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Perhaps the larva is not Lepidopterous ! 
In England it would surely not be neces- 
sary to search long without finding it. 
— Id. [We are disposed to fancy that 
this is the same Coleopterous miner 
we have already observed on Origanum 
vulgare , Teucrium scorodonia, and seve- 
ral other Labiates'). 
Captures near Newnham , Gloucester- 
shire. — During the past week I have 
taken Drepana hamula , Bapta laminaria , 
Melanippe Tristaria, Argynnis Euphro- 
syne , Melilaa Artemis, and a few others. 
In the previous week some friends here 
took in addition P. falcataria and D. 
vnguicula, M. hastaria, &c. On Satur- 
day I captured Em. albularia and hy- 
draria. — S. Bingham, Bank, Newnham ; 
June 1, 1857. 
Cucullia Chamomillce. — This season I 
have taken fifteen of this insect at rest 
during the day on palings. — W. Greg- 
son, Lylham, near Preston ; Jane 3, 
1857. 
Notodonta Carmelita. — On the 17th of 
May I had the pleasure of capturing, at 
West Wickham, a pair of these insects 
in very good condition. The female de- 
posited about thirty eggs, which hatched 
on the 25th, and the larvae are going on 
very favourably. On the 26th I captured 
two dozen Speranza conspicuaria in fine 
condition. — John Sanger, 4, Martha 
Street, Haygerstone ; June 3, 1857. 
Hypercallia Chris tieman a. — P rofessor 
Frey having last week forwarded me, 
from Zurich, some larvae of this little 
beauty, then feeding on Polyyala Cha- 
maebuxus ; I tried them w ith our common 
milkwort ( Polygala vulgaris), which they 
ate readily. Hence there seems no reason 
why we should further hesitate to con- 
sider P. vulgaris the food-plant of our 
British Chris tier nanas. — H.T. Stainton, 
June 3, 1 857. 
Bolys lancealis. — On the 4th instant 
I took, in a wood not far from here, two 
very fine specimens of this insect, and 
had a third in tny net, but, while trying 
to box it, it escaped. Yesterday I caught 
four more B. lancealis, and to-day six: 
they are extremely local, and are only 
found over a space of about a hundred 
yards. — Geuvase F. Mathews, Raleigh 
House, near Barnstaple ; June 6, 1857. 
COLEOPTERA. 
The season is now advancing, and we 
are suddenly launched from spring into 
summer, or at any rale into that neutral 
period between the tw'o, when the beauty 
of the external world may be said to at- 
tain its maximum. Those collectors, 
therefore, who have not yet grasped the 
net, must prepare to do so, or else resign 
themselves to a beetleless fate, whilst the 
goldeu era of our campaign — their great- 
est harvest time — is slipping impercepti- 
bly away. Much can be done early in 
June, and the ants’ nests, which will, ere 
long, be comparatively unproductive, 
may be examined with every prospect of 
success. True, it is, that they have been 
Coleoptera peopled throughout April and 
May, but they are now, perhaps, better 
tenanted than ever; so let our entomolo- 
gical Nimrods take the hint, and sally 
forth to the chase. With respect to the 
locus quo and modus operandi (the 
“ where” and “how” as plain John Bull 
would express it), we must refer our 
readers to that excellent little paper (in 
this year’s ‘Annual’) by Mr. Janson, 
whose well-earned discoveries amongst 
the Myrmecophili have constituted him 
the facile princeps of our anls’-nest in- 
vestigators, — the central sun, around 
which incipient luminaries must, for the 
present, of necessity revolve. Having 
first of all, therefore, armed themselves 
with that memoir, and studied it ad nau- 
seam (which, we may add, is a sine qua 
non), let them betake themselves to some 
profitable part of the country and com- 
mence operations. Chalky and sandy 
