- 
ing; many have already cut out their 
cases and gone, but some may still be 
found in their blotches, and more maybe 
met with in their long galleries, galleries 
so long and so thin that the eye that has 
once made acquaintance with them will 
not easily forget their peculiar appear- 
ance ; they are invariably near the end 
of the shoot of the birch twig, and though 
rarely in the terminal leaf, are like the 
clever school-boy whose class consisted 
at most of three, or sometimes only two, 
“ top but two,” or “ top but one,” just as 
it may happen. Has Tinea argentima- 
culella a similar habit ; if so, what does 
it feed on ? And what is it that cuts out 
cases in the alder leaves? — H. T. Stain- 
ton; St. Swithin’s, July 15, 1856. 
Capture of Tinea Merdella. — On the 
Uth inst., and again to-day, I have 
taken a number of specimens of this spe- 
cies in a wool warehouse : the room con- 
tains wool from Naples, Trieste, Peru, 
and Australia, and they may have been 
imported from any of these places in the 
larva state : but who is to prove it ? I 
believe they have bred in the room, and 
therefore claim a place in the British 
list for the species, as I think it has just 
as much right there as some other species 
taken in and about warehouses. I 
strongly suspect that Merdella is a very 
common species in the foreign wool 
warehouses of Liverpool, London, and 
the- manufacturing districts. — Nicholas 
Cooke, Liverpool ; July 14, 1856. 
Captures of Lepidoptera near Holywell. 
— This season I have taken Abraxas Ul- 
maria in great abundance through the 
district of Holywell. Also Pamphila 
sylvanus, P. comma , Thanaos Tayes, An- 
throeera Trifolii, and Fidonia piniaria, 
in plenty. — F. Abchek, Glyn Abbot, 
Holywell; July 4, 1856. 
Hyponomeuta Irrorellus. — I am again 
breeding this insect ; and if any one still 
wants it I shall be happy to hear from 
him. — W. Kirby, South Street, Wands- 
worth, Surrey ; July 14, 1856. 
Agrolis Ashworthii, Cataleuca, and 
Lupernia furva bred. — From the pupae 
taken June 28th to 30th (see ‘Intelli- 
gencer,’ p. 115) these three species have 
appeared on the 10th, 12th, and 13th of 
this month. On the 10th July I took 
Gelechia politella at Llanferris, and Mrs. 
Gregson secured, what I had been a 
week looking for, the cognaria form of 
Eupithecia subfulvaria. The weather 
was wet; I sugared for A. Ashivorthii 
without success, but a party there took it 
there ; they went up the mountain after 
we had given up for the night, and, if I 
am correctly infurmed, found it sipping 
the sweets on a fir tree at midnight. — C. 
S. Gregson, Stanley, Lancashire ; July 
13, 1856. 
The original Drepana Sicula. — Pre- 
vious to the recent capture of this insect 
recorded in your pages I believe the only 
British specimen of Sicula existing was 
one taken by myself in the middle of 
July, either in 1837 or 1838, in the same 
locality mentioned by your correspon- 
dent, the Leigh Woods at Clifton. On 
my leaving Somersetshire for London it 
was given by me to my friend the Rev. 
Henry Burney, of Wavendon, and it is, 
I believe, still in his collection. — Robt. 
Mitford, Haverstoc/c Place, Hamp- 
stead; July 7, 1856. 
Should the '■Intelligencer' hybemate 
during the winter P — I quite agree with 
your correspondent, Mr. C. E. Bridges, 
that the discontinuance of the ‘ Intelli- 
