THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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L. iEgeria, 20th April, 
L. Megsra, 18th May, 
P. Argiolus, 8th May, 
P. Alexis, 22nd May, 
A. Euphrosyne, 18th May. 
M. Athalia, 28th May, 
N. Lucina, 20th May, 
T. Alveolus, 13th May, 
T. Tages, 15th May, 
P. Sylvanus, 26ih May, 
T. Rubi, 18th May, 
C. Phlseas, 18th May. 
S. Tiliae, 5th May, 
S. Ligustri, 26th May, 
S. menthastri, 14th May, 
S. lubricipeda, 16tli May, 
F. piniaria, 1 3th May. 
— Rev. Hugh A. Sxowell, Faversham. 
Position of the Skippers in Repose . — 
In the ‘ Manual’ I see Thanaos Tapes 
mentioned as having “ wings in repose 
horizontal;” and certainly when settling 
on flowers or on the ground, in the sun- 
shine, the wings are always kept so. 
But, on the 5th inst., while collecting P. 
Alsus in a chalk-pit, just at sunset (which, 
by the way, is much the best lime for col- 
lecting that species, as they have then 
taken up their quarters for the night, and 
are easily taken while sitting on the grass- 
stems), I saw what I took to be a small 
Noctua resting on a thick stalk of grass. 
On stooping to examine it, 1 found to 
my surprise that it was a specimen of T. 
Tapes, apparently fast asleep, as I tapped 
the grass on which it rested, several 
times, without causing it to move. The 
wings were folded so as to form a roof, as 
in most of the Bornbyces and Noctucc, 
with the upper side outwards; thus fur- 
ther proving the close affinity of the Hes - 
peridae to the moths. 1 pinned the Tages 
just as he was, and, after a slight flutter, 
he settled down into the same position ; 
I afterwards thought that this might be 
an exceptional instance, and that the 
Tages in question might only have been 
trying this position to see whether it was 
a comfortable one to repose in ; but on 
the 8th, in the same chalk-pit, during 
a slight shower of rain, I found another 
in a precisely similar position, and so am 
induced to believe that it must be a regu- 
lar family practice. I find the Pamphila 
Sylvanus (which is now abundant here) 
always reposes with all the wings erect, 
when alarmed at a passing object, in a 
shower of rain, and when resting for the 
night. — Roland Trimen, Dorking, June 
10, 1857. 
Pionea Stramentalis. — In reference to 
the notice that appeared in our columns, 
No. 37, p. 84, Mr. Winter wishes to in- 
form our readers that he has had far 
more applications than he can possibly 
supply or reply to, and that though, if he 
meets with the insect again, he will do 
his best, he cannot promise to supply 
every applicant. 
A crony eta A Ini. — The first fine speci- 
men captured near Sheffield this season, 
on the 16th; the second, on the 19th 
inst., at sugar, by Francis Bradley, 
Secretary to the Sheffield Entomological 
Society , Thompson's Square, Portohello 
Street, Sheffield ; June 20. 
Rearing from the Eggs versus Pupa- 
digging. — It seems certain that insects 
rapidly become scarcer after leaving the 
egg-shell. Of various larvae which I have 
exposed on bushes in my garden hardly 
any appear to have reached maturity: 
birds, spiders, ants, earwigs, tree-bugs 
and ichneumons are too many fur them ; 
but eggs are plentiful ; a female Plu- 
migera will lay you about 130, a Tre- 
pida 250, a N. Dodoncea 140 or more. 
With regard to the time of hatching, 
Mr. Harpur Crewe remarks that last year 
some of these latter hatched in seventeen 
days, while this spring they remained 
nearly a month, the weather being doubt- 
less colder, for I have had them hatch 
after twelve days in warm weather. I do 
not ordinarily put eggs in the sunshine, 
but prefer merely opening the box for 
light, as the time for hatching approaches. 
I have killed some by exposure to the 
