118 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
water, as recorded in the ‘ lulelligencer ’ 
(No. 195, pp.99 and 100) is 1 find S.pa- 
pyraliu. — VV. Winteb, Aldeby, near Bec- 
fles ; July 1. 
A new Butalis Larva . — Herr Schmid, 
of Frankfort, has sent me a new larva 
clearly referable to the genus Butalis ; it 
feeds on the leaves of Ceraslium arvenscy 
making a considerable amount of web 
along the stem of that plant. What 
species this larva will produce yet re- 
mains to be seen. — H. T. Stainton; 
July 9. 
Blathmopoda pedella. — Mr. Douglas 
has just made the astounding discovery 
that this insect frequents alder trees at 
Lewisham!! 1 should have thought 
nothing of going fifty miles to get it, and 
here it is within a mile of my owu door. 
It is just nine years since Mr. Dunning 
captured his specimen at Brandon, and 
I am nut aware of any subsequent cap- 
ture in this country till last week! — 
IniD. 
Exceretia Allisella bred . — 1 have just 
bred a specimen ol this insect from larvae 
sent me by Mr. Gregson on the 28th of 
May last. These larvae bored into the 
stem of Artemisia vulgaris, a plant to 
which the species hud lung been deemed 
to be attached. From the tendency of 
the perfect insect to go greasy in collec- 
tions, the economy of the larva as a stem- 
borer might have been deduced; but I 
wish some physiological chemist would 
explain why the moths produced irum 
internal-feeding larvae go greasy. — Ibid. 
Patience and Perseverance rewarded . — 
Ever since I read in the ‘ Manual’ (vol. i. 
p. 280) your remarks on the larva of 
Catocampa Exoleta I have felt a strong de- 
sire to see it for myself. Last year I suc- 
ceeded so far as to get a few ova, but not 
understanding their treatment it was a 
failure. 'Fkis season I determined to try 
my luck again; having obtained some 
ova from Mr. Taylor, a few of which 
hatched in a day or two, 1 supplied them 
with food, but not one of them would 
touch it. I then resolved to turn them 
out in one of my breeding-cages: day 
after day passed and I could see nothing 
of them ; the conclusion come to was 
that if root-feeders when young they were 
gone down out of sight, or that they were 
all dead. About a month back I ob- 
served several small green-striped larvae, 
which I concluded were Hadena Pisi ; 
I knew it was too soon for them, but if 
so how they came there was to me a 
mystery. However, about a fortnight 
since 1 resolved (as the farmers say here) 
to “ turn them out to grass;” but before 
doing so I proceeded to examine one of 
them more closely. I soon found it was 
no Pisi; the lines and markings were 
quite different, and that it was Exoleta, 
and no mistake. Since then I have taken 
more notice of them. Respecting their 
Ibod, they will eat poplar, lime, alder and 
groundsel ; in fact, they have taken almost 
anything I have given them, but, strange 
to say, I cannot get them to make a 
single meal off dock. They do not con- 
ceal themselves during day, but remain 
at their food, and feed during the day as 
well as at night. I was greatly amused 
at seeing one feeding when the sun was 
shining— a rare thing thing down here 
now-a-days. I had seen other larvae eat 
fast, but this one beat anything I had 
ever seen before ; it had just commenced 
on an alder-leaf, and in a few minutes 
part of it was gone, the quick motion of 
its head up and down reminding me of 
the saw-frame at the steam-mill ; nay, if 
there had been two contending for the 
“ belt” they could not have put it out of 
sight faster, 'riiis morning one of them 
has cast its skin fur the last time. If I 
could I need not say what my feelings 
were on seeing, for the first lime, a larva 
of C. Exoleta iu full dress. I did not 
scream out, but certainly do think (with 
yourself) that there is a treat — a first-rate 
one too — in store for those who have not 
seen it. — Joseph Steele, Conglcton ; 
July (5. 
