182 THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCEE. 
Noctua Festiva, 
Orthosia Macilenta, 
Euplexia Lucipara, 
Epione Vespertaiia (^), 
Tephrosia Crepuscularia, 
Thera Variata, 
Be so good as to write first, and say 
what duplicates are offered in return. — 
Rev. G. R. Read, Sutton-on-Derwent, 
York. 
Exchange . — I have a few iinagos of 
the following insects to exchange : — 
Ourapteryx Sambucaria, 
Rumia Crattegata, 
Hemerophila Abruptaria, 
Arctia Caja, 
Charajas Gratninis, 
Argynnis Aglaia. 
I have also a few specimens of Erebia 
Cassiope and Ccenonympha Davus, taken 
this year in Scotland ; they are not, how- 
ever, in fine condition. As my wants are 
extremely numerous, it is useless to spe- 
cify anything in particular. Gentlemen 
not hearing from me in a week will 
conclude that I am not in want of the 
insects they offer. — F. Lovei.l Keavs, 
33, Gloucester Place, Kentish Town, 
IS. IV. 
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 
TINEINA. 
The Habits of Nemotois Scabio- 
SELLUS. 
This pretty long-horn had long ago . 
been observed to frequent the flowers of 
the Scabious {Scabiosa arvensis): Scopoli, 
who first described the insect in 17<)3, 
remarked, “ insidet perpetuo lloribus 
Scabioste” (it sits continually on the 
flowers of the Scabious) ; and since his 
time few entomologists have caught the 
species without remarking that it flew 
about the flowers of the Scabious. 
Yet for ninety-six years after Scopoli 
had named the insect the larva remained 
unknown. The certainty that it must 
be in the Scabious-heads rendered its 
non-detection the more extraordinary. 
In the ‘ Insecta Britannica; Lepi- 
doptera Tineina,’ we wrote (p. 51), “Of 
the habits and food of the larva nothing 
is known ; the acuminate, elongate ab- 
domen of the female of N. Scabiosellus 
would imply that the eggs were deposited 
in some substance, and Zeller has ob- 
served them boring into the flowers of 
Scabiosa arvensis (as though with a view 
of depositing their eggs there).” 
The late Mr. Ashworth (whose early 
death has been a great loss to Ento- 
mology) also noticed the female of Sca- 
biosellus “ with the abdomen thrust down 
among the florets of the Scabiosa colum- 
baria, the wings lying expanded on the 
top of the flower; she had the usual 
straining and thrusting motion, and after 
apparently depositing an egg in one 
place, would crawl across the flower and 
again thrust in the abdomen.” Mr. Ash- 
worth made a note of the flower which 
he had seen operated on “ intending to 
gather it when the larvar were likely to 
be grown,” but was confined to the house 
soon afterwards, and when he re-visited 
the spot the plants had been all cut 
down. In the winter time Mr. Ashworth 
picked up and jrulled off a great number 
of the seed-heads, but could find no trace 
of either larva or pupa. 
From that time nothing further had 
been ascertained, but last week we re- 
ceived the following letter from Herr 
Hofmann, of Ralisbou : — 
“ The larva of Nemotois Scabiosellus 
is found ; we have bred it from the egg ; 
its food-plant is Scabiosa arvensis. 
“We repeated an attempt which wc 
made three years ago, and which then 
