THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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pnnctulalus and linearis in swarms ; the 
latter passes the winter in apparently 
the most complicated and uncomfortable 
position that even a Staph, can distort 
itself into (more angular even than the 
conventional attitude of larval Stauropus 
Fagi), and I noticed that while the insect 
is in this state the segment showing first 
after the elytra is soft and whitish, acting 
like a hinge, but after death, and when 
dry, the entire abdomen is black and 
hard. Among several other common 
species, I obtained under bark, in the 
same place, a specimen of Galeruca 
nymphcece (the first I ever found) and 
several of the pretty little Hemipterous 
Gaslrodes abielis. As usual, empty cases 
of Cerura were not rare, affording casual 
lodging for roving Anchomeni ; but I re- 
marked a stranger “ billet” in a hedge at 
Battersea the other day, finding several 
specimens of Crioceris Asparagi huddled 
together torpid in the debris of a departed 
pupa of Arctia caja, whose woolly cover- 
ing must have been warm : in the 
same hedge Trichiosoma lucorurn, Hym., 
abounds, and the old cocoons never fail 
to be tenanted with Coccinellee, Aphodii , 
and such small deer — generally, however, 
being appropriated by a rapacious spider, 
who lines the inside, and stops up the 
opening with a silken door. — Edward C. 
Rve, 14, King's Parade , Chelsea , S. IV. ; 
March 13. 
Melasoma tremulce. — Having several 
unset specimens of this local beetle to 
spare, I shall be happy to send some (or 
cocoons of Trichiosoma lucorum) to all 
who remit boxes with return postage. — 
Ibid. 
Phylonomus nigrirostris. — This is 
abundant on the hills, and I shall be 
happy to send living specimens to any 
one who will send a pill-box and stamp. 
— II. Tyber, jun., Row Lane, Southport. 
Larva: in Blackberries. — Mr. Taylor 
has had the goodness to send me, alive, 
one of the beetles he reared from black- 
berries (Intell. March 20th). It is By - 
lurus tomentosus, a species usually in 
profusion on the flowers of whitethorn 
and mountain ash. I had several times 
tried to rear these larvae, but failed ; 
Mr. Taylor has been more successful in 
educating the refractory blackberry eaters. 
— J. W. Douclas, Lee ; March 29. 
Larvce in Blackberries. — In the ‘ In- 
telligencer’ of March 20th is a communi- 
cation from Mr. A. D. Taylor, in which 
he states that he bred a Coleopterous in- 
sect from a larva which feeds on the fruit 
of the blackberry. In reply to a com- 
muuication, Mr. Taylor obligingly sent 
me a specimen of the insect : it proves to 
be By turns tomentosus. This may prove 
interesting to others as well as myself. 
This larva is identical with the raspberry 
maggot. — Frederick Smith, 27, Rich- 
mond Crescent, Islington ; March 27. 
DISTRIBUTION OF THE CRAMBIDA) 
IN ENGLAND. 
I should be glad to hear from those 
who have been successful in taking local 
species of this group. I annex a num- 
bered list, so that correspondents need 
only allude to them by the numbers: — 
1. Eudorea Cembrte 
2. 
99 
Atomalis 
3. 
99 
Ambigualis 
4. 
91 
Pyralella 
5. 
59 
Truneicolella 
6 . 
99 
Crata-gella 
7. 
99 
Frequentella 
8 . 
99 
Phaeoleuea 
9. 
99 
Resinea 
10 . 
99 
M urana 
11 . 
99 
Liueola 
12. 
Augustea 
13. 
99 
Alpina 
14. 
99 
Gracilalis 
15. 
99 
Pallida 
1(3. 
Galleria 
Melionella 
17. Apliromia Colonella 
18. Melissoblaptes bipunctanus 
19. Achroia grisella 
20. Aucrastia Latella 
21. „ Farrella 
