THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCEE. 
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TO COERESPONDENTS. 
G. F. M. — We are quite out of the 
Heiniptera Catalogue : we have written 
for a fresh supply, and expect them in 
the course of the summer. As soon as 
they reach us we will announce their 
arrival. 
CAPTURES. 
Lepidoptera. 
Anthocharis Cardamines. — During the 
past week 1 have taken six fine specimens 
of Vanessa Polychloros and one of Antho- 
charis Cardamines. The former are very 
abundant, but it is the first I have seen 
of the latter this year. I have lately 
bred specimens of Smerinlhus Populi, 
Sphinx Liguslri and Pygcera Bucephala. 
— S. W. Smith, jun,, Beaumont Villa., 
Northampton. 
Psyche Fusca. — While collecting, with 
Mr. Cribb, in the neighbourhood of 
Hampstead, on the 29lh of last month, 
I found two cases of Psyche Fusca upon 
Anemone; and yesterday we again found 
several more. — A. D. Taylor, 4, Camp- 
bell Street, Hall Park, Maida Hill; 
May 7. 
Aleucis Pictaria. — In Epping Forest, 
on the 22nd of April, I and a friend 
took twelve specimens of this insect. I 
believe this to be a new locality so near 
London. — Thomas Eedle, 9, Maidstone 
Place, Goldsmiths’ Row, Hackney Road ; 
May 1. 
Adela Cuprella. — Yesterday I had the 
pleasure of capturing fifteen males and 
one female of this beautiful species, 
flying round sallow-blossoms on Wim- 
bledon Common. I saw as many more, 
but was unable to take them, owing to 
the high wind. — C. Healy, 74, Napier 
Street, Hoxton, N. ; May 3. 
Coleophora Larvce. — I found larvae of 
Coleophora albitarsella rather common, 
on the leaves of ground-ivy, at Low 
Layton. In the same lane is also to be 
found Coleophora lineolea, more common 
than I ever saw them before, as many as 
eight or nine feeding on one leaf. I 
will send the last-named insect to any 
entomologists wanting it who will pay 
postage and send boxes. — T. Eedle, 
9, Maidstone Place, Goldsmiths’ Row, 
Hackney Road; May 1. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Ptinus germanus. — On the 29th of 
April I was fortunate enough to obtain a 
series of this fine insect (a triton amongst 
the minnows, his congeners) from an old 
stump near Pnrfleet, Essex. The day 
being excessively hot, and having more 
than sufiSciently tried my back and torn 
my nails by turning over chalk and sharp 
flints in a pit near the railway station 
(where I took Pterostichus ruficollis, Har- 
palus tardus, azureus, crihellum, &c.), I 
looked about for more sedentary col- 
lecting, and soon found a likely piece of 
wood (in fact, an ancient gate post), 
about which a very elegantly variegated 
species of bug {Rhyparachromus poda- 
grictts, Steph. ?) was actively coursing in 
the sunshine (here I may note that I 
have found the same insect “ testivating” 
under damp stones at Gravesend in the 
hottest part of the season). After several 
vain dabs with a wet finger, and partial 
captures of fractional specimens, — for, like 
other racers, their limbs were very deli- 
cate, — my bark-knife laid open a crack in 
the stump, wherein appeared two or three 
of the bug, somewhat torpid, and one 
Ptinus germanus. “Upon this hint I” 
(spake not, but) acted, and by carefully 
scraping and examining cracks and sur- 
face (for the body of the post was loo 
hard even for Ptinus larva) found several 
examples, many of which were compactly 
tucked up in little cocoons of agglutinized 
wood-dust, but no pupae came under my 
