THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
45 
I shall be happy to forward twelve spe- 
cimens to any entomologist, in return 
for twelve postage-stamps. It is a most 
beautiful species. — G. King, 85, Loiver 
Union Street, Torquay ; May 7. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 
TINEINA. 
Depeessaeia Lib-vnotidella. 
The egg of this species is no doubt 
deposited in the spring by the hybernated 
female, at least I conclude so from the 
late appearance of the larvo3, for it is not 
till the month of July that they are to 
be met with. The larvae commence by 
rolling up the leaves in a tubular form, 
but afterwards they retire to the umbels, 
which they contort by fastening them 
together with silk, but each larva con- 
structs a silken tube, open at each end, 
for its own especial protection ; some- 
tims as many as seven or eight larvae 
occur in one umbel. The larva is full 
fed towards the middle or end of August, 
and then it generally descends to the 
surface of the earth', where it constructs 
a whitish cocoon, and then undergoes its 
change to the pupa state; sometime.s, 
though rarely, the transformation takes 
place in the umbel. In the month of 
September the perfect insect makes its 
appearance. 
H. T. Stainton. 
INSECT TICKETS. 
To the Editor of the * Intelligencer ' 
Sir, — Will you permit me, if the sub- 
ject is not exhausted, to mention a plan, 
■ which may perhaps recommend itself as 
embodying many of the different sug- 
gestions which have appeared in your 
columns ? 
Might not two sets of tickets be used 
— the one to register the history and 
locality of each insect, the other to indi- 
cate its specific name? 
What I wish to propose is that the 
two operations be kept distinct. Let the 
insect be registered on the system ad- 
vocated at pp. 173 and 191 of vol. vii., 
beginning each fresh thousand by placing 
at the top of the label an A, B, C, or 
1,2, 3, &c. This will leave room below 
for the initials of the collector or of the 
locality; or those of the locality might 
be put on the reverse side. It would 
be an additional advantage if, upon 
changing his ground, the collector were 
to use a different colour; this he could 
easily manage by tinting with a paint- 
brush the paper on which his numerals 
are printed. 
I would reserve a distinct colour for 
the specific numeral, which might be 
placed upon the same pin, but over the 
register numeral. Each insect so sent 
out from a good authority would have a 
double value, as authenticating the name 
no less than the locality. Besides poor 
“ Tyro ” would at once find its proper 
place in the cabinet without the least 
difficulty. 
But uniformity in the use of specific 
numerals is essential to the success of 
this. We have now two Lists of our 
Lepidoptera, following quite a different 
order. I do not pretend to say which is 
best, or which more iu use ; but I do 
believe it is very desirable that we should 
come to some agreement as to which ot 
the two is to be generally adopted. Even 
if the inferior were chosen, the advan- 
tages gained in uniformity would more 
than compensate the loss iu other re- 
spects. 
