THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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CAPTURES. 
LePIDOI'TERA. 
Deilephila Livornica. — Two specimens 
of this insect have been captured in this 
town, one on Saturday last, the other on 
Monday ; they are both in perfect con- 
dition, apparently just out from the pupa. 
A fine specimen of Acherontia Alropos 
was picked alive off the sea, and brought 
to me ; it is a fine specimen, and but 
little damaged by the water. — Robert 
Kent, St. Leonard’ s-on-Sea ; May 23. 
Coleophora conspicuella. — On the 27th 
of May I visited Headley Lane, and was 
so fortunate as to take about twenty of 
the larvte of C. conspicuella. I think I 
may consider myself a lucky fellow, as it 
is the first time I have heard of them 
being taken by the score. — T. Eedle, 
9, Maidstone Place, Goldsmiths' Row, 
Hackney Road. 
Coleophora Larvee. — I paid a visit to 
Headley Lane, on the 27th of May, in 
search of Coleophora larvce, aud after five 
hours’ close searching I found I had 
eleven larvte of C. conspicuella and four 
of C. alcyonipennella. I then went to 
the Hilly Field, but, falling in with the 
keeper, I got sent off, so I returned to 
the Lane, and found C. limosipennella, 
C. solitariella and C. albitarsella. The 
larva of C. badipennella is now full fed, 
and rather plentiful, at Hackney : if any 
entomologist is in want of that species I 
shall have much pleasure in sending it, 
if they will send boxes and return postage. 
— J. Sayeh, 16, Waterloo Street, Hag- 
gerstone, N.E. ; May 28. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Cetonia aurata. — On a fine day last 
week my brother observed an immense 
assemblage of this splendid beetle by the 
market gardens on the river bank between 
Chelsea and Putney. They were flying 
about in the hot sunshine with a loud 
buzzing noise, and appeared to be at- 
tracted by the pear-blossoms, on some of 
which four or five specimens would be 
settled (reminding one of the apples of 
the Hesperides) ; many of them also con- 
gregated on the stumps of the trees, and 
altogether their numbers and brilliant 
appearance were so marked as to com- 
pel the attention of the cockney-rustic 
passers by, generally heedless of entomo- 
logical phenomena. My brother reckoned 
upwards of a hundred on and about one 
small clump of trees. I have noticed 
that the wings of this beetle (being iri- 
descent) appear almost as violet-coloured 
in the sunshine as those of the foreign 
Xylocopa — an immense wood-boring bee. 
— E. C. Rye, 284, King's Road, Chelsea, 
S.W. 
Captures of Coleoptera . — Towards the 
end of March I found a specimen of 
Elater ephippiurn at the roots of the 
heather on Wimbledon Common ; soon 
after, I obtained another in the same 
place. Now it had always been supposed 
that this was exclusively a wood-feeding 
insect ; I was therefore not a little sur- 
prised to find them under those circum- 
stances, but supposed that they had 
chosen the roots of the heath for a by- 
bernaculum ; but this month they have 
been taken by several people on the 
heath, — by myself on Saturday last, a 
very warm day, so that the explanation 
of the hybernation seems instiflicient. 
It is easy enough to account for their 
capture on hawthorn-flowers and nettles, 
the nectar in the one case and the honey- 
dew in the other having evidently formed 
the attraction ; but it seems somewhat 
difficult to explain why an insect, whose 
larva feeds (as is supposed) on the wood 
of the trees in Wimbledon Park, should 
not only hybernate at the roots of the 
heath (instead of in the more natural 
locality, under the moss on, and at the 
roots of, the park trees), but also linger 
there, and appear in greater niunbers 
than ever so late as the 19th of May. 
It seems that six were lately taken there 
