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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
to be a cripple.” The insect truly is so 
crippled, that it is by no means easy to 
determine its precise position, but I am 
inclined io think that, if not Incongruella 
(which frequents moors rather than grassy 
places), it is a new species closely allied 
to it. The case appears to be made of 
grass, and is fattest in the middle and 
attenuated at each end : this form is no 
doubt necessary to allow of the active 
larva turning round comfortably inside 
its case. Butalis incongruella has oc- 
curred at Wimbledon Common, so that 
it is no longer exclusively a Northern 
species. — H. T. Stainton ; April 1 0. 
Epione Adversaria . — In looking over 
the current number of the ‘Manual,’ 
I find that Epione Adversaria is con- 
sidered an extremely local insect, and 
that but two localities are given for it ; 
1 have great pleasure therefore in adding 
another locality, the Wigmore Woods, 
near here, where it is no rarity at the 
end of May and beginning of June. 
Tephrosia Laricaria and Consonaria and 
B. Cunsortaria are common in the same 
locality : these three species I generally 
take by day, at rest on the trunks of 
larches. T. Lari aria is making its ap- 
pearance now. — W. Chaney, 20, Upper 
Britton Street, New Brampton, near 
Chatham; April 9. 
Captures at the Sallows . — Near Exeter 
we have taken Xylina petrificala and 
Hoporinia Croceago at sallow-blossoms ; 
the specimens of the latter were very 
fine. — Talpa ; April 7. 
Exchange . — I have ten fine male spe- 
cimens of Nyssia Hispidaria (recently 
captured) to spare, and should be glad to 
send them to any entomologist who 
would return me a good series of either 
Lutulenta,Cespilis or Agalhina. —Robert 
MitFOHd, Hampstead ; April 12. 
Captures in Dunham Park . — During 
the last month I have taken Hibernia 
Leucophaaria, male and female (a few 
of the smoky black varieties have occurred 
in both sexes), Phiyalia Pilosaria, male 
and female, Biston Prodromuria and 
Nyssia Hispidaria, male and female. 
Leucophaaria and Pilosaria lasted a long 
time, from the middle of January to the 
end of March. — R. S. Edleston ; Bow- 
don, Cheshire; April 12. 
Tieniocampu Populeli. — I have bred 
this species from larva: reared from the 
eggs. — I bid. 
Saturuia Pavonia-minor. — I have a 
quantity of pupa* of this insect: I should 
be glad to exchange them for other spe- 
cies with any geutleman in want of them. 
— W. Talbot, Mount Pleasant, Wake- 
field; April 10. 
A Pugnacious Quercus. — Whilst ex- 
amining the “Bishop’s Paling,” one day 
last July, my attention was drawn to a 
battle between Thecla Quercus and a 
wasp : I was surprised to see the un- 
daunted pluck of T. Quercus ; he re- 
peatedly charged the wasp in the most 
furious manner, — he never attempted to 
fly away, but stuck to his opponeul with 
bull-dog courage: the scene presented 
the appearance of a miniature cock-fight. 
At length the wasp altered his tactics, 
and as T. Quercus made a charge, with 
W'ings erect, he dodged on one side, and 
whipped off a portion of his wings; this 
trick he repeated until poor Quercus’s 
wings were half destroyed, and seeing 
that he would shortly fall a victim to his 
cunning opponent, I captured him, and 
now have him in my cabinet. — Charles 
Healy, 4, Bath Place , liaygerstone , 
N.B. ; March 23. 
Geographical Distribution of British 
Butterflies. — I observe with much plea- 
sure a paper by Messrs. Boyd and More, 
in the ‘Zoologist,’ on the plau of Mr. Wat- 
son’s ‘Cybele Britannica,’ but with re- 
ference to the Rhopalocera only. It 
would be very desirable to extend the in- 
quiry so as to comprehend the distribution 
of other orders, and this might be accom- 
plished, at least to a considerable extent, 
by the joint labours of entomologists in 
different localities: our ranks are daily 
