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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Tethea Retusa, 
Epunda Lichenea, 
Hadena Lutulenta (fusca), 
Toxocampa Pastinum, 
Aventia Flexularia, 
Harpalyce Galiaria, 
„ Sagittaria, 
Eupitbecia venosaria. 
— Samuel Hill, 2, Ann’s Place, Wil- 
mington Square, London; August 12. 
Are the Smerinthi double-brooded P — In 
the last week in May a lady sent me eggs 
of S. ocellalus, from a female taken a 
short time before ; the eggs were batched 
during the first week in June. The larvae, 
about thirty in number, fed and went on 
well, except that all lost the caudal horn ; 
it became black and gradually disap- 
peared from the point to the base, leaving 
only a slight, smooth, tubercular promi- 
nence: this process went on through 
more than one change of skin ; in other 
respects they appeared healthy, and went 
under ground during the second and 
third week in July. This morning I was 
surprised at seeing in the glass a fine 
pair of the perfect insects in copula . — 
W. H. Allchin, 7, Pembridge Villas, 
Bayswater ; August 12. 
[We impute the occurrence of the in- 
sects this year to our exceptional summer. 
It is an accident, not a rule.] 
Colias Hyale near Bognor . — I have 
much pleasure in recording the capture 
of a Colias Hyale in a clover-field at 
Nyetimber(a small village, between three 
or four miles from here). I took it yes- 
terday morning, which was the first sea- 
sonable day we have yet had during the 
past week. The country here is as flat as 
a bowling-green, and the absence of all 
open or uncultivated ground (such as 
woods, heaths or downs) renders it rather 
a poor locality for Lepidoptera, and, after 
the picturesque and productive vicinity 
of Dorking, it seems especially dull. I 
had intended to send a most dismal 
account of this locality, but my success 
to-day has somewhat reconciled uie to it. 
A short time before I took the Hyale 1 
captured a fine Edusa in the same field. 
The anxiety evinced by a male Lasio- 
campa Quercus to burrow head-foremost 
into a close-clipped hedge, caused me to 
discover a female just emerged from the 
pupa. Having placed the latter in my 
larva-tin, I procured a number of (ap- 
parently) “ drunk and disorderly ” males, 
which varied considerably in the breadth 
of the yellowish band. I also took a 
Lithosia griseola, several Polyommatus 
Ageslis and a Eupilhecia subf ulvaria ; 
and, in the afternoon, a Cynthia Cardui 
and two Epliyra poraria. The habits of 
the Macroglossa Stellatururn here are 
both curious and uncommon : their grand 
amusement consists in racing up and 
down a stone wall (without anything ap- 
proaching to a flower on or near it), which 
bounds the beach for a considerable dis- 
tance, and frequently stopping short and 
settling on the stones. Sugaring in some 
rough fields near the sea has produced 
nothing but a few A. Rumicis and crowds 
of A. Tragopogonis. In these fields, 
among Ononis spinosa, Slenopteryx hybri- 
dalis is common. I have taken one Ha- 
dena Chenopodii on a fence about a mile 
off, which, by-the-bye, is the only fence 
I can find near here. I intend to revisit 
the clover-field, in hopes of its producing 
more Hyale, and if successful will let you 
kuo w. — Ilo l a n o T u l m e n , Bognor, S ussex ; 
August 1 1 . 
Doings at Sherwood Forest. — With two 
friends (members of the Wakefield Ento- 
mological Society), Mr. W. Talbot and 
Mr. C. Roberts (who, I am happy to say, 
are enthusiasts in Entomology), I paid 
a visit to the above place. After par- 
taking of refreshment at the ancient vil- 
lage of Edwinstow (distant from the 
Forest about half a mile), we got ready 
our tackle, consisting of a large sheet, 
nets, (See. We succeeded in taking the 
following larva:: — Centra bijida and 
vinula , Stauropus Fagi, Notodonla ca- 
melina, zicsac and dodotuca, A. Lcporina , 
