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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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Change of Address. — Having left 
Moorgate Grove, in future my address 
will be — William Rodgers, Hudson's 
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
D. P. M. — Your beech-leaf miner is 
Lithocolletis Fayinella. 
W. W. — Females are really far more 
numerous than males, but they fly less 
frequently, and are consequently not so 
often seen or caught; those who breed 
largely find the proportions vary from 
3 to 2 to 2 to I . The females are gene- 
rally later than the males. 
T. L. — The ‘ Synonymic List’ will not 
appear just yet. 
C. R. L. — The proposed Testimonial 
came to nothing. 
H. A. — I. Your Trochilium should be 
Cynipiforme. 2. We are not yet clear 
about the apple-feeding Hyponomeuta. 
F. K. — Your bookseller must have 
misinformed you; Part 27 of Hewitson’s 
‘Exotic Butterflies’ was published in 
July, so that the April number was cer- 
tainly not the last. 
Several communications are neces- 
sarily delayed till next week. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
Lepidoptera. 
Fen Noctuce in Somersetshire. — We 
have been working some fens in this 
neighbourhood, and have taken a few of 
L. Struminea, but hardly enough to 
offer for exchange; however, we were 
fortunate enough to find a larva busily 
employed in the Artmdo phrugmitcs : 
when cut out he was sketched and de- 
scribed as follows: — Yellowish white, 
with the head brownish black ; the whole 
body, with the exception of a scutellum 
on the prothorax and on the caudal seg- 
ment, marked with minute blackish dots, 
from which still more minute setae arise ; 
the spiracles black, thus agreeing pretty 
nearly with the figure of N. gcmini- 
puncta in Humphrey and Westwood. 
The habits, however, of our larvae did not 
quite agree with those assigned to this 
species by Guenee. By no means were 
they, for we found more than one con- 
tented with a single reed : they got at 
the pith of the youngest and tenderest in 
a way which did them infinite credit, and 
finally established themselves just above 
water line in some monster reed, usually 
entering from beneath near a knot, and 
forming a window near the knot above, 
blocking up the passage to the entrance 
by a small bastion of pith and silk ; but 
on a few occasions the window was be- 
neath the hole. Four in an internodal 
space was the largest happy family we 
found; and even where those windows 
existed one of the party seemed to have 
found it too hot (and no wonder), and 
taken himself off’. Besides, the windows 
were often all together, and then, if the 
undermost pupa was most precocious, he 
would fare badly. As it was, many 
perished from the collapsing of the reeds 
in drying; to prevent this I cut out the 
remainder, and laid them in damp moss, 
when in due time they hatched into N. 
geminipuncla ; but as they had an un- 
