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G. G. M., Frankfort. — Many thanks 
for the larvae. 
F. H., Regensburg. — The larvae of 
Colenphora virgatella, ditella and auricella 
will be very acceptable. Thanks for the 
Depressaria larva. 
H. F., Zurich. — Thanks for the larvie 
of Gelechia Farinosa. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
Lepidoptera. 
Aleucis pictaria. — Perhaps the fol- 
lowing, from M. Guenee’s tenth volume, 
may enable some of your readers who 
dwell where such “ unprofitable stuff” as 
“ les prunelliers” are yet allowed to grow, 
to find this insect, which doubtless is 
pretty generally diffused: — “The moths 
appear in the first days of spring, and 
fly in the evening about the sloe bushes 
in flower. I have never found them 
during the day. * * * It is not very 
rare around Chateaudun.” — G. Wailes, 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; May 4. 
Notes on Lepidoptera. — I have little 
doubt that many larvae of H. JEgeria and 
Megeera passed the winter in the pupa 
state, and thence their early appearance 
this year. On the 16th of October, when 
pupa-digging with my friend Mr. H. Bree, 
we found a full-fed larva of Megeera : this 
insect is generally only about a quarter 
grown when the winter sets in, and hyber- 
nates till the following spring. On the 
4 th of May I took one specimen of S. con- 
spicuaria and saw another: last year I 
took my first specimen on the 11th of 
May. I bred a specimen of JJ.nolha a 
short time since, from some larvte which 
I beat off aspen the first week in June: 
when full led the larva eats its way some 
depth into rotten wood, and there spins a 
cocoon: one of mine turned to a pupa 
in the centre of a cork, with which the 
mouth of the collecting-box in which I 
kept it was stopped. I have lately been 
breeding E. coronala from larvae on the 
flowers of C. vitalba in August. — Rev. 
H. Harpur Crewe, Stowmarket ; May 6. 
Foreign Larva of Lepidoptera wanted. 
• — Can any English or Continental ento- 
mologist send me a few larvae of C. Hera, 
A. Hebe, Matronula and Aulica : I much 
wish to breed them. I shall be most 
happy to make any return in my power. 
— Ibid. 
Offer to Catch . — This continuance of 
glorious weather has antedated the ap- 
pearance of many species of Lepidoptera 
with us, and as our time will shortly be 
fully occupied, I am anxious to know if 
any of your readers will be in want of 
M. Artemis, T. Tages and Alveolus, or 
H. Semele and Hyperanlhus ; also A. 
Lonicera, T. Piniaria, P. Anguinalis or 
E. lineolaria ; or, in Coleoptera, C. rnari- 
tima , — as these insects usually abound 
here, and will soon be out (some of course 
have already appeared); but, as I have a 
great aversion to the useless destruction 
of life, I shall not capture any unless by 
desire or for exchange. — W. D. Crotch, 
Uphill House, Weston - super - Mare ; 
May 9. 
Larva of Hypogymma Dispar . — I have 
now feeding a large stock of the larvae of 
this insect, and should much like to ex- 
change a few for any of the following: — 
Notodonta ziczac, 
Petasia Cassinea, 
Dasychira fascelina, 
Hypercoinpa dominula, 
Arctia villica, 
Lasiocampa trifolii, 
Pcecilocatnpa Populi, 
Enuomos Lunaria, 
„ angularia, 
„ Tiliaria, 
Angerona Prunaria. 
Parties sending any of the above shall 
have their boxes punctually returned by 
post. — William Hvdes, Bagshuw's 
Buildings, Park Spring, Sheffield; 
May 10. 
Eggs of Clostera Rvclusa . — Should any 
