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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
of your readers be in want of eggs of 
Clostera Reelusa, I should have pleasure 
in forwarding them.— R. H. Fkemlin, 
Wuteringbury, near Maidstone ; May 10. 
7 he Larva of Gnophos : is there more 
than one British Species ?■ — The larvae of 
this genus are never full grown: those 
which I am acquainted with feed by 
night on the rock cistus ( llelianthemum 
vulgare), and may best be taken by search- 
ing late in the evening with a lamp, but 
a close search will reveal them by day, 
concealed under the leaves. Of the 
brown variety, common in this neigh- 
bourhood, I have known the transforma- 
tions for some years ; the lead-coloured 
insect, abundant on the upper part of the 
mountains in North Wales, has also been 
reared by our Northern entomologists, — 
the larvtE of this variety and their habits 
are identical with the Bristol insect. 
There are two varieties' occurring in the 
Isle of Wight, on the South Downs and 
other places, one ashy-coloured in abun- 
dance, the other semitransparent and 
rarer : there is also a very dark insect, 
abundant in the New Forest and on 
various heaths in the South of England. 
Should any reader of the ‘ Intelligencer’ 
be able to capture either of these three 
last-named varieties I should be greatly 
obliged for a few specimens, and would 
gladly make any return in my power, or 
I should be equally gratified by their for- 
warding them to my esteemed friend Mr. 
H. Doubleday, who is already breeding 
the Welch and Bristol varieties. It 
would be very interesting to compare the 
larvte of all the varieties and ascertain if 
any difference exists between them, or 
whether the great and constant difference 
in the colour of the perfect insects is 
mere’y attrilu able to soil. I have not used 
any specific names for the several varieties, 
as there seems considerable confusion 
among them. — P. II. Vaughan, Redland, 
Bristol. 
Gnophos pullaria , fc . — I have before 
me larva- of this insect, taken by Mr. 
Vaughan at Durdham Down, furnished 
to me by Mr. Greening, and also larvae 
collected by Mr. Greening, Mr. Almond 
and myself at Llanferros, Denbighshire, 
and at Prenton, in Cheshire, and of some 
larvae which I met with on Bidston Hill 
last week. Having paid much close 
attention to the egg, larvae and imago of 
this insect, I have no hesitation in pro- 
nouncing the whole of these larvae to be 
those of one variable species. It may 
be said, “ So says Guenee but, however 
proud we may be of M. Guenee’s ad- 
mirable works, we must not take all for 
granted that even he says, as, for in- 
stance, Cheimalobia ftligrammaria and 
C. autumnaria, which he gravely tells us 
are one species (simply because he was 
short of information upon this point) do 
not even appear in the same localities or 
within a month or two of each other; 
but, as it is more than probable that I 
shall have the larva; of both species this 
season, I reserve iny remarks for a time, 
merely observing that l already possess 
sufficient information respecting both 
species to warrant me in saying they are 
distinct. I may also observe that I have 
a full set of another equally distinct spe- 
cies (a birch feeder) in my cabinet, under 
the name Cheimatobia approximaria : the 
female of this species is even more distinct 
from either of the above species than the 
female of Autumnaria is from the female 
of Filigrammaria. — C. S. Guegson, 
Stanley ; May 9. 
Grapla C-album . — I noticed an ap- 
parently fresh specimen of this insect 
close to this town lately. This insect is 
still to be met with near this place: 1 
took eight in Edlington Wood in one 
day last autumn, and saw others. It 
would be interesting to know the cause 
of its disappearance from several of its 
former localities. — S. Clauk, 51, French 
Gate, Doncaster; May 10. 
A Culias Edusa from the Continent . — 
I may mention that, on a fine passage 
fiom Ncwhuvcu to Dieppe, on the 17lh 
