THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
67 
A. J. H. — We presume there are no 
collectors of Dipteva willing to foster 
your project: begin with the TipulidcE 
yourself. 
L. W., Teston. — Sensible communi- 
cations are inserted gratis; if you will 
read what has appeared in our columns 
respecting the ‘ Gradus,’ you will dis- 
cover “ what it is, Ike.” 
Leaf of ASgopodium Podagraria 
SCREWED UP BY THE LARVA OF CHAU- 
hodus Illigerellus. — Our woodcut 
this week will enable the most unob- 
servant to collect the larva of C/iauliodus 
Illigerellus : the plant grows freely in 
damp woods, and the contortion caused 
by the larva is so considerable that none 
need be afraid of not seeing it, unless 
they shut their eyes. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
Lepidoptera. 
Smerinthus Populi. — I have fertilized 
eggs of this species, which l will forward 
to those entomologists who may be in 
want of it, as long as my stock lasts. 
I shall be much obliged if any one can 
kindly favour me with eggs or larvas 
of G. quercifolia or any of the genus 
Nolodonla, except Camelina . — Trovey 
Blackmore, The Hollies , Wandsworth, 
S. W. ; May 1 9. 
Dipterygia Pinastri in Devonshire . — 
On the 4th of May I took a specimen of 
this insect in a wood near Torquay. — 
R. M. Stewart, 3, Park Place, Torquay ; 
May 18. 
Captures at Hanworth. — I am now 
taking Spilosoma Papyratia, Hydrelia 
Uncana and Polypogon Cribralis. Pa- 
pilio Machaon has just made its ap- 
pearance in our fens. — W. Winter, 
lianworth, near Nonvich ; May 18. 
Coleophora murinipennella. — The larvae 
of this species are now feeding, hut, from 
the extreme resemblance of their cases to 
the seeds of the Luzula, they are not 
very easy to find. — II. T. Stainton ; 
May 22. 
Minute Larva mining the Shoots of 
Rhamnus Frangula. — In a little wood on 
the edge of the green sand near Guild- 
ford, I found, last Friday, a small larva 
mining the shoots of the alder buck- 
thorn ( R . Frangula), and causing the 
young leaves to droop. The habit of the 
larva and the drooping of the shoot re- 
minded me excessively of the larva of 
liyponomeuta plumbellus, which infests 
the shoots of the spindle. What this 
Rhamnus larva will produce remains to 
be seen; but I am disposed to expect 
Lavern a Rhamniella. — Ibid. 
The Larva of Xanthia A urago. — The 
larva of this pretty Noctua is now feeding 
on the beech and the maple; but, as it 
seems, according to Guenee, to be but 
little known, and is inaccurately de- 
scribed by Treitschke in Mr. Siaintou’s 
‘Manual,’ I have thought it might 
interest some of the readers of the 
‘ Intelligencer ’ to know what it is like, 
and how to find it. The egg, which is 
ribbed and at first pink, but changes 
after a few days to a slate-colour, is laid 
in the autumn, on the buds and small 
shoots of the beech and maple. It 
hatches about the 20th of April, and 
first attacks the opening bud, in which 
it buries itself. The larva is naked, of a 
reddish brown, with a narrow white dorsal 
line, and two narrow white spiracular 
lines: head, six front legs, and spiracles 
black. After feeding on the opening 
bud, it then unites two leaves together 
and feeds and moults between them. As 
it attaches the leaves pretty firmly to- 
gether, it seems of little use beating for 
it, but it may be found by raising the 
branch and holding it against the light, 
when it is easily observed between the 
leaves. — Rev. B. H. Birks, Stonor, 
Henley-on-Thames ; May 22. 
