THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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COMMUNICATIONS. 
Lepidoptera. 
Colias Edusa in May. — On the 6th of 
May, at Sandrock, in the Isle of Wight, 
I saw a very line male C. Edusa. The 
insect flew close to me, and there could 
be no doubt of its identity; I did not 
attempt its capture myself, as my net was 
rolled up and in my pocket. My com- 
panion chased it, hut failed to catch it. 
At the same place I took, an hour or 
two after, a good specimen of Stenapteryx 
hybridalis. As these insects usually ap- 
pear in July and August, I conclude they 
were specimens which had hybernated. 
On the same day I found, near St. Law- 
rence, the lame and pups of M. Cinxia ; 
they were hard to find, being hidden 
close down among the roots of the grass. 
— A. F. Sealy, 70, Trumpinyton Street , 
Cambridge ; May 17. 
Ptilodontis Palpina. — Can any reader 
of the ‘Intelligencer’ send me a living 
male of P. Palpina ? I have two females 
of this species desirous to make such an 
acquaintance, for which they are waiting 
most patiently. The male shall be re- 
turned with fertilized eggs (if obtained) 
for the loan : I have several more in 
pupa, but have not yet had a male out. 
The present spring appears to have been 
particularly favourable for the develop- 
ment of Eriogaster Lanestris : not only 
have those bred in captivity emerged 
much more freely than usual, but the 
hedges in the neighbourhood have a more 
than ordinary sprinkling of the young 
broods feeding on them. — George Gas- 
coyne, Newark; May 18. 
The Early Season. — In the ‘ Intelli- 
gencer,’ last week, the Rev. H. Harpur 
Crewe writes that he had little doubt 
that the larvae of Lasiommata JE geria and 
Megcera pass the winter in the pupa state. 
So perhaps the following facts may be 
useful. Whilst digging round a poplar 
tree, the first week of last November, I 
found a full-fed larva of L. TEgeria , which 
turned to a pupa in a few days, and came 
out the 26th of last month, more than a 
month later than those I saw out of 
doors : at the same time I saw a larva a 
quarter grown, but I did not take it, and 
I think that it is not at all improbable 
that it hybernates in that state. This is 
a very early season: I bred Notodonta 
trepida in a cold room on the 29th of last 
month; caught A. Euphrosyne on the 
5th of May, last year on the 16th ; bred 
D. pudibunda on the 8th of this month, 
last year on the 3rd of June. — G. F. 
Mathews, Raleigh House, near Barn- 
staple; May 17. 
Capture of Notodonta Carmelila . — I 
had the pleasure of taking a splendid 
female of this beautiful and rare insect, 
which was at rest on the trunk of a noble 
birch tree at Addington, on Saturday 
last. Is it not very late for its appear- 
ance? — Joseph Stevens, Upper Rich- 
mond Road, Wandsworth ; May 17. 
Notodonta Carmelita. — I have taken 
this species at Dareuth and at West 
Wickham Woods: several have been 
taken at the latter place. Everybody is 
on the look out, — natives, gamekeepers 
and childen, — and in some cases the 
latter have been successful, but every 
insect taken by them is called Carmelita. 
The London entomologists have mustered 
there in some numbers ; I have seen up- 
wards of forty at various times. Many 
have been lucky in their captures, and 
it will soon become a common insect. 
Numbers have been bred from the eggs; 
1 have three females laying at the pre- 
sent time. I have also taken on the birch 
trees Acasis Viretaria, — by no means a 
common insect. — H.J. Harding, 1, York 
Street, Church St., Shoreditch ; May 13. 
Notodonta Carmelila and Aleucis Pic- 
laria. — I have had the pleasure of taking 
both these species this season ; the first 
named at Wickham the beginning of 
this month; the second at Hartford 
Heath, the latter end of last month.-- 
