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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Some of our readers may have fared 
better with their eggs.] 
Trochilium Chrysidifortne. — I cap- 
tured a nice specimen of this fine sphinx 
near Folkestone, hovering over an Eehium 
plant, about noon, on the 18th inst. I 
swept the cliffs and slopes for nearly a 
week, working eight hours daily without 
obtaining another. — John Hunter, 24, 
Bloomsbury Street; July 29, 1856. 
Spilodes palealis (Lep.). — On the same 
slope where Chrysidiforme gladdened my 
eyes, I took a specimen of this scarce 
moth on the 26lh inst. : this is, I am 
told, the fourth British specimen. — Ibid. 
Cucullia Chamomillee. — The appear- 
ance of this species is very uncertain. 
Last week myself and friend captured 
some specimens at dusk: they fly from 
flower to flower, and conduct themselves 
a la stellatarum ! Their proper time for 
appearing is warm weather, in April and 
May, but they have come forth from the 
pupae so early as January, and now 
taken on the 28th of July, which is a 
very long time for the period of a flight, 
particularly as this species is rather a 
scarce one. I do not think this insect is 
double-brooded, because all the speci- 
mens which I have reared came forth in 
the last half of April and the first half of 
May, and because we never And a second 
brood of larvae. I consider these to be 
captured out of their time, — exceptional 
ones, and that this insect is susceptible, 
perhaps, to atmospheric changes. — J. J. 
Reading, Plymouth; July 29, 1856. 
Ennomos illustraria. — I am now 
breeding the second brood of Enno- 
mos illustraria, and have larvae of the 
same brood, produced from the same 
female, only half-grown : the larvae have 
all had the same treatment. — I bid. 
Cossonus Tardii. — 1 succeeded in 
taking upwards of a dozen of this insect 
yesterday. — Tbid. 
Bred. — Within the last fortnight I 
have bred four female specimens of La- 
verna conlurbalclla from black larv® I 
took spun up in the tops of the Epilo- 
bium angustifolium growing on Box 
Hill. The larva spins up in the top of 
the plant, similar to many of the Tortrix 
larvae. I have also taken a number of Le- 
pidopterous larvae mining in the leaves of 
the plant named. Are they likely to pro- 
duce a second brood of Lavema Rasch- 
kiella P as I took a beautifully flue 
specimen at the same time. Or are they 
likely to turn out another new species? 
The larvae w'ere full-fed when I took 
them, and they have since made a 
whitish case outside the leaf, and are 
now, I suppose, in pupa. — F. O. Stand- 
ISH, 2, Alfred Cottages , Warner Road , 
Camberwell , July 28, 1856. 
A Rarity. — I took a magnificent spe- 
cimen of Coleophora eonspicuella in 
Headley Lane, on the 20th inst. — Ibid. 
Retinia Sylveslrana. — I have bred a 
fine series of this much-wanted insect, 
from larvae 1 took feeding in the young 
shoots of the stone pine ( Pinus pinea ). — 
Ibid. 
Cabera rotundaria. — I have bred a 
good series of this insect, which is un- 
doubtedly a species ; although a smaller 
insect than C. pusaria, the wings are 
rounder and fuller, and the two lines 
near the base of the wing are much 
closer together than in C. pusaria. I 
have a specimen or two that vary in the 
lines, but still they are readily dis- 
tinguished from the common White- 
wave. — Ibid. 
MISCELLANEA. 
Important Meeting of the House 
of Tine.®. 
On the 22nd inst. this house met ; 
Tapetzella ou the wool-sack. 
Granella wished to call the attention 
of their molhships’ house to a report 
which had reached him through the or- 
dinary channels of communication, that 
