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found last autumn, mining the leaves of 
Lotus corniculatus : I propose for it the 
name Lolella. Specimens will be ex- 
hibited at the Meeting of the Entomo- 
logical Society of London next Monday. 
— H. T. Stainton; June 1. 
Offer to Catch. — If any of your readers 
are in want of L. Petraria, 1 shall be 
happy to capture them specimens. Ap- 
plicants must please forward their own 
boxes. I shall be glad of good specimens 
of any common local species. — J. H. 
Tilly, 3, Bernard Street, Regent's Park 
North ; June 1. 
Eggs of Smerinthus Tilice. — I have 
fertilized eggs of S. Tilice, which I shall 
be glad to exchange for eggs or larvae of 
S. ocellatus; or, as far as my stock holds 
out, will supply any one who needs them, 
on receipt of a box and stamps for 
postage. — Rev. J. Hellins, St. David’s 
Hill, Exeter ; June 1 . 
All gone. — My stock of eggs of S. 
Populi is quite exhausted. I must 
apologize for sending small quantities of 
them to some of the later applicants, but 
I did so with the view of sending them 
to as many persons as possible. — T. 
Blacioiore, The Hollies , Wandsworth, 
S. W. ; June 1 . 
Cerura Furcula. — On Sunday last I 
caught a fine male specimen of this in- 
sect at rest on a willow, having just 
emerged from the cocoon. — C. H. M. 
Clarke, 1 , Annette’s Crescent, Islington, 
N. 
HYBRID INSECTS. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ‘INTELLI- 
GENCER.’ 
Sir, — I beg to trouble you with a few 
more remarks on this subject. On re- 
ferring to the literary notices of hybrids, 
I find one account of considerable inte- 
rest, as it relates to hybrids procured in 
1842 by Mr. House between the very 
same species of Smerinthus, of which 
Mr. Hague obtained hybrids last year 
(Intel, ii. pp. 188 and 197). You will 
find a notice of Mr. House’s specimens 
in the third volume of the ‘Transactions 
of the Entomological Society of London,’ 
and I observe that Mr. Westwood men- 
tions, in his ‘ Introduction,’ that he pos- 
sessed one of these hybrids. In my 
opinion it would be very important to 
compare Mr. Hague’s hybrids with those 
obtained by Mr. House, and a memoir 
thereon (with coloured figures) would be 
highly desirable. 
Dr. Hagen. 
Kdnigsbtrg, April 24. 
Hybrid Individuals occurring in 
the Genus Smerinthus. 
The following is the notice in the third 
volume of the ‘ Transactions of the Ento- 
mological Society of London’ (pp. 193, 
194) referred to by Dr. Hagen; it is in 
the form of a letter from Mr. House to 
Mr. Raddon. 
“ Durdham Down Nurseries, 
Sept. 29, 1837. 
“ In compliance with yours of to-day, 
1 beg to state that the idea of an hybrid 
between Smerinthus ocellatus and Populi 
originated in my mind about ten years 
ago, and from that time till the present I 
have adopted every method that my fancy 
could devise to bring about my experi- 
ment; at length, wearied with unsuc- 
cessful effort, I determined, if 1 did not 
succeed this season I never would try 
again. 
“ You know I always keep my subter- 
raneous chrysalides in large garden-pots, 
filled within about two inches of the brim 
with light sandy loam, hooped over the 
top with wire and covered with gauze, 
leaving a space of 8 or 10 inches from 
the mould to the top of the wires. When 
S. ocellatus began coining out (having 
