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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
feeding than I have food for, I was de- 
sirous to husband it, that the only juniper 
tree I have in my garden might last their 
time; I therefore stuck every sprig I cut 
into a piece of potato to keep it fresh 
(I do not like bottles of water — larvae 
drown themselves in them), and on re- 
newing the food next day I found the 
larvae enjoying themselves on the potatoes, 
cutting grooves along the cut face, and 
sometimes half-burying themselves in the 
Irish fruit, and this they continued to 
do. — C. S. Gbegson, Fletcher Grove, 
Stanley, near Liverpool. 
Elachista Pullicomella : Correction of 
Error. — At p. 37 of this volume I re- 
corded that I had received larvae of this 
species from Herr Auton Schmid. This 
appears to have been a mistake: the 
larvae collected by Herr Schmid were 
E. cygnipennella. The pupa sent at the 
same time was that of E. nigrella, which 
had got placed in the box by mistake. 
Hence the previous notice at p. 37 is 
altogether erroneous, as the larvtE which 
“ mined in the style of a Cygnipennella 
larva” were really referable to that species. 
And the pupa “ under a silken covering 
resembling that of Rufocinerea" was 
E. nigrella. Herr Schmid tenders ten 
thousand apologies for tlie mistake, and 
promises to be more careful in luture. 
Perhaps our readers will forgive him this 
time! — H. T. Stainton ; June 2. 
Larva of Asthenia Coniferana. — I have 
bred A. Coniferana from larvat furnished 
me by W . Backhouse, Esq. ; they feed in 
the bark of Scotch fir, turning part of the 
“ frass” outside ; they are dull yellowish 
white, with the head pale brown, and 
with no spots. Length about five-eighths 
of an inch. — John Sang, Darlington ; 
June 1. 
Larva of Coleophora Badiipennella . — 
Through the kindness of Mr. Sayer I 
have received a supply of the larvae of 
this species. They are feeding on elm ; 
the cases are all remarkably short, and 
have the motith abruptly turned down ; 
so that they cannot be confused either 
with the cases of Fuscedinella or those of 
Limosipennella. In form they resemble 
the cases of the latter species, but the 
size is so different that they cannot he 
mistaken. — H. T. STAtNTON : June 2. 
Hints to Bug Collectors. — As the 
promised Catalogue of the British 
Hemiptera cannot fail of giving an im- 
petus to bug collecting, tlie following 
remarks may not be altogether useless, 
or considered out of place. At this 
period, and for some time to come, the 
collector will meet with numbers of un- 
developed forms, which, if consigned at 
once to the laurel-bottle will be obviously 
useless as specimens, while if they are 
returned to the bough from which they 
were beaten or shaken, the chances are 
that when wanted they will not he forth- 
coming, or, in other words, that the col- 
lector w ill never meet w ith them again, — 
that is, in the case of species at all rare 
or scarce. What then is the course to 
be pursued? The plan 1 have adopted, 
and which I recommend to others is to 
carry, in addition to the bottle containing 
bruised laurel-leaves, one containing un- 
bruised oak-leaves, if 1 am beating oak ; 
sprigs of fir, if beating firs; birch, if beat- 
ing birch, &c. Into this bottle I put all 
the immature specimens I am desirous of 
seeing become matured. At home I have 
a large aquarium-glass, to which I have 
had a lino cover made; in this glass are 
placed three or four short, squat, wide- 
mouthed bottles containing water, in 
which 1 put sprigs from the trees off 
which my s])ecimeus were beaten. Here 
the insects live and thrive as well as they 
could possibly do in their native haunts, 
care of course being taken not to allow 
the plants npon which they feed to wither 
or dry up, but to renew them as often as 
they exhibit a tendency to do so ; and as 
a few hours sun every day seems not only 
to be mightily enjoyed by the insects, but 
also doubtless greatly favours their de- 
velopment, it would be well to give them 
