THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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Emmelesia ericetaria, 
„ toeniaria, 
Sciapliila bellana. 
— W. Greenip, Keswick, Cumberland; 
August 9, 1856. 
Larva of Peronea Cristana. — This 
larva has hitherto eluded the search (if 
search has been made) of every collector. 
While speaking to Mr. Logan last 
Saturday week respecting the clue the 
external appearance of the perfect in- 
sects among the Tortricidae offered in 
determining their food, it struck me that 
the larvae of Peronea cristana were either 
moss or lichen-feeders ; and upon subse- 
quent reflection I am not disposed to 
alter my opinion : at any rate it is worth 
the search for them among the moss and 
lichens of the old whitethorn and oak 
trees in their several habitats, and, per- 
haps if the thing searched for is not 
found, something new may be. Mr. 
Logan bad bred Coccyx splendidulana 
from the green moss on trees. — R. 
Shield, Leith Walk , Edinburgh; 
August 12, 1856. 
[Twenty years ago the general idea 
was that the “button” larvae fed on 
lichens, but we never heard that any one 
established whether the idea was correct 
or not.] 
How the Post-office breaks our boxes . — 
A lady staying here lately, who is con- 
nected with one of the London receiving 
houses, tells me that the men who collect 
the letters, if the bag happens to be 
pretty full, jump upon them and push 
them in with their feet. — Arthur 
Naish, Bristol ; August 9, 1856. 
Hint to Oxonians. — Would that some 
enterprising entomologist would explore 
the country round Oxford. It seems 
full of insects. I saw the other day two 
specimens of Aporia Cratcegi, and one of 
Aclierontia Atropos. — E. G. C. 
Midgrave Woods, Whitby. — Should 
this meet the eye of the entomologist 
who was hunting after Lepidoptera in 
our neighbourhood, would he have the 
kindness to inform me what species it 
was he wanted to take in the above- 
named locality, also what time it was 
out ; as I have little time to search, he 
would be conferring a real kindness on 
me. The parties of whom he was en- 
quiring for a net told me the circum- 
stance. — John Brain, Sleight’s Bndge, 
Whitby ; August 15, 1856. 
Colias Edusa. — A specimen was seen 
at Andover the other day by an entomo- 
logical friend, whose ardour has nearly 
evaporated. — H. T. Stainton; August 
16, 1856. 
Edusa at Forest Hill. — While riding 
in the train last Wednesday on the 
Brighton line I saw two specimens of 
Colias Edusa flying on the bank : I 
therefore got out at the next station, 
Forest Hill, returned to the place and 
caught them both, but could not find 
any more : they were in excellent condi- 
tion, and could not have long emerged 
from the pupa. — Charles G. Barrett, 
37, Park Street, Mile End ; August 18, 
1856. 
Great Gathering of Phcedon Vitellince 
(Col.). — On Wednesday, the 13tb, at 
6.30 p. m., the hour of Mr. Stainton’s 
levee at the finger-post, I was wending 
my way quietly along a tributary lane in 
company with Mr. Douglas and some 
minor luminaries in entomological 
science, when I espied a twig of aspen, 
the leaves of which were so loaded with 
Phcedon Vitellince as to give it a most 
abnormal brilliancy. One tap of the 
beating-stick produced a shower of these 
living gems : the net was thickly studded 
with them; no less than four hundred 
and eighty were bottled, and I believe 
full as many were turned adrift. Mr. 
Douglas and I have often thrashed the 
same hedges, in the same lane, at the 
same time, and with the same weapons, 
and I cannot recollect having seen a 
single Phcedon previously taken there. 
This occasional abundance of a species 
in localities where it had not been ob- 
