THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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inunda, stabilis, instabilis and cruda ; 
with Xylina petrijicata (after hyberna- 
tion ; the ‘ Manual’ makes no mention of 
the reappearance of this species in spring', 
and mine is not a solitary instance, since 
last year one or two specimens were taken 
at the same period, at Weston-super- 
Mare), and also with Xylocampa lilhor- 
hiza, the common spring Geometry, 
together with Anticlca devivaria and 
Pluesyle psiltacaria ; the latter, I sup- 
pose, also after hybernation. — M. A. 
Mathews, Raleigh, near Barnstaple; 
March 29. 
Spring Insects. — Yesterday week a 
white butterfly was seen on the win<r 
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near here, and on the 24th P. Rupee was 
taken. Is not this very early? The hy- 
bernating Vanessa Io, Polychloros and 
Urlicce are out. I have taken at sallow 
Tceniocampa munda, rubricosa and the 
commoner cruda , and stabilis in swarms ; 
instabilis has hitherto been rare. I also 
took a specimen of Anthocelis lilura at 
sallow : were you aware that it hyber- 
nated ? During the past week I have 
bred T. munda from oak and T. stabilis 
from birch. — S. Bingham, Newnham ; 
March 29. 
Breeding Cages. — Will you please 
favour me with a line in the next ‘ In- 
telligencer,’ staling the kind of breeding 
cage I should use for rearing larvae, aud 
where it may be best obtaihed. As I 
have not an opportunity of looking out 
any for myself, this would greatly oblige. 
— Z. 
[If any of our readers who are ex- 
perienced in rearing Macro-Lepidoptera 
can recommend a purchasable breeding 
cage, we shall be glad to hear from 
them.] 
COLEOPTERA. 
Biphyllus lunatus. — This has reap- 
peared in its old haunt, and I shall have 
much pleasure in sending living speci- 
mens to any entomologist forwarding me 
a stamped envelope. I do not collect 
Coleoptera, therefore require no return. 
— S. Bingham, Neivnham, Gloucester- 
shire ; March 22. 
Hammersmith Marshes . — Having no- 
ticed some remarks upon this locality, in 
a former number of the ‘ Intelligencer,’ I 
wish to observe that there is very fair 
collecting to be had on the Middlesex 
bank of the Thames beyond Fulham, — 
that is, for novices, who, like myself, will 
be contented with filling their quills and 
pill-boxes with species a little more un- 
common than the “ ignobile vulgus” of 
beetledom, with the chance of finding 
something good. If quantity is an ob- 
ject, I can confidently promise success, 
as I lately found, on a river-side dock 
near the “ Crab Tree,” some old willows, 
whose bark could be torn off in sheets, 
showing countless hordes of Phcedon 
vitellince in some parts so thickly stud- 
ding the wood as to resemble the tinselled 
scale-armour beloved by school-boys for 
the adornment of their stage heroes; nor 
were the Geodephaga less abundant, as 
a dig at the roots exposed troops of 
Anchomeni, with here and there an active 
Baclister bipustulatus, conspicuously red, 
and droves of racing Bembulia (praecipue 
femoralum and iiltorale, whose feetid, 
milk-like exudations must be loo well 
known to the nostrils of the eager in- 
cipient). Omaseus minor occurs also in 
plenty, and Patrobus excavatus more 
rarely, chiefly tumbling out of very wet 
rotten holes at the tap of the bark-knife ; 
in the drier parts, Chrysomela polita, 
tucked up like a golden button, may fre- 
quently be found hybernating (a more 
than ordinary warm day bringing him 
out in the open air). On digging deeper 
at the roots Carabus granulatus is pretty 
sure to turn up, and Phosphuga alrala 
will not fail to scramble out of the frass, 
whilst a more careful scrutiny of the dry 
bark produced me Phcedon marginella, 
Latridius nodifer , Orchestes Alni, Stenus 
Juno and speculala (?), Lathrobium elon- 
gatum and brunnipes , and Xanlholinus 
