THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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Here also I may notice the excessive 
vitality of the hybernating females of 
Coleoptera in general, and the Rhyncho- 
phora in particular. Some Errirhinus 
scirpi and P. pollux appeared rather to 
like hydrocyanic acid (Scheele’s strength) 
than otherwise, and even boiling water is 
hardly enough to kill them ; possibly 
their nervous energy is concentrated into 
one part during hybernation, or the fact 
of their having an express duty to per- 
form in laying ova and perpetuating their 
species may endow them with additional 
vitality. The following are names of 
the species I found on carefully ex- 
amining the dirt and grass-roots brought 
home : — 
Steuus bimaculatus, 
... pallipes, 
... bupthalmus, 
Homalola circellaris, 
... incana, 
... nigella, 
... debilis, 
... elongatula, 
... graminicola, 
... analis, 
fungi, 
... longicornis, 
... pygmsea, 
Aleochara nitida, 
Trogophlseus elongatulus, 
... corticinus, 
Falagria obscura, 
Conurus pubescens, 
Myllaena intermedia, 
Gyrophsena lucidula, 
Oligota^tomaria, 
Ocyusa maura, 
Hypocyptus longicornis, 
Tachyporus brunneus, 
Lathrobium elongatum, 
... quadratum, 
... filiforme, 
... longulum, 
Philonthus micans (so called because 
it is dull-coloured, I suppose), 
Oxytelus depressus, 
Bryaxis sanguinea, 
Atomaria fumata (not in Waterli. Cat.), 
... rnesomelas, 
... atricapilla, 
Corticaria fuscata, 
Ptenidium ? 
Macrocnema afBnis (exoleta), 
Tanysphyrus lemnse, 
Dromius melanocephalus, 
Bembidium fumigatum, 
... assimile, 
and several other of the ordinary marsh 
species. I have lately taken there Stomis 
pumicatus (for the first time in that lo- 
cality), Cassida equestris and Bolitohius 
analis. — E. C. Rye, 284, King's Road, 
Chelsea, N. IT. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Endromis Versicolor. — A week ago a 
fine male E. Versicolor appeared in my 
breeding-cage, which I allowed to re- 
main, hoping to supply a mate. Yester- 
day a female emerged, whose wings were 
scarcely expanded ere union took place; 
the lady is now depositing her eggs. I 
had fortunately pushed forward some 
birches in pots, which are nicely ready 
for the young larvte when they appear. — 
George Gascoyne, Newark ; March 30. 
Aleucis Pictaria bred. — On the 21st of 
this month I had a fine male out in my 
breeding-cage, which has been in my 
garden all the winter. I believe it has 
been stated that some difficulty is ex- 
perienced in feeding up the larvae, unless 
the food is obtained from Dariford Heath ; 
it was quite the reverse with the few I 
had, which fed freely on sloe, got close 
by here. — F. 0. Standish, 2, Alfred Cot- 
tages, Warner Road, Camberwell, S, ; 
March, 1860. 
Coleophora Saturatella bred. — Last 
year I bred a fine series of this beautiful 
species from cases found on Cytisus 
scoparius about June. The Coleophora 
on the heather is now beginning to make 
its appearance. — Inio. 
