THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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chiefly at rest, on the holes of ash trees, 
hut this circumstance does not indicate 
that they fed upon it, — they are fondest 
of them, on account of the smooth while 
hark being- a place of secresy for them 
when laying very flat and close to the 
trunk : I took no less than fourteen spe- 
cimens off one tree: I have found several 
empty cases under the bark of the alder, 
indeed, in such numbers as led me to 
suppose they were the cases of Erutaria; 
I thought they were fir-feeders, hut I have 
taken them in woods where nothing but 
oak occurs, yet I think that either the 
Scotch or larch fir is as likely as not 
to prove the food of Coremia Erutaria, 
though it may be a lichen-feeder, which 
will reconcile their being found among 
the lichens, when looking for Cleora 
Glabraria. The pretty species Acidalia 
Blomeri was to have become extinct last 
year, on account of the first and last 
locality being cut down, and it was 
thought there was no other locality, — 
every collector went there, as it was con- 
sidered useless to try elsewhere : I am an 
unbeliever in lost localities or lost insects, 
and therefore, having some idea of the 
places most likely, I went exploring, and 
the result was my finding out the head- 
quarters of this pretty species : I never 
could get a female to lay eggs: I fancy 
the larva feeds on the wych elm, as I 
have seen them most frequently on the 
boles of the elm, and, not taking it as a 
rule that whatever trees moths are to be 
found on they necessarily feed upon, I 
have visited two elms and returned again 
and again, at intervals of a few minutes, 
and as often have more Blomeri come : 
although seldom found at rest on it, I 
always thought alder was their food, but 
I have found them, when just out of the 
chrysalis, expanding on the boles of the 
elm. Insects will always be rare if col- 
lectors do not scour their districts for 
twenty miles round ; time enough then to 
say they are scarce : I do not know of an 
instance in my experience of collecting 
where they have not turned up when 
diligently looked for: where we formerly 
got one Blomeri we can now take ten ; 
Mr. Ashworth and myself have taken 
them in this proportion. — J. B. Hodg- 
kin son, 1 1 , Bispham Street, Preston. 
Melanippe Alchemillaria and Rivaria. 
— Having noticed several communica- 
tions in the ‘ Intelligencer’ respecting 
the above species, I beg to state that 
Alchemillaria is one of the most common 
insects in our immediate locality ; in a 
large wood near here I have seen some 
hundreds at different times: I have seen 
as many as three or four on the trunk of 
one tree; but I never met with Rivaria 
until last season, when I was beating in 
a lane for Geometrse, on which occasion 
I beat out six or eight fine specimens, 
which I saw at a glance were what I had 
often sought for in vain. Whilst beating 
for Rivaria I beat out two fine specimens 
of C. munilaria, an insect I had not 
taken before : I canuot positively state 
the time I took them, but I believe it 
was about the beginning of July. — W. 
Rodgers, Moorgate Grove , Rotherham ; 
March 22. 
Captures near Al/cham. — The following 
is a list of T'ineina and Pterophorina 
taken last year in the vicinity of Alkham, 
which village lies in a small but pretty 
valley between Dover and Folkestone. 
My uninitiated friends wonder how I 
found amusement in such a secluded 
spot, but the readers of the ‘Intelli- 
gencer’ will agree with me that years 
might be spent in the smallest hamlet 
without exhausting the treasures of 
nature. The country, as usual, is rich 
in plants as well as in insects. My 
hunting-ground has been in the valley of 
Alkham and on the hills around, called 
Ewell Miunis, Wolverton Common and 
also Eastwere Bay, where I had the good 
fortune to take one Trochilium chrysidi - 
forme last J uly. These places are referred 
to as A., E. iVL, W. C., E. B. Having duty 
to attend to as well as pleasure, and being 
