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THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S WEEKLY I NTELLIG ENCEF. 
that I have just removed from ray 
setting-board a fine female of Lasio- 
campa Quercus : I found the larva, 
feeding on the heather, on the 10th of 
May; it spun up on the 14th of July, 
and came out on the 12th of August: 
O 
I have often bred them, but this is the 
first time that ever I knew of the same 
occurrence before iu Scotland. I had 
the good fortune this year to take a 
fine variety of Melanippe Haslata : it is 
larger and finer than the common kind, 
with much more ptire white, and a fine 
pure white fringe running round both 
wings. — W. Lennox, 19, Shakespeare 
Street, Dumfries; August 28. 
Captures in the past Month . — I venture 
to send a short account of my captures 
during last month at Tunbridge Wells 
and Dover. At the former place all I 
took worth recording were three dozen 
of Polgommatus AEgon. I saw one 
Apatura Iris. At Dover 1 took Arge 
Galathea and Poli/ommatus Conjdon in 
abundance, a few Arggnnis Aglaia and 
Hipparchia Semele. During the last 
summer quarter I took here plenty of 
Polgommatus Adonis and Hypercompa 
Dominula, also Polgommatus Ageslis. 
To-day a specimen of Sphinx Convolvuli 
was taken here. — J. II. P. Dart, Com- 
moners, Winchester ; Sept. 10. 
COLEOPXERA. 
Capture of a Nest of Hornets, with a 
Specimen of Velleius dilatatus . — I last 
night succeeded in capturing a nest of 
hornets, the first I ever had the chance 
of making an attack upon : I took the 
whole number prisoners, with the loss of 
three or four lives only, — I mean on the 
adversary’s side, — I did not lose so many. 
In preparing to remove the nest a rather 
good-looking Staph, evidently “ the worse 
for liquor” (Chloroform), was observed 
staggering about among its legitimate 
“occupiers and owners,” who were “too 
far gone” themselves eitlicr to assist or 
to mole.st him. J very soon had him 
“in custody ” as one “drunk and in- 
capable,” and although I am not “ well 
acquainted with the family,” I think 
there is little doubt he will be found to 
answer to the name of Velteim dilatatus. 
I transplanted the colony during the 
night, and this morning the work of the 
nest is being carried on in a glazed box 
under my own eye. As the capture of a 
nest of hornets is not an every-day occur- 
rence, I will, when time permits, detail 
the plan of attack I adopted in the 
present instance, when it will be seen 
that with proper and very simple pre- 
cautions no danger whatever need be 
apprehended by the assailing party. — 
S. Stone, Brighthamplon, Witney, Ox- 
fordshire ; September 8. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Eupithecia Suhnotata . — I am most 
happy to announce the capture of a lew 
larva; of •S'M^aotata feeding on Cheno- 
podium. The larvae, when young, are 
particularly fond of hiding themselves 
amongst the buds of the above plant, 
and, when full fed, on the under side of 
the lower leaves close to the ground. — 
James B.atty, 133, South Street, Park, 
Sheffield; September 10. 
A remarkable Habit in Coleophora pal- 
liatella . — One evening in July I was 
sugaring in Dulwich Wood. It was one 
of those damp, windy, cold, uncomfort- 
able nights — a good sample of the weather 
at that time. 1 had finished about four 
trees, and commenced anothci, when my 
attention was drawn to a multitude of 
little white moths coming from all 
quarters towards my feet, and on looking 
down was astonished to see that they 
were all clustered about and working 
their way into a tuft of Aira cespitosa 
growing there ; in fact, every blade was 
alive with them. These were Coleophora 
pallialella, and apparently all males. 
