THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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COMMUNICATIONS. 
Lepidoptera. 
Larva of Calocampa Exoleta. — In the 
notice of the larva of Calocampa Exoleta , 
p.282 of the ‘ Manual,’ the food on which 
it feeds is stated to be “ various plants.’ 
If it would be considered instructive, and 
facilitate the search for this larva of rare 
beauty, to specify one species of food- 
plant, I would respectfully intimate that 
it feeds on asparagus. A few years ago 
a friend of mine, Mr. Archer, captured a 
number of the larvae of Calocampa Exo- 
leta feeding on asparagus growing in a 
market garden in the rear of Dove Cot- 
tage, Blue Anchor Lane, Bermondsey. 
They in no way affect concealment, are 
full grown when the red berry is on the 
plant, change in the ground, and a few 
weeks afterwards the perfect insects 
emerge from their pupte. — Richard 
Cartmel, 13, Williams Grove, Wal- 
ivorth ; May 25, 1857. 
Abundance of Tortricina Larva :. — I 
am a little surprised that no advanced 
entomologist has alluded in the pages of 
the ‘ Intelligencer’ to this period, so rich 
in Tortricina larvae. On the 17th, and 
again yesterday, I found nearly every- 
thing teeming with larvae. The hedge 
elms and the nettles were abounding with 
life. On one cluster of nettles I cap- 
tured six ascertainable different species 
of Tortricina larvae, in colours singular 
in their contrast ; white, and shining as 
polished marble, evenly dotted with black 
in pairs ; others entirely black ; while 
some are yellow, brown, green and gray ; 
and numbers in various shadings of the 
two latter colours, which, at present, I 
cannot say are distinct species, or the 
same in different stages. — Ibid. 
Clear-wings at Wickham. — On the 17th 
inst. I took a beautiful specimen of Tro- 
chilium Culiciforme in Wickham Wood, 
flying round a birch stump; and on the 
24th inst. I took a fine large specimen of 
Sesia Fuciformis hovering over the 
flowers of Ajuga Reptans in the same 
wood. — C harles Healy, 4, Bath Place, 
Haggerston; May 25, 1857. 
Tinea bislrigella. — I yesterday reared 
this from larvae which I collected on the 
2nd of October last, mining birch leaves. 
— R. Cook, 79, Long Weslgate, Scar- 
borough ; May 26, 1857. 
Lithocolletis Vacciniella at Harrow- 
gale.— \ have bred this insect from pup® 
I collected at Harrowgate last month. — 
John Sang, Darlington ; May 26, 1857. 
Ancliylopera subuncana. — I have this 
week bred this insect from the “ vaulted- 
chamber” maker of the oak. — T. Wil- 
kinson, 6, Cliff Bridge Terrace, Scar- 
borough ; May 24, 1857. 
A few Queries icanting Answers . — 
I shall feel greatly obliged if any of 
the readers of the ‘ Intelligencer’ can 
give me information, through the me- 
dium of its pages, respecting the follow- 
ing. As to Helianthemum vulgare, Mr. 
Stainton mentions in his ‘ Entomological 
Botany,’ that in April and July its leaves 
are mined by the reddish larva of La- 
verna Staintoni : in June they are mined 
by a Coleopterous larva. Is it a differ- 
ent larva which is mining the leaves now, 
during May ? I have found a light 
clay-coloured Geometra larva on the 
Helianthemum. I fear it will not live, as 
I had to fight for it with a ferocious ant, 
of which a colony had made their nest in 
the midst of a fine plant of the rock 
rose : no doubt a well-fed larva is a fine 
deer to them. What is the bright green 
insect, having a white substance, like 
wool, hanging in considerable quantity 
from the extremity of its abdomen ? It 
is now abundant on the young shoots of 
box. I may mention that my address is 
now — Rev. S. C. Tress Beale, Alk- 
ham, Dover ; May 25, 1857. 
Phragmatobia Fuliginosa unhoused . — 
On looking into one of my breeding- 
cages one morning lately, I discovered a 
caterpillar of one of the Nocluina forcing 
