124 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Lepidoptera. 
Theda W-album bred. — To-day I had 
the pleasure of setting a most lovely 
specimen of this insect, which fell to my 
lot in a rather strange manner. On that 
hard fungus, iu which, a little while ago, 
I mentioned having taken Orchesia mi- 
cans, &c., I found a pupa apparently 
gummed to the fungus. I enclosed it in 
a pill-box, and from this the butterfly 
above mentioned has emerged. Not 
knowing whether it is a common occur- 
rence to find this pupa in such situations 
I venture to send this.— R. Tyhek, jun.. 
Hill House, Eye ; July 1 1 . 
Pyralis Coslalis . — This insect is now 
abundant on our hay-stacks. I have not 
as yet, however, succeeded in finding 
any of the pupas. In the ‘ Manual ’ it is 
stated that the larva is unknown, and 
consequently the food is not mentioned ; 
but in noticing the chief characteristics 
of the Pyralidae, Mr. Siainton remarks 
that the larvae in general feed on de- 
cayed animal or vegetable matter: now 
near this haystack is a manure-heap, in 
which the larva; of Costella may perhaps 
find whereon to feed ; but I think it is 
much more likely, as I boxed two unde- 
veloped specimens, that they feed on the 
straw which forms the thatch of the 
stack, and that they change to the pupa 
in the inside of the straw, which circum- 
stance may explain why a good specimen 
should have been found “ up three pair” 
in the heart of the city, as though Cos- 
talis may be rather an uncommon object 
there, yet straw is ncjt. I hope soon to 
have some eggs, and should I succeed in 
obtaining any I shall be happy to for- 
ward them to any gentleman who wishes 
further to investigate the matter and 
make the number of unknown larvie less 
by one. — A. Lloyd, Belsize, Hampstead, 
A’. W. ; July 14. 
Tortrices reared . — I have lately reared 
the following Tortrices from the larvae ; — 
Endopisa niyricana, from the grub so 
well known to those who prepare green 
peas for the table ; Eupeecilia Carduana, 
from a reddish larva with black head, 
found feeding in the flower-heads of one 
of the Hieracia ; Stigmonota dorsana, 
from a beautiful orange-coloured larva 
with conspicuous black spots, found 
feeding in the seed-pods of Vida syl- 
vatica ; also one specimen of Carjmeapsa 
funebrana, from the little red larva which 
infests plums. I have one specimen on 
the setting-board, produced from a larva 
that feeds in the seed-heads of the com- 
mon knap-weed ; I think it is Catoplria 
Hohenwarthiana, but, not having a series, 
I am not quite clear about it. I am now 
rearing Heliothis marginata from larva 
taken on rest-harrow. — W. 11. Jeffrey, 
2, Huntriss Row, Scarboro'; July 16. 
COLEOPTERA. 
Rhynchiles betuleli . — Since my remarks 
last week I have detected two other gy- 
nandromorphous specimens of this insect 
in the collection of a friend (captured by 
him at Darenth), and also found another 
example among some unset beetles of 
my own taking, together with a still more 
singular variety, — viz. a blue spineless 
male. I noticed fur the first time (at 
Darenth, on the 8th instant) a female of 
this sj)ecies unmistakeably eating a young 
hazel-leaf, not nibbling at the hedges, 
but making oblong perforations in the 
middle: she was feeding not greedily 
but daintily, following some sort of au 
indistinct pattern, as I saw on the same 
leaf several similar holes to that which 
she was engaged upon ; indeed I have 
ol'ten remarked these marks on the leaves, 
without being able hitherto to account 
for them. Any faint idea enleitained by 
me that the spines of the mule might iu 
some way he used to break the young 
shoots, as mentioned in my last notice, 
is now of course abandoned, — since I 
have seen how trenchantly the insect can 
