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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
notice, though the larvoc, apparently full 
grown, were gnawing away violently. 
The females seemed all quiescent, but 
quite hard, while the long-horned males 
were ready for flight, many of them un- 
furling their expansive wings and running 
quickly when turned out of their hiding 
places. As a coup de grdce (for which I 
hope not to be stigmatized as a “ ra- 
vager”) I put my collecting-paper and 
waterproof kneeling-pad round the stump, 
and, with a large stone, rapped violently 
on the top — sundry ticking falls on my 
traps beneath showing that the specimens 
too bashful to come out on a first intro- 
duction were still polite enough to respond 
to a more urgent invitation. If this 
notice should meet the eye of the very 
respectable and clerical-looking old gen- 
tleman, white as to his “ choker,” who 
appeared at a loss to understand the 
comfort which I derived from a periodical 
inspection of a little bottle, iu the rail- 
way carriage, on my return to town, he 
will please to understand that I am not 
a hopeless lunatic, as he seemed to think 
at the time ; but that it is a custom 
among entomologists to derive gratifica- 
tion from the sight of good captures, and, 
as far as my experience goes, I have 
found that the older the collector the 
more he indulges in this harmless stimu- 
lant. My captures amounted to thirty, 
whereof one or two were broken ; but 
I fear I shall have none to give away, as 
nearly all are booked for numerous me- 
tropolitan co-Coleopterists. — E. C. Rye, 
284, King’s Road, Chelsea, S, IF. 
Hemiptera. 
Cydnus hicolor. — At Purfleet I was 
somewhat surprised to find Cydnus bi- 
color flying about and alighting on the 
hot paths like a Pcecilus or Amara, and 
should think the locality first rate for 
this order, as a correspondent writes me 
that he has taken Tv.lyra maura, AUia 
acuminata, Alydius calraratns and other 
good species there. — Iain. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
The Larva of Talerporia pseudo-bom- 
bycella carnivorous . — Last week I bred 
four females of Diplodoma marginepunc- 
tella ; having brought home a larva of 
Taleeporia pseudo-bombycella, I put it 
in a jar containing the females of 
Z). marginepunctella. Yesterday, upon 
my reaching the jar down for the pur- 
pose of taking the females out and gum- 
ming them to a piece of card, I found, 
to iny surprise, that the larva of 
T. pseudo-bombycella had eaten all four. 
I then put the larva and a dead Mi- 
cropteryx purpurella into a pill-box, and, 
upon opening the box in the afternoon, 
I found it had seized the dead Pur- 
purella with its jaws, and was eating iu 
— Charles Healy, 74, Napier Street, 
Hoxton, N . ; May 1. 
EXCHANGE. 
Drotvn-lail Larvae . — I have distributed 
some hundreds of the larvae of Porlhesia 
Chrysorrhcea, and still have plenty left 
for any one who wishes for them. Those 
who have not received a supply will 
please to understand that it is owing to 
their not having sent return postage with 
their boxes ; and those few who sent 
boxes unpaid will, I presume, have re- 
ceived them again from the Post Uflice, 
as they were refused here. — R. W . 
Wright, 4, Gloucester Terrace, Victoria 
Park Road, Hackney, N.E.; May 3. 
Duplicate Eggs. — 1 have eggs of 
Clostera Rcclusa and Sclenia lllustraria 
to dispose of, and shall be happy to 
receive eggs or larvie of many -spe- 
cies I do not possess. — II. II. Fre.mlix, 
Wateringbury, Kent. 
Hemiptera. 
Pyrrhocoris calmariensis . — Of this in- 
sect (the Cimex nplcrus of LinnaHis) 
